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Maybe this isn't the place for it.
But I have been wanting to create gifs from a lot of sauces lately. Every time I see something funny or sexy or worth capturing a few frames of, I wish I could make it into a gif.

I can capture any media and get it into avi format. But what is a good process to convert it to gif? When I try to make gifs, no matter the quality or number of frames, they turn out entirely too large. When comparatively gifs from /gif/ are sometimes better quality, more frames, and a fraction of the size.
I've tried searching around for some decent, free gif making software and tutorials on how to /gif/, but I haven't come up with anything useful.
Does anyone know of good free software and how to make quality gifs?
/Gif/ is nothing but fail and repost usually, and I would like to try to contribute some original content when I can.

tl;dr
someone teach me how to make gifs
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Hey guys, I think there's something wrong with all of these gifs. For some reason they keep repeating over and over, in an infinite loop.

Please fix them
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-Get virtualdub
-Learn to extract image sequences in .bmp format using Vdub.
-Get jasc animation shop.
-Use the animation wizard to plug in the numbered .bmp image sequence created by Vdub.
-Edit for optimum size, lulz and fap.
-Share.

Example of work done by this method is attached.
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Thank you
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*daps*