New to making GIFs?

A GIF isn't compressed video — it's a sequence of individual frames capped at 256 colors each, with no audio track at all, which is exactly why frame rate, trim length, and crop hit its file size so differently than they would for a video. Here's what's actually happening under the hood, and how to pick settings that hold up.

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