What is Reddit's opinion of Gfycat?

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http://gfycat.com/SeriousFreeEmperorpenguin <-- I deleted my link; I didn't see this one already existed but here's a better quality one.

e: Even higher quality at another angle: http://gfycat.com/OddDevotedIrishterrier

e2: Here's Thiago being rushed by his team after the final whistle: http://gfycat.com/DefiniteApprehensiveAtlanticspadefish

Pick plays were out of control this game. They really need to either make the rules stricter or enforce it better. The rules are already skewed towards offense and getting blindsided by Welker when you're covering Thomas just isn't fair. They never ever call penalties on it.

edit - this is not a block

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HE STOLE ALL OUR THEORIES AND THEN SHOWED US HOW STUPID AND WRONG THEY WERE! WHYYYY???!

I thought we'd FINALLY find out...

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Item frames are super buggy. When you have one placed with an item in it, exit the game, and then log back into the world. They duplicate. Not just one copy though - HUNDREDS of copies, as well as the item inside being duplicated.

Here's visual representation of what I'm talking about.

Edit: Here's the bug tracker link.

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Worth mentioning that the only Nucks goal should have been waved off due to goalie interference.

edit: here's the &quot;goal&quot; courtesy of /u/Lor-Zod

I wonder if they'll remember us once we're gone? Best enjoyed while listening to something somber from a music box. :P

Full resolution version hosted on gfycat, with a smaller file size. Otherwise you miss a lot of the smaller detail, especially on the dancer.

And, as always, here is a video timelapse of this entry being put together in Photoshop and After Effects.

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Minor bug: If you mouse from one dropdown menu to the other before the menu's display animation is complete, both menus disappear.

Firefox 27, Windows

Here's a video

I'm more of a vanilla Javascript guy, than a JQuery guy, but I'd wager that you're not clearing your interval when firing off a mouseover event, and instead just assuming that it's not currently in use.

Hope this helps! Site looks pretty slick.

Edit: Though you're definitely going to need a more robust server if your website picks up in popularity. That loading time is painful right now.

[](/cadancesmile) Crystals, bitches.

Have a Gfycat mirror.

[](/sp) [](/pinkieawe) EDIT: I--I meant to write 'scenes,' in the title. I didn't mean to-- good god.

I'm keeping it, but wow.

Obvious red. How people can argue that it wasn't is beyond me.

To OP, link to the html 5 video instead. It's a much smaller file, meaning a faster loading time. Remove the 'giant' at the start of the link and the '.gif' at the end. http://gfycat.com/ImpossibleWhichCopperhead

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Never do acrobatics above an evil doctors hidden underground lair!

Some additional links:

Gfycat version; much higher resolution, much smaller file size.

Video time-lapse of this entry being put together in Photoshop and After Effects. I got a little bit carried away with the removal of the guy from the background, as you might be able to tell!

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Funny story: I actually worked for Riot on contract during the Spring Split of the Season 3 LCS, doing match recaps, interviews, and writing player profiles. They made the choice to go to a freelancer-based system by the end of my contract, so it didn't continue.

The main thing is that if I were to do this for LoLeSports they would either need to host 30+mb GIFs (which is unwieldy) or integrate Gfycat (which I use to host my animations) into their site; enterprise-level sites like LoLeSports rarely rely on outside services they don't control (because Gfycat shows ads, etc), and I don't know if Gfycat could scale to the demand of LoLeSports' traffic, considering they're fairly new.

Especially considering that the Saints defenders were celebrating that first hit after it gave the Seahawks a free first down on *third and long

Edit: Here's a gif that shows some of it at the very end

[](/scootaderp) Have some Gfycat mirrors ^(since reddit shadowbanned gfy_bot)! Considering these two are 134 seconds combined, gaining the ability to pause and slide around the timeline would not be a bad idea. (Round 1, Round 2)

Join us next time as we continue to ask the question "How long is too long?"

Here it is ! The album tutorial is ready.

Please upvote this comment so people who are interested in it can see it ;)

Edit : Since the wiring is not very beautiful, you can hide it easily as I did on this .gif. Put some glowstone and carpets on top for the lighting, some stairs on the pistons. Do not cover the dispenser so you can fill it back when it runs out of bonemeal :)

Edit 2 : We are now in a kind of a funny "contest" with clankypants to see how far we can improve the efficiency of these farms :)

I made an HTML 5 gif here so that people that aren't using Alien Blue can see what this gif looks like sped up. I think that you have to click the link to see it sped up if you are using RES.

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Here I made one. Sorry for the poor quality. http://i.imgur.com/KAvZyNx.gif

Better quality: http://gfycat.com/NaughtySkeletalArcticduck

Irrelevant question: Anyone knows what's the best tool to make a high quality gif?

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Quinton Patton.

He's a rookie and missed a bunch of time with a foot injury, but I'm expecting him to make an impact with teams focusing on Anquan and Crabtree. Kap clearly trusts him (see: this throw to set up the game-winning field goal against Arizona) and we can use him in different ways.

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Larger version.

Vagina shot

Another topless shot.

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[](/rdhappy) Credit to /u/JohnSteven for kicking this idea off.

Added with the ending I took from this anonymous suggestion, and I hardly wrote this one at all!

[](/sp) [](/twismile) Also, I've decided not to submit my gifs using gfycat, but I will provide a gfycat mirror. So if it works better for you than 1.8 meg gifs, or you just want a time slider to play with, you can always come to the comments and I will have a gfycat mirror for you.

A user just implemented a gfycat bot, though, so I'm waiting a bit to see if he'll show up...

[](/sp) [](/ppshrug) Edit: Alright, it's not showin' up, so have a gfycat mirror!

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This loaded pretty slow for me so I made a HTML5 version using gfycat.com (which works with RES)

http://gfycat.com/WillingDefinitiveKid

Original GIF size = 2M HTML5 version = 420k

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Using the Hero3+ Black set to 30Fps burst mode.

http://Youtube.com/MarkHawkCam

(short how to) To replicate:

Tell everyone to stay still and either follow the camera or keep their head locked.

Set and take picture at 30fps Burst mode (Black series only)

Import/Render out an animated sequence from Adobe After Effects going from beginning to loop point.

Import into Photoshop as a video.

Save for web and set to forever to loop.

Upload Gifs to http://gfycat.com/

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I couldn't upload to imgur due to the filesize.

I'm sorry for any inconvenience.

EDIT: Uploaded to gfy now

EDIT2: and gfy HTML 5 video tag

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As in why add it? Just to add emphasis to a certain point, make it less plain etc. I do it to most of my gifs:

Example 1

Example 2

Made one with a proper framerate, no normal gif version because loading a 26 mb gif is a pain.

Gfy

I also made a smaller one with less stripes n' shit

Gfy

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Also from the article >Since Fergie managed to turn Paul Pogba off United, Moyes will try to lure Juventus's other inspirational midfielder, Arturo Vidal

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Wow, that's brilliant.

Here's a gfycat version.

Mouse over for controls, including slow-motion. (Well, if you click the link, you can do that. Doesn't work on the inline view, I guess...)

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Robinho, Pazzini and Ferrari also scored for those wondering.

Robinho 1-0

Pazzini 2-0

Ferrari 3-1

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That header outside the box of his was a ballsy-ass move. It looked cool as shit too. If he and Neuer are the future of how goalkeepers play, football is about to become a lot more entertaining.

e: For those who didn't see it live:

Realtime Slow-motion

The thing about HTML5 gifs are that they are not actually gifs, they are more so a video.

Without getting too much into it the reason they run/load so smooth is because they are not individual images being loaded separately by a plug in, they are run form the browser itself using a codec to play segments of a video.

Some info here about the site: http://gfycat.com/about

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you can make quality gifs, way easier than making actual videos, then you put that on gfycat and you get a quality compression: boom, little effort, big success. look at this not football related one i made (in less than a minute with gifcam): http://gfycat.com/WellmadeFlakyAlbino

looks as good as the original flash source

or this one: http://gfycat.com/PastelAllEquine (from Ray Donovan)

it is a bit too small but hey look at the size: 500kb for 20s of watchable live action video, that is progress

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The bucking bronco!

Additionally, here's the full resolution version uploaded at gfycat.

And here is a video timelapse of this entry being put together. See if you can spot where I did a bit of work, only to later discard it when it wasn't working. :P

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tried it out; uploaded a gif i had on imgur.

http://i.imgur.com/ZaxHZZ7.gif

it has a 20:1 compression ratio when uploaded to gfycat, can't really argue against that.

Only problem is that you can't resize on the fly in RES. But that's a small price to pay for the amount of bandwidth saved...

http://gfycat.com/SaltyImpressiveCrocodileskink

And what an odd url...

not sure how it is cheating when it starts out as a gif...

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Solid game after the sleepy start. Kearns and Shep doing so much hard work out there; that's good to see.

And here's Pavelski encouraging Big Brent Burns to get his legs moving. Courtesy of /u/Lor-Zod

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What is with the really weird link names?

Most randomly generated urls look like this:G1XeD4SwlHReDA

We thought it would be fun to do it differently. Our URLs consist of this structure: AdjectiveAdjectiveAnimal This is enough to give us a namespace of billions, while also letting humans write them easier.

Most links are not case sensitive, but if you hotlink to a file on the content delivery network, then it IS case sensitive so make sure you copy and paste the URL from our Links popout exactly.

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pretty easy.

make a 3 (or higher) high "door" made up of blocks (dirt blocks/stone blocks/etc), put actuators on the "door", put pressure plates to the left and the right side of the door, wire the actuators and pressure plates together.

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Yeah, Llama vs Mata has been pretty great in the past few years. If this all goes through, happy for David that he finally has a fellow Spaniard in the team.

Enter gfycat!

>We built gfycat to solve a problem: gifs are awesome... but they suck. They are huge, slow, CPU burning, limited to the color space of 1987, they don't stream, and they can't be interacted with (pause, rewind, speed controls, scrubbing).

In short, GIF is an old format that does not do compression very well, meaning they also end up taking a lot longer to load than most videos.