bomi is a multimedia player that has powerful functions and a very neat interface. But the application goes one step further and has the feature to create animated GIFs from video. Simply select all or part of a video (that you play with bomi) and in a few steps convert it to an animated GIF.
Once you download the application from its official page, you will see that the tool consumes very few system resources and you can appreciate its neat interface. The player supports drag and drop, and you can open both audio and videos in formats such as 3GP, FLAC, M4V, MPEG, M4A, AAC, FLV, AIFF, AVI, PNG, BMP, JPEG, JPG, DIVX, ASF, GIF, BMP, DAT, IPC, WMV, ASF, MOV, MP4, OGG, WMA, WAV, TIFF, etc.
To access the platform's options, you have to right-click on the player, and from the context menu you can manipulate playback options (speed, pause, etc.), video options (color range, texture, etc.), and subtitle options, among other features.
Creating animated GIFs
To convert a video or part of it into an animated GIF, you can go to the options by clicking on “Video”, “Make Video Clip” and select “Advanced…”, or via the shortcut “Ctrl+Shift+C”.
Now you can customize the output format, the loop time range, the size, include subtitles, rotate and crop the video, modify the scale, frames per second, and audio and video codecs, among other functions.
Surely at the beginning of the note or when reading the title you thought Neoteo recommends one of the thousands of multimedia players that exist on the market, but by the end of the note you can realize that the environment has features that distinguish it from the rest of the utilities, and most importantly it plays almost all audio and video formats.
bomi is a free application available for Windows and Linux.
