# What do you use to make animated/gif instructions?

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**Created:** [9월 3, 2018, 5:19오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-do-you-use-to-make-animated-gif-instructions/96276 "2018-09-03T17:19:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mittineague](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mittineague/32/114259_2.png) [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)\
**Post date:** [9월 3, 2018, 10:27오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-do-you-use-to-make-animated-gif-instructions/96276/6 "2018-09-03T22:27:13Z")

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For simple animated screen captures I’ve used LICEcap. I’ve not used any others so I have nothing to compare it to. It isn’t something I would expect many members to be interested in doing, but it would be worth trying if the goal is to provide visuals for “how to use the Discourse GUI” tutorials.

EDIT  
here’s a crude first try example

 ![animated-discourse](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/b/c/bc05e9938427e033a4d12f5776a6198f821b80d8.gif)

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