Create GIFs from YouTube videos: Site adds new tool that lets you easily create and share five-second animations

GIFs have ruled the web during 2014, and it seems this popularity hasn’t gone unnoticed by video behemoth YouTube. A new tool, spotted by Twitter user Andy Baio, lets people create five-second animated clips from uploaded videos. Scroll down for video A new GIF tool has been spotted on YouTube that lets people create five-second animated clips from uploaded videos. On the GIF tab, drag the slider across the clip, or manually input a start and end time, add top and bottom text, and click Create GIF. Other tools include improvements to comment ranking, moderator features to help manage comments and analytics that are easier to understand This site lets you paste a YouTube link and create GIFs between five and fifteen seconds in length.