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Uploaded: 2023-07-16T20:30:02.000Z
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Taking advantage of the community feature  on YouTube can be a great way to increase  

your subscriber engagement. And it's a  really great place to get more clicks to  

your videos from your subscribers. And one  of the best ways to do that is to make the  

images that you share in your community  posts animated or to post Jif images.

And there are countless ways that you  can create gif images very easily for  

your videos. And in this video I'm gonna  show you a few of my favorite ways. And  

how you can do it very easily using Canva  Pro. So let's get right to it. Homepage,  

Canva. Let's click on create design custom  size, and we'll do 1000 by 1000 pixels.

Community posts work really well as squares,  

so the easiest way to create a GIF would  be to use one from Jiffy, and Canva has  

a Jiffy integration along the left hand side.  If we click on apps, we can scroll down until  

we find Jiffy. And here you can search for any  gifs that you want and you can resize the gif.

You could even add your own text to the GIF here.  So if you had a caption that you wanted to add,  

and this can be a really quick, instant  way to get some clicks and spark some  

curiosity on your community post. When  people are on their YouTube homepage  

and they start scrolling through  videos to decide what to watch,  

that is where you're gonna see community  posts pop up from people you subscribe to.

All you would have to do once you're ready is  say, share. Download and choose Jif short clip,  

no sound, and then that Jif will work as an image  that you can upload as a community post. But let's  

have some fun and take it up even a notch from  that. And I'll show you what I typically do for  

our pod sound school videos as part of my workflow  to make a really quick community post animation.

So with this. Video that we just released on our  channel. I have already designed a thumbnail. In  

fact, I already designed two thumbnails because  I like to ab two different thumbnails on our  

YouTube videos. So if I wanted to keep these same  graphics, the pictures, and all of the different  

layers and design work that went into these  designs, I could use these and just animate 'em  

by just resizing this design and resizing it to a  thousand by a thousand and say, copy and resize.

So now things will need to be resized or even  moved around. And then we can create multiple  

pages and create our own custom animation. And  that could be very simple. It doesn't have to  

be anything complex to really catch people's  attention. So let's actually. Go with this one  

here, and what I'm gonna do is first try to make  all of this fit a little better on this square.

So we've now changed a single design  to this. So now let's just duplicate  

this page by clicking on the duplicate  page icon, and we'll do that four times  

and let's make four. Subtly different  designs. One thing we could do is just  

grab me and say Flip horizontally and then kind  of move me around and we can do that again.

But this time when we flip me horizontally,  we'll change my positioning even more and  

maybe even zoom me up a little bit.  And then we can do is come down here  

and click on this show pages arrow to see  the pages and click on duration. And you'll  

see that each one of these is set to five  seconds. Now that's gonna be way too long.

So if we come to the first page, again, we  can edit the timing by clicking this clock  

right here, and we can change the  timing to 0.5 or half of a second,  

and then click on apply to all four pages. Now if  I press play here, you can watch the animation.

You could also come in here to grid view.  Highlight all four of these and duplicate  

them a few times by pressing command or control  D for duplicate. And then you would have a video  

that plays for longer. So you could also do  this if you wanted to export a video as an mp4,  

maybe to share as an Instagram  reel or even as an Instagram post.

And so now just a matter of moments. I was able  to take a YouTube thumbnail and repurpose it  

into an animated GIF for a community post,  and maybe even for an Instagram MP4 video,  

I would just download it here either as an  MP4 for Instagram or a GIF for the community  

post. And here you can also increase the size  of the gif since this is only a few pages.

Let's see if we can increase it all the way  to 1400. And I'll say download. And look,  

we're gonna have a really fun gif. That will  show up when people are scrolling and spark  

some interest. What is that? We don't  actually see a lot of gifs on YouTube,  

so currently it's a really fun way to  make your channel stand out even more.

And lastly, a really common thing that we do  at the Pod Sound School for our gifs is we  

repurpose our thumbnail photo shoots.  So when you're making YouTube videos,  

it's probably part of your workflow  to, at the very end of the video,  

snap a couple photos. For your thumbnail  cover. Cause it only takes a few moments  

and we always ensure that we have some fresh  photos that will work with each new video.

So again, if I say create design, custom size,  a thousand by a thousand, and I just look at  

our recent photo shoots that we've done, like  this recent photo shoot we did for Veronica,  

for example. You can just click and drag  this. Into place now where things can get  

a little tricky is if you want  to move the positioning around.

So I can move this around and I will  usually try to use the grid lines. So  

over here you'd want to find something in  the design that isn't gonna move like her  

face as your point of reference. So  here what I could do is just kind of  

cut the last S of this PSS in half. With  that top left line and then say, done.

And this way when I drag new images into  each new page, I can click on it and make  

sure that that half of that s is gonna be  cut off. It doesn't have to be perfect,  

but as long as we get it close, it'll  really help the animation to look fun.  

So we can do this as well. Let's throw one more  in there and half of the S is cut off as well.

Okay. And now again, we can click on that  show pages arrow down here. Duration. We'll  

want to go to this first design and put it  to a timing of 0.5 seconds. Apply that to  

all the pages and then we can see what our  little Jiff animation looks like. And again,  

if you wanted to include some text here, you  can add anything you want to these as well too.

And now we can command see this.  Did you hear the news? And paste  

it into all of the other pictures as  well. And now you have a really cool  

gif. As a gif. This will work on its own  with just these four pictures, but if you  

wanted to make an MP4 video for Instagram,  you know that each image is half a second.

So if you want a ten second video, then you're  going to need 20 images. So you can come up here,  

highlight all four of these, and duplicate them by  pressing command or control D until you have about  

20 pictures. And now we'll have a ten second video  that we can export as an MP4 for uh Instagram  

post. And so there's lots of fun ways that you can  repurpose your existing graphics, your thumbnails,  

or even gifs from Jiffy to add a little extra  flare and spark some curiosity on your videos.

So hopefully you found this video helpful, and  if you're really wanting to take your graphic  

design to the next level, maybe you're a social  media manager who wants to wow your clients with  

impressive graphics, or you are an online  business owner who wants to. Take control  

of your own graphics. We are developing a really  exciting program that we're calling Design Lab.

And if you want to get on the wait list  for that program, you can go to pod sound  

school.com/design lab. We're gonna be offering  some really fun perks and teasers for those  

who sign up for the wait list. And if you're  feeling really ambitious and you wanna see how  

you can use Canva together with Photoshop  to unlock even more design possibilities.

Check out this video right here where I show  you how I filled the text with an image,  

much like you saw in the thumbnail of this video.  

You're gonna love it. It's a really  fun one, and I'll see you over there.