How to Convert iPhone Live Photos to GIFs with Motion Stills

How to convert iPhone Live Photos to GIF with Google Motion Stills

Apple introduced "Alive Photos" equally a flagship feature with the iPhone 6s and nosotros were pretty impressed with the company'south implementation of dynamic pictures. While live photos are indeed very absurd, they can't actually be shared unless you convert them to GIFs. The good news is, Google has simply released a cool new app dubbed Motion Stills, which converts iPhone's live photos to GIFs. Moreover, the app also lets you smooth out whatever shakiness from your live photos. Along with GIF conversion, the app also lets you create a moving picture by combining multiple live photos. Pretty cool, correct?

So, if you own an iPhone 6s, 6s Plus or SE, here's how you tin can convert Alive Photos to GIFs with Google Motion Stills:

Convert Alive Photos to GIFs or Video

1. Firstly, you volition take to install the Move Stills app from the App Store. When you first open the app, you volition exist welcomed with a cool GIF image, afterwards which you will see slides showcasing features of the app.

ii. Once done, the app will prompt you to grant information technology permissions to access your photos. One time yous grant the permission, the app will open up up with all your live photos in tow.

iii. You tin can then simply tap on a live photograph to get the GIF and share it. In the GIF sharing page, y'all tin tap on the Motion Stills icon at the lesser left to stabilize a live photo. You tin can also mute the moving-picture show here or get back via the drop-down button at the bottom correct.

Note : If the Motion Stills icon is "unlocked", the image is already stabilized.

4. To share an prototype, y'all can simply tap on the share button, which will prove you lot options to "Send GIF" and "Share Prune", which shares the live photo as a minor video.

Combine Multiple Live Photos to Create a Movie

1. In the home page of the app, yous can correct swipe a alive photograph to create a new movie or add together images to a picture. You tin can also left swipe on an image to hide it from the app.

2. Once y'all have added the live photos you want in the picture show, you tin but click on the play button to see the movie. If you lot don't similar a particular moving-picture show in the film, you can simply swipe upwards the picture from the bottom bar to remove it. Y'all can hit the cross push at the top left to go back and add more live photos to the movie.

3. If you are content with the movie you lot accept merely created, you tin use the share button to "Upload to YouTube" or just "Share video".

Annotation : The video created from Motility Stills is in the MOV format.

Check out Motion Stills' Settings

To go to the Settings folio of the Movement Stills app, you tin swipe down from the acme to bring downward the Movement Stills welcome view with a settings cog icon. You can but click on the icon to check various app settings.

While there aren't a lot of options to play with, yous tin cancull the GIF quality to be large (640×480), medium (480×360) or minor (320×240). Yous can likewise choose the speed at which the clips are repeated in a GIF. Last but not the to the lowest degree, y'all canturn off Motion Stills watermark on created GIFs.

SEE Likewise: How To Get iPhone's Live Photos Characteristic on Android

Now catechumen all your Live Photos to GIFs

The Move Stills app should make life for iPhone 6s & SE users a lot easier, because we've always wanted to share Live Photos on diverse social media platforms but there wasn't a fashion to do and then. We besides like the fact that Motion Stills besides lets you create movies out of various Alive Photos. Moreover, you can use the app to view all the alive photos in play style, unlike in the Photos app, where you only see a small prune and yous have to utilize 3D touch to play the full clip.

Overall, nosotros are quite impressed with the Movement Stills app and it's no surprise, because it's from Google. Android fans shouldn't feel distressing though, as nosotros can surely expect Google to bring this feature on its own platform shortly. So, what are you waiting for? Go ahead and install the Movement Stills now. Don't forget to let us know your experience with the app in the comments section beneath.