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It’s only available on the PBS Idea Channel, and you’re limited to five-second animated nuggets, but YouTube is flirting heavily with the GIF. Hidden in the “Share” tools for that PBS channel, there’s a “GIF” tab that lets you set in- and out-points for a video. You can also type upper- and lower-third text that appears as an overlay (in Impact font, of course).
The end result is an animated GIF hosted on YouTube’s servers, available as both a standalone YouTube link or as an iframe embed. Like all GIFs, they don’t appear as in-line animations on Twitter, but here’s what they look like as an embed. Clicking the GIF will bring you to the full video on YouTube.
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