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DARLING, I (2025) dir. Tyler Okonma

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AYO EDEBIRI in DARLING, I Tyler, The Creator ★ 2025

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DARLING, I (2025) dir. Tyler Okonma

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Believe me, nothing is trivial.

Brandon Lee as Eric Draven THE CROW (1994) dir. Alex Proyas

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Summer in movies:

Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (2018) filmed in Croatia, on the island of Vis, in the heart of the Adriatic Sea.

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OCEAN’S ELEVEN (2001) Dir. Steven Soderbergh

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TOP GUN: MAVERICK 2022 dir. Joseph Kosinski

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Carol (2015) dir. Todd Haynes

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Have you ever struggled with your cropping decisions because the scene you were giffing from had too much movement? There's a quick and easy fix for that! 💜 key frames 💜

This is hardly a tutorial, but rather a tip post for gifmakers who never thought to do this before (because really this is beginner-type stuff) but it's actually life-changing if you haven't.

In my first example above, Katherine is in the same center starting point in the beginning in both gifs, but in the original footage, she drifts off out of frame with this crop.

Most of you have worked with key frames in timeline before so I'm not explaining the in-depth details of that here but, did you know... you can use key frames on your gif layer to stabilize panning and keep your subjects centered?

This especially comes in handy when you're trying to make big gifs, or gif from footage with a wide aspect ratio, but you don't want a wide aspect crop.

So onto my quick examples of the gist of it:

The original set I made featured large gifs of thizzy going at it but the only way to achieve giffing this scene in these dimensions was to key frame the layers because they moved out of frame a lot with this close up kiss.

👆 These are the same exact gif but the second one has key frames that center the focal point:

Transform is your buddy for this. Each key frame is an adjustment to the movement of the document from side to side.

So taking a look at this wide aspect crop:

In this shot, Natalie is far left and then slowly the camera pans to center her, but what if we wanted a big gif of her in this scene with a 1:1 crop?

Imagine this doesn't do it for you, let's center her. To do this, place your first frame at the point right before the camera starts to pan left, and the last one where it stops panning (if it doesn't stop panning, the last key frame would just be placed at the very end of your gif).

For the second key frame, click and drag with the move tool, or use your keyboard arrows to skew the document until she's centered. And result:

If you're working with something that jerks back and forth or pans quickly, you're going to have trouble centering the subject it in a way that looks natural, as more key frames would have to be used and they would have to be closer together which can quickly start looking messy like this example of Sinners (click to see bigger).

Obviously the original (left) is fine and doesn't require this because he's still very much in frame anyway but for scenes like this, key frame at your own discretion.

Additionally, you could create a pan where there is none and an example of when this might be helpful is when you are overlaying two+ gifs that just don't sit exactly right together, so you can experiment with that.

That's it, just wanted to put this out here as a concept although it's so simple because it saves my sets occasionally and I hope it helps someone.

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Reservoir Dogs 1992 | Quentin Tarantino

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— BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN (2005) dir. Ang Lee — CAROL (2015) dir. Todd Haynes

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Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios (1988) dir. Pedro Almodóvar

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THE MUMMY RETURNS 2001, dir. Stephen Sommers

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“Everything you see. Everything you know. The world, Chuck. Planes in the sky, manhole covers in the street. Every year that you live, that world inside your head will get bigger and brighter and more detailed and complex. You will build cities and countries and continents, and you will fill them with people and faces, real and imagined. You fill the whole thing with everyone you ever meet, everyone you ever know, everyone you ever just imagine. It'll be a universe. A whole universe right between my hands. You contain multitudes.” THE LIFE OF CHUCK (2024) dir. Mike Flanagan

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Pride & Prejudice (2005) dir. Joe Wright

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One year since Alien: Romulus (August 2024)

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Jaws 1975 | Steven Spielberg