Today we will take a few minutes to experiment with skills helpful to the animated GIF project. Before getting started, you will need to make sure to have the Snagit free trial downloaded and installed. You will next need to identify a video clip that will be a good candidate for an animated GIF. For this experiment, you can use one of these samples:

Today we will work online to prepare for our animated GIF and Instagram stories activities. Here are the tasks:

Use Adobe Creative Cloud to download Adobe Premiere RUSH.

From the Home screen of Adobe RUSH, use the Learn option to watch several tutorials to get the feel for the program.

Next, download and install the trial version of Snagit. 

We will use RUSH and Snagit for the next two weeks for our composing.