Some people give visual appealing answers with a video/gif.
I saw that those link to i.sstatic.net. How can I use that service to automatically transform my blender screencasts (avi jpg) into gifs? If I try to use the site directly I need to provide a link instead of a local file for conversion.
Since stackexchange partnered with imgur (as the above link suggests) there should be an easy way to convert local files to gifs right?
I cannot find it at the moment.
Stack-Exchange does not provide such a service, however some sites online do provide this. One site you could try would be ezgif.com/video-to-gif. This site will let you temporarily upload a video file and convert it to a GIF, which you cn then download and upload to the standard image hosting service that Stack-Exchange uses as a whole. You can also do this for individual images as well.
However, I would strongly discourage making a video or image sequence and then converting it online. You can use a local program like LiceCAP to record directly to an animated GIF file, which can then be easily uploaded directly. To insert them into your question and/or answer you just upload them like a standard image file. Notice that the maximum file size is 2mb.
I'd advise you to just use Youtube videos for video files, especially if your instructions are extensive. Gifs should be for very short, easily remembered actions, such as a clicking a few buttons or so.
