How to embed your videos as a GIF in your blog post

As a newbie to Steemit, it just took me FOREVER to do a blog post because I was trying to figure out how to upload a video without going through YouTube! I realised that I could turn my video into a GIF to add it to my post but after searching all over steemit on how to do this I couldn't find anything so....I've created a step by step tutorial for those who might want to do the same thing!

Step 1

Go to the website https://giphy.com/ and click create

Step 2

This should be the next screen that you see

Step 3

Next drag and drop the video file inside the dotted lines

Step 4

The video should then load

Step 5

Once the video loads you can change the start time, duration or add a caption and once you are happy, click create GIF

Step 6

Next the button will say 'creating your GIF' and a green bar will symbolise it is loading

Step 7

Once the green bar has reached the end and the GIF has been created click 'copy link'

Step 8

The embed code did not work for me! So after lots of trial and error downloading and copying various different links, I realised it was the GIF link you need to copy and paste into your post...and in order to centre it you would just write:
< center >< your GIF link >< /center >

So your GIF should look something like this:

I really hope you find this helpful and this has saved you some time! If it has let me know :)

Till next time! x