How to Convert Animated GIF Files to AVI (Yes, That Includes Your Pivot Stickfigure Animator GIFs Too!)

Here’s a valid question from a reader. I previously posted the freeware Pivot Stickfigure Animator and and he asks:

“How do you put your Pivot videos on YouTube? Whenever I try it says invalid format. I want to put it on.”

To answer that, first of all, Pivot Stickfigure Animator can only save animation as an animated GIF its native file format, PIV. Both of which are will not be accepted by YouTube. But here’s a work around to do it - you have to convert the animated GIF to a valid video format like AVI.

Now there are a lot of GIF to video file converters out there but I personally use this one - Beneton Movie GIF. It’s not exactly a file converter since it’s an animation tool all by itself but a simple workaround using it can work.

Here’s how:

Save your Pivot Stickfigure Animation as an animated GIF.

Load your GIF sequence into Beneton Movie GIF

Export it as an AVI file

Voila! Now you can upload the video to YouTube.

Word of warning though, exporting your Pivot file to GIF makes it lose quality so you have to consider that.