I write this as a practicing doctor in the UK. The knowledge of English doctors is pathetic.
Itās good to hear that you at least have good self-awareness!
I believe that Portugal, a small country, has been a pioneer and leader in Europe in liver transplants, being one of the countries with the most transplants per million inhabitants, and also one of the pioneering countries in Europe in adopting innovative techniques such as robotic transplantation.
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Only that I came here from Germany and Iām not English.
Then I assume Portugal is operating based on assumed consent regarding organ donation? Itās a shame that politicians donāt have the balls to establish that princinciple here in Germany.
My mother died from cancer, and when her liver failed to work properly, the toxins in her blood also caused a dementia like state. We all have to die, eventually, but if yo can avoid it, the liver is not the organ you want to die from.
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I guess you have no idea that advanced Cirrhosis of the liver is a terminal disease and as such can not be reversed. This patent was a alā¦coholic and when he 1st came in was already terminal.
Hi folks,
I have a question:
Whatās the point of recording high-quality Full HD videos and then converting them into GIFs with small images, poor quality, and 30 times the file size?
Not only is a 10-second GIF at 400x400 a whopping 30 MB in size, which would only take less than 1 MB for a video of that size and quality, but it loads immediately when you scroll to the post.
Soā¦why make GIFs?
Because the user doesnāt have to click to see it? Seriously?
I would appreciate a serious answer, as I just canāt think of a reason 
Thanks 
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I can only speak for myself, but there are moments that are too short for a video, or even more impressive when extended into an endless loop, or contain a scene that would have to be watched multiple times to understand anyway.
Thatās the moment where I prefer to create a gif, especially if itās just a small section of the image.
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There are moments, usually very short, 2-3 seconds letās say, when a GIF is a lot more suitable than a record.
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You are right about GIFs being a ridiculousy inefficient file format. Personally I try to make my GIFs not much bigger than 20 Mb. I think with todayās connections speeds and capacities that doesnāt put too much of a strain on the servers. But, compared to the tiny little snippet of video containd within, the file sizes are beyond good and evil.
Thereāe several things I enjoy about making GIFs.
And yes, the fact that they play automatically is one part of it.
Itās a challenge to find the little special, sexy, funny or just beautiful moments in the hours and hours of bland webcam footage. And then, if you have found such a moment, you want to present it in the best possible way. For me itās very much about the right framing. For the most part, the full-format wide-angle imagery of VHTV cams is just aesthetically unappealing. Which aspect ratio is the best to show this moment in a nice image composition? How close exactly do I want to zoom in? Which body parts do I want to include in the image, which can I do without? Maybe rotate the image a few degrees so it fits the frame better? Touch up the colors, add some more contrast or saturation? And so on and so on.
And one more challenge, when the opportunity presents itself, I like to make a more or less seamless contiuous loop. Often the most time consuming part is to find the exact best frames to start and end the loop.
But it is not that time consuming. Formatting a gif takes maybe a couple of minutes. I used to do much more complex video edits which often enough took me several evenings to edit one video. These days I find it hard to muster the enthusiasm for bigger video editing projects.
A GIF is just a quickie on the side.
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Thanks for even answering.
But the arguments donāt convince me enough to create GIFs myself, because the advantages of video are far more compelling.
Even if itās only 5 seconds, I can just as easily zoom in and define areas for a suitable format, e.g., 360x480, and set the appropriate quality, e.g., 500 kbps or so, and I can make the moment funnier or more emotional with suitable audio.
Multiple cameras of the same moment side by side at the same time are just as easy to do.
And the stream player also has a loop function.
Additionally, the viewer can save individual frames from the video.
And for shorter thingsā¦ to post 3 to 9 images for a special moment, maybe several sections in one image, are the better option for me.
But thanks again anyway.
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Everyone has their own preferences.
And thatās what makes it exciting, I think.
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JMO, but the BEST possible way to present any moving picture is with a video. If for no other reasons than quality and file size, a video ALWAYS beats out a GIF. GIFs are so last decade.
Enormous file sizes, takes forever to load, 256 colors, no audio, horrible, horrible quality in almost every case, etc. Sooo last century, literally.
In more than 4 years on this forum, Iāve seen one GIF that rivaled the quality of a video. It was posted by Jawis in the photo editing topic. It didnāt solve the file size problem, but the quality was unmatched for a GIF.
Again, JMO.
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even last millennium 
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Quality is not really the deciding factor here, and our source naterial is not of great image quality to begin with, anyway.
Through their looping nature GIFs offer themselves to get creative with short clips in some ways that videos are not good at. Who enjoys watching a 5 second video?
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Iām not saying anything against videos, in fact Iāve done my fair share of trying to elevate VHTV footage through video editing. GIFs are just a somewhat different creative medium. It may bot be for everybody, just as I donāt have much interest in editing still photography.
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Quality should ALWAYS be the deciding factor, the number one, top deciding factor for any type of media.
Danny Boyle shot 28 Years Later on an iPhone. He could have used much better cameras, it was a creative decision. Itās a very good movie.
Gracious dressed up dancing. I am impressed. 
There are quite some norwegian artists for example, in this case singers, that produces quite a lot of creative youtube videos and so on. Only by using their mobile phone in that process and nothing else. 
Iāve heard of people doing that. An iPhone has pretty decent cameras.