I’m trying to learn how to make an animated gif from a video clip, I’m using the Gimp plus the Gimp animation package. Any help would be much appreciated, or if you know of any online tutorials please leave them here. Thanks in advance 
Take a look at this:
http://gimpology.com/submission/view/how_to_from_video_to_gif_with_g_a_p/
Also, A great place to find and ask for tutorials/help is:
http://www.gimptalk.com/
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