Sweet!! That was totally my second choice.

The pain was mostly due to the fact that I thought I had the episode in avi or mpg but instead only had it in rm. This required some rare program that can convert rm files.

So how did you go about it? My method was to import the converted video into Premiere, cut to around the clip that I wanted, and export a GIF but with the video cropped to 65x75. Then it was just a matter of fine tuning it in Jasc's Animation Shop.