I have researched easier ways to make gifs but it all insane hacker programs you have to fiddle with for hours to make one gif and then it doesnt work or looks like shit and its actually quicker and better to just past screencaps of each frame into photoshop
that's not true, in fact I'm pretty sure you're the only guy who does it that way
in quicktime it's export > frames as images
also I could be wrong but I think the new photoshop can do this by itself