What is used to create animated screenshots (as seen on atom packages)

Question

More and more I'm seeing apis or plugins pages with animated gifs, for example the atom packages seem to do that a lot.

See https://atom.io/packages/terminal-status or https://atom.io/packages/mocha-test-runner)

So what tools and workflow is being used to create this animated gifs? (last time I tried it, was quite an heavy process)

Answer 1

I found the answer in the Atom Discuss list What gif creator is atom team using?

They seem to use http://www.cockos.com/licecap