Simplest way to create animated GIFs for this forum?

ComplexPoint · December 7, 2016, 4:12pm

Or, for those who like to keep it natural

(Quicktime to gif, with bash tools)

gist.github.com

https://gist.github.com/dergachev/4627207

GIF-Screencast-OSX.md

# OS X Screencast to animated GIF

This gist shows how to create a GIF screencast using only free OS X tools: *QuickTime, ffmpeg, and gifsicle*.

![Screencapture GIF](http://dl-web.dropbox.com/u/29440342/screenshots/OBDHSF-KJDFKJS-screencapture.gif)

## Instructions

To capture the video (filesize: 19MB), using the free "QuickTime Player" application:

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Performance-vs-quality.md

# GIF-Screencast-OSX performance testing

I was disappointed with the color and quality that ffmpeg's GIF conversion gives.
Imagemagick's convert can also be used to do the conversion, though this has serious performance penalties.

The following details my experiments of converting a 3.8 second movie to a GIF.

## FFMPEG to PNG -> CONVERT to GIF individually

 * 42 seconds in CONVERT, did not determine file size

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( could be wrapped up in a custom Keyboard Maestro plugin ? )

Simplest way to create animated GIFs for this forum?

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