Show your projects in motion with animated GIFs

Re:Show your projects in motion with animated GIFs by weichsel on Saturday June 30, 2018 @03:25AM (#17429876)

While Animated GIFs are very inefficient by todays standards, they still have several advantages over all modern video formats:

  - GIF lacks audio support so it's guaranteed to be silent
  - The crappy compression forces creators to keep their clips short
  - GIFs can often be uploaded/attached on platforms that only support images but no video for some reason 
    (like GitHub issues for instance)

Some of those features are actually limitations but IMO there are a lot of use cases for a format that sits between still images and full blown video.

I maintain a screen recording app for macOS that has a very efficient aGIF exporter: https://www.peakstep.com/claquette/

The GIFs on the product page are between 130 and 400 KB.

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Re:Show your projects in motion with animated GIFs by devwastaken on Saturday June 30, 2018 @02:32PM (#17432040)

Lacking a feature that can just be disabled by the platform isn't really an advantage. I don't know why forcing things to be short by risk of large files is a good thing. Sharing gifs in image platforms is easier but the bandwidth skyrockets and is not an efficient way to communicate information. Platforms should be implimenting video support, not saying 'x platforms don't do it so we shouldnt'. The social media world has already solved the issue, why can't these sites.

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Re:Show your projects in motion with animated GIFs by jonny_eh on Sunday July 01, 2018 @11:24AM (#17435933)

https://cloudinary.com/blog/evolution_of_img_gif_without_the...

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