High quality GIF with FFmpeg

Re:High quality GIF with FFmpeg by artursapek on Monday March 16, 2015 @02:10PM (#9213175)

I use this shell script for generating gifs out of .mov files: https://gist.github.com/artursapek/5b3d15ecac5ff75593c4

I can probably improve it further by using some of what's in this article, but it's already faster and better than any online tool I've found.

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Re:High quality GIF with FFmpeg by sorenjan on Monday March 16, 2015 @02:48PM (#9213425)

You can pipe the frames from FFmpeg to convert to avoid temporary files. http://superuser.com/a/730389

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Re:High quality GIF with FFmpeg by artursapek on Monday March 16, 2015 @03:37PM (#9213793)

Neat! Unix pipes are amazing. Thanks.

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Re:High quality GIF with FFmpeg by ux on Monday March 16, 2015 @03:14PM (#9213616)

> (convert -delay 5 -loop 0 $tmp_dir/ffout*.png $2) >& /dev/null

So using ImageMagick for this... How is this memory wise BTW? (all frames are in memory at once or not?)

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Re:High quality GIF with FFmpeg by bigboat on Monday March 16, 2015 @09:12PM (#9215679)

Yes, all frames will be in memory prior to making the GIF. Probably fine for most GIFs, but if you want to go FFmpeg | ImageMagick | FFmpeg for processing a video, or maybe for a longer GIF, you can use this script to keep only a frame at a time in memory: http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/scripts/process_ppm_pipelin...

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Re:High quality GIF with FFmpeg by artursapek on Monday March 16, 2015 @03:36PM (#9213788)

Not sure, actually. Never had it be enough of a resource hog to even think about it.

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