Skip the first 10 seconds of the video and make a 5 second gifĪdd -ss 10 and -t 5 to the ffmpeg command. - layers Optimize - : optimizes the resulting gif greatly reduces file size especially if the frames have a lot of similar images (e.g.-delay : specify the pause between frames I make this equal to -r option in ffmpeg.-vf scale=n:-1:flags=lanczos : I add this to the ffmpeg command when I want to force the gif to be a different resolution than the source video while keeping the quality high, n = frame width.-r : set the frame rate I make this equal to -delay option in convert.-t : duration specify the length of gif to create.-ss : start time offset specify the time of the video to start extracting the frames/creating the gif.You can check the help or man pages of ffmpeg and convert for more details about the available options but here are a few that I’ve found to be the most useful. Ffmpeg -i -r 10 -f image2pipe -vcodec ppm - | convert -delay 10 -loop 0 -layers Optimize.
theres a bug in the convert routine which can in some versions give a segmentation fault when converting a number of JPEG files to one PDF file.
What is your solution of choice to convert MPEG/AVI video files into animated GIF files? convert ani.gif -coalesce ani.png ffmpeg -f image2 -i ani-d.png ani.mpg -vb 20M prores ffmpeg -i aya-mpeg4.mov -c. We can use ImageMagick convert command: convert -loop 0 -layers Optimize out.gif outloop.gifįor Windows, there is the following software that looks promising for achieving our objective: Movie to animated GIF converterįor Mac OSX, here is an example of a commercial software that offers to do what we want: Xilisoft Video Snapshot for Mac Here, we are seeking to the 13 seconds position and set the duration of the segment to 9 seconds.įinally, perhaps you want your animated gif playing in an infinite loop. For this you can do, for example: ffmpeg -i source.mpg -ss 00:00:13 -t 00:00:09 out.mpg If your final gif file is still too large, an option may be to select only one segment of your original MPEG file to convert it into an animated gif. Here is where we can use ImageMagick to reduce its size using convert -layers Optimize output.gif output_optimized.gif Where it’s indicated, otherwise you may get an Option pixel_format not foundĪt this point you may have ended with a fairly large GIF file. You can do what it’s suggested and re-run the last command like this ffmpeg -i video_origin.avi -pix_fmt rgb24 gif_anime.gif Now, if you get the following error after the last step ERROR: gif only handles the rgb24 pixel format. Ubuntu) you can use the FFMPEG and ImageMagick tools to do the following:Ĭonvert an MPEG file into an AVI file ffmpeg -i video_origin.mpg video_final.aviĬonvert an AVI file into an animated GIF file ffmpeg -i video_origin.avi gif_anime.gif Today a friend asked me how to convert an MPEG video file into an animated GIF file and I would like to share here our findings.
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