Easily create animated GIFs from video via ffmpeg
I recently explained how I captured a series of screenshots and turned them into a movie. While I was working on my tweet about the write-up, I thought an animated GIF of the final movie would be a nice way to show what it was I was trying to do. So that's what I wound up doing:
To create the demo movie on Time Sink's web page, I used a looping Keyboard Maestro macro, ffmpeg, and @ScreenFlow. https://t.co/uGfUkEhFMU pic.twitter.com/iy67d0lPq9
— Rob Griffiths (@rgriff) January 19, 2017
So how did I create the animated GIF from the movie file? I know there are any number of great apps that will do this (ScreenFlow, for one), but I had another thought: While working on the animated screenshot movie (which I created using ffmpeg), I had happened to read about ffmpeg's ability to create high quality animated GIFs, so I thought I'd give that a try.