rlugojr / giffler

Convert video to gifs... good gifs.

Video to Gif

I was tired of programs that would crash with more than 300 frames and online tools with absurd restrictions in terms of fps and length... Like gfycat.
So much 💩

In comes giffler

In its current form, Giffler is command line tool that converts most video formats (anything supported by ffmpeg) to gif files without compromising on quality. Output gifs are not as huge as you might think, ImageMagick's convert has some incredible optimization algorithms.

60 fps 3% fuzz, dithering on: giffler --input bunny.mp4 --fps 60

installation

npm install -g giffler

It has no dependencies on Windows.
Linux and Mac users need to have ffmpeg and ImageMagick's convert installed.

Converting video to gifs

Creates vid.mp4.gif in the current directory:

giffler --input vid.mp4

Prints full documentation:

giffler --help

FAQ

• How to edit/crop/cut/shorten?
  Do that before using giffler, I like HandBrake.

• Found a problem of any kind?
  Open an issue on github! 😄

• Isn't this just a wrapper around other tools?
  Yes. You could spend a day figuring out how to get everything working and which parameters are optimal, or just run npm install -g giffler. The choice is yours.

© 2015 Andrea Stella, ISC license.

Uses ffmpeg - ffmpeg.org
Uses ImageMagick - imagemagick.org