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giffify

Life is too short for crappy GIFs

A two-pass, high quality video-to-animated-GIF converter script that harnesses ffmpeg to do the dirty work. Works on both Linux and macOS.

Setup and usage

Copy the version you prefer (Python or Bash) to your computer, and make it executable. For example:

$ chmod a+x giffify.py

Make sure you have installed ffmpeg and you have it on your PATH. Easiest way is to use a package manager. On macOS, for example, using Homebrew:

$ brew install ffmpeg

Then simply use it to convert movies. It can be as simple as:

$ giffify.py my-video.mp4

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Duration and End Time options don't accept hours or minutes

So running giffify.py -h returns:

optional arguments:
  # [...]
  -s START_TIME, --start-time START_TIME
                        Start timestamp, as [-][HH:]MM:SS[.m...] or
                        [-]S+[.m...]
  -e END_TIME, --end-time END_TIME
                        End timestamp, as [-][HH:]MM:SS[.m...] or
                        [-]S+[.m...]. Overridden by -d
  -d DURATION, --duration DURATION
                        Duration, as [-][HH:]MM:SS[.m...] or [-]S+[.m...].
                        Overrides -e

but if you actually try to use any of these options with a time that contains HH:MM or MM an error gets thrown:

~/Desktop  $ giffify.py -s 00:10 test.gif -o out.gif
usage: giffify.py [-h] [-o OUTFILE] [-dw DESIRED_WIDTH] [-dh DESIRED_HEIGHT]
                  [-fps FPS] [-s START_TIME] [-e END_TIME] [-d DURATION]
                  video
giffify.py: error: argument -s/--start-time: invalid int value: '00:10'

This happens both if you use HH:MM:SS and MM:SS and happens for start time, end time and duration.

It works fine if you pass just the seconds

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