#gifski

[alittlequirkygirl2]

IMPORTANT MESSAGE: HIS TAILS WAG WHEN HE SEES COSMO

I REPEAT

HIS TAILS WAG WHEN HE SEES COSMO

Gif created by using LosslessCut to cut out the clip, Handbrake to detelecine and encode as h.264 at 24 fps, and finally Gifski to create the gif.

[doraemonfanclub]

Doraemon exercising with his gadgets.

[goodgifswithfreetoolschallenge]

TUTORIAL 2

Giphy Capture and Gifski

FULL TUTORIALS | EASY NON-RECOLORED GIFS

This tutorial is Mac only unfortunately, but is for the girlies who hate steep learning curves, don't want to recolor, and don't want to touch a command line with a 10-foot pole. It is wickedly easy and can produce great results for non-recolored sets.

Interface: Graphic User (GUI)

Needed software: Giphy Capture and Gifski (GUI version)

Operating systems: Mac

Time: 7 minutes for the 2 gif set (below)

Difficulty: Easy

Input: ANY video you can screencapture.

LIMITATIONS: 1 Mac only. 2) No recoloring. 3) Captions are limited in size, color, and font (but should generally be sufficient even for longer captions). 4) Since you are screen-capturing video, the quality of your recordings will be limited by the physical size and resolution of your computer screen. 5) You cannot crop after screen-capturing. You have to adjust your screencapture window to the aspect ratio you want your gifs to have.

1. Installation

You can get Gifski (GUI version) and Giphy Capture in the Apple App store.

2. Screen Capturing

When you first open Giphy Capture this screen capture screen should appear:

Open the video you want to screen capture, and make it as large as possible on your screen for the best quality!!!

If you want to make a square set, or a 3:2 set, adjust the size of the screencapturing box accordingly. You can't crop a capture to a different shape after recording.

In my example, since I only want a close up on Dean, and I want it to be square, I will reposition the box and drag the bottom right edge to resize this box as needed.

It's difficult to see in the above image, but there is a box in the bottom right of the green screen that tells me the exact pixel x pixel size of my capture screen so I can drag it until I get a precise screen ratio. In my case, the largest I can screencapture my square set (due to limitations of the physical size of my laptop's screen) is 850 x 850 px, so that's the dimensions I will adjust to.

Minimizing your screencapture screen will retain its shape. Minimize it then start the video you want to record a little before the point where you want to start recording, then press play, and quickly un-minimize your Giphy Capture window so it is on top of the window you want to record and hit the red button to start screen capturing.

You can record for only 30 seconds at a time, but Giphy Capture will save hundreds of 30-second successive screencaptures. You'll see them as thumbnails you can open in the bottom of your screen capture screen.

3. Cut into clips and caption

Once you have captured all of the sections of your video you want and are happy with the size and how the shots are framed, it's time cut your 30-second recording into clips representing each gif, and caption them one by one (you can make multiple gifs from the same capture).

Click on the thumbnail of your capture and a new box will open. Here, you can trim your recording and caption it.

Trim the recording by adjusting the ends of the purple bar.

Note: I recommend you not let the length of your gifs exceeding 4 seconds when possible, but I have gone to 5 or 6 seconds before.

You want to go ahead and caption each shot right after clipping it to length.

Click on the tab labeled "Captions" and a new box will open.

Click "Add Caption". A huge box will open on top of your gif.

Set the caption size to XS, change color as desired, and drag the caption box down and center it on the bottom of your screen and type in your dialogue in the top right.

If you have two people talking back and forth in the same gif, you can click "Add Caption" in the bottom left to add another caption, and set one caption on top of the other, or set one caption to end where another caption begins by adjusting the edges of the purple bar.

4. Exporting to MP4

When you're happy with your captions and the length of the clip that will become your first gif, go back to the "Options" tab and set the following options:

Loop style: Normal

Pixel Size: Original

Frame Rate: HD (we'll adjust the frame rate later in Gifski. It does something a little weird if you adjust it here—even to 23 FPS).

Click "Save As..." and then save the file as an .mp4.

Repeat this process for every clip intended to be a gif in your set, until you have them all saved.

5. Compressing and converting to .gif in Gifski

Now open Gifski and open your first .mp4 clip. It may give you a warning about the frame rate. Just ignore it.

In the bottom left corner, you can see the estimated size of your resulting gif. This estimate will auto-update as you adjust your compression settings. Remember: To upload your gif on Tumblr, it needs to be about 10MB or less. If it's already 10MB, just go ahead and click convert! If not (which is more than likely):

Adjust FPS to 18. I find this frame rate to be a good balance of compression and retained quality.

Decrease the dimensions of your gif as needed. Whether you use the drop down box or the dialogue boxes, Gifski will automatically scale to retain your gif's screen ratio rather than stretch it to fit, so you don't need to worry about keeping your gif proportional.

You can finely adjust the settings until your gif is exactly 10 MB if you want to keep the best quality, or just aim for a ballpark.

Cick "Covert" then save the resulting gif. Do this for all your .mp4 clips and then boom. You're done.

But what if I don't WANT to use the Gifski GUI??? Let me automate!!

Maybe you AREN'T scared of the command line and you're thinking, "I don't want to adjust the compression on these things one by one! Was captioning in Giphy Capture not enough for you???"

Well then you can easily automate the process by using the Gifski command line interface (CLI) instead. I already wrote the script for you here.

If you're already going to use the command line, you could also use FFmpeg Script 1 or FFmpeg Script 2 to batch convert and optimize your clips into gifs.

Wait... so why aren't we compressing straight to gif in Giphy Capture???"

Because the quality after compressing will not be as good (usually), and the compression options are much more limited in terms of rescaling and setting the frame rate of your set. Giphy Capture also produces strange motion results often when adjusting frame rates. You can see a comparison set here. Or check these out:

The left is exported to GIF straight from Giphy Capture. The right converted to .gif in Gifski.

If you want to try compressing straight to gif in Giphy though, my recommended settings are:

Pixel Size: 640 px or 480 px if needed (I wouldn’t go lower unless you're arranging in 2x or 3x orientation)

Frame Rate: HD (or High in a pinch, but don’t do Standard or lower).

[goodgifswithfreetoolschallenge]

Same set but with this script:

for i in .mp4; do ffmpeg -y -i "$i" -filter_complex "smartblur=1.5:-1,unsharp=la=1.5" sharp_${i%.mp4}.mp4; done for i in sharp_; do gifski --fps 20 --width 540 --quality 100 -o gifski2/${i%.*}.gif "$i"; done

This script uses two different FFmpeg sharpening methods at their full strength on each .mp4 clip then scales them down to 540 pixels and 20 FPS with Gifski.

The first gif also had to be trimmed (I used the Gifski GUI for that) because it was still too large after scaling down to 540 px and reducing the frame rate to 20 FPS. It does give a cleaner result though.

Sam's Motivations 6/? | 1.12 "Faith"

[jula483]

(x)

[schibborasso]

hi fatty here, this is my 1st animated gif

[mapsontheweb]

July 2023 Google Top Search Query of Movies by US State

by u/zwei4

Method: This graph shows the top query rather than rising query: * TOP - The most popular search query. Scoring is on a relative scale where a value of 100 is the most commonly searched query, 50 is a query searched half as often as the most popular query, and so on. !Note this is NOT the same as "Rising"

The data was pulled using python, with pytrends (https://pypi.org/project/pytrends/), which is an unofficial API for Google Trends. Data processing, plotting and animataion done in R, with packages ggplot2, usmap, gganimate, gifski, etc.

[poisonedfate]

what program do you use to make gifs? do you have coloring or is that the natural colors from the show?

hi! in no world would i suggest you make gifs the way i do because it was never supposed to be that serious for me, so i still do it quite....backwards. i edit the clips separately (including colouring, yes) and then just turn them into gifs (programs i use are all free etc etc the one for gifs i use is gifski)

[fuzzyghost]

What program do you use to screen capture for gifs?

I have what is probably a really convulted process that has developed since i started making gifs. Maybe there's an easier way but this is how i get the best results.

yt-dlg - i use this to download youtube videos.

instagiffer - for a while i used this exclusively to make gifs. The interface is nice but ultimately i found the final results weren't great with lots of colour banding issues. Look at some of my older gifs to see what i mean.

What instagiffer is really good for is importing videos, frame selection, defining the frame rate, and cropping and exporting images.

So now i just use instagiffer for this and use gifski to create gifs from the exported images. This runs from Window Powershell but it's pretty easy to use. Here i tweak things a bit more, playing around with the frames i want, frame rate, and overall gif dimensions.

Once i'm happy with the gif i often run the frames through photoshop to sharpen them up or boost the colours as a lot of the source material is poor quality.

Hope this helps!

[throneofrozez]

ffmpeg + gifski

ffmpeg + photopea - dither

ffmpeg + photopea - dither/sharpening

this is for me to test stuff

but if youre reading this. it's canon that wolf and zander know how to pole dance now.

[gg-carboxylase]

Did I download the trailer in 4k?

Yes.

Yes I did.

Am I going to put it pieces through ScreenToGif / Gifski when I get home from work?

You bet your sweet ass. I guess it's time to put my color grading skills and my Adobe subscription to use.

I just wish I had a desk.

[goodgifswithfreetoolschallenge]

TOOL TUTORIAL 7

The Best of Both Worlds: FFmpeg Sharpening + Gifski Compression

I don't think I've shared the script I am now consistently using to turn my DaVinci Resolve clips into GIFs.

I am now using FFmpeg and Gifski scripts in combination. For the best balance of sharpness and compression.

After pointing my terminal/shell (Terminal on Mac and Linux, Powershell on Windows) to the folder where all my clips are, I paste these two commands into the shell/terminal,

for i in .mp4; do ffmpeg -y -i "$i" -filter_complex "smartblur=1.5:-1,unsharp=la=1.5" sharp_${i%.mp4}.mp4; done for i in sharp_; do gifski --fps 22 --width 540 --quality 100 -o ${i%.*}.gif "$i"; done

You can past them in at the same time or paste in one then the other.

The first script makes new copies of your clips and sharpens them, giving them the prefix "sharp_". The second script compresses those sharpened clips into GIFs.

In the second script, the numbers to the right of the fps, width, and quality flags can be adjusted to compress GIFs further or scale them down. (540 is the appropriate width for a single column set).

[goodgifswithfreetoolschallenge]

Here's the same set again, captured from 1080p source files, and captioned in Giphy Capture, but exporting to .mp4 and converting and compressing to .gif using Gifski:

This last set, though with a lower frame rate, imo does the best job of retaining the image quality by eliminating banding. When I look at it on desktop. However, sometimes Giphy seems to handle compressing longer sets better. It’s hard to say why.

He did nothing wrong here, btw.

[champagne-socialiste]

🦕 My 2022 is best described by steps I took 🍃

As known, walking 10,000 steps a day improves health. 

In 2022, I was concerned with my health state, especially. The year began with depression that literally surpassed me, leaving no chance to live outside my bed.

After Russian military aggression had escalated to the region I personally lived in, I fled to Poland as a refugee. There I discovered the meditative beauty of everyday walks in quiet, in safety.

I summered between Poland and Ukraine, and I had a beautiful personal reason to do so. In Poland, of course, I continued my step challenge, while in Ukraine I couldn't. Anxiety was the answer.

On autumn, I returned to Ukraine and had only rare visits to EU to see my family. Instead of long distance walking, traditional strength training = To cope with anxiety, to let my body live.

Still, I wanted to see aggregated data. I wanted to document 2022 with step counts. So I did, and with all the above context in mind, all graph fluctuations gained personal meaning.

Each data point is someone's story. And we should treat it accordingly.

/// Number of steps taken throughout 2022

The graph contains a full 365 days’ worth of data.

The middle number of steps taken is 4,302 - which is far away from the 10,000 goal set. August with a median of 12,258 steps is the only month that meets and even exceeds the expectations.

And after such a peak, September step count decreases by 66.34% (Though I did a year maximum that month, which is 26,534 steps taken on my way to Eiffel Tower :))

The end of the year is far from the median, and of course, far from the step goal. Still, 2023 will be the upward trend. I just know.

Data source: Health app Tools: R Studio Packages: tidyverse, ggpomological, gganimate, av, gifski

[havinganormalone]

I so desperately needed a gif of Harry hitting the bong that I spent a couple hours following online tutorials for gifsky and ffmpeg. That's the degree of autism I am experiencing right now.

[jula483]

Hey what app do you use for making gifs?

not app, but usually photoshop and lately i've been trying gifski!