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    HD Animated GIF Generator

You can make your own HD animated GIF generator.

Follow along with these commands to get started.

git clone git://source.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git
cd ffmpeg
./configure --disable-yasm --enable-libfreetype
sudo make install
Create the HD Animated GIF Generator

Make a new file called hd-gif and add the following text.
#!/bin/sh

## echo "USAGE"
## echo
## echo "./easy source.mp4 dest.gif FPS RESOLUTION"
## echo "./easy video.mp4 animated.gif 30 480"
## echo

fps=$3
res=$4
txt=$5
palette="/tmp/palette.png"
filters="fps=$fps,scale=$res:-1:flags=lanczos"
paletteops="stats_mode=diff"
paletteops=""
drawtext="
    drawbox=y=ih/PHI:color=black@0.4:width=iw:height=160:t=max,\
    drawtext=fontfile=/Library/Fonts/AppleMyungjo.ttf:\
    text='$txt':\
    fontcolor=white:\
    fontsize=60:\
    x=(w-tw)/2:\
    y=(h/PHI)+th"

./ffmpeg -v warning -i $1 -vf "$filters,palettegen=$paletteops" -y $palette
if [[ -z "$txt" ]]; then
    ./ffmpeg -v warning -i $1 -i $palette -lavfi "$filters [x]; [x][1:v] paletteuse" -y $2
else
    ./ffmpeg -v warning -i $1 -i $palette -lavfi "$drawtext,$filters [x]; [x][1:v] paletteuse" -y $2
fi

Make Executable: chmod +x hd-gif

Now you can use your hd-gif script like this:
./hd-gif video.mkv anim.gif 24 480
Source Blog

http://blog.pkh.me/p/21-high-quality-gif-with-ffmpeg.html#usage
Upload to imgur for Hosting and .webm

You will finally want to upload to http://imgur.com to provide free hosting and easy quick links.
If your gif is over 7mb then Imgur will convert it to WebM format for performance.