A growing collection of ffmpeg tools to convert (Quicktime and other) videos to gif or other optimized formats

ffmpeg_chat.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash -eu

# Usage: ffmpeg_chat.sh input.mov [output.mp4]

# from: https://andrekr.github.io/ffmpeg-command-line-wizard/

ffmpeg -hide_banner -i "$1" -c:v libx264 -preset medium -movflags faststart -vsync 2 -enc_time_base -1 -crf 23 "${2:-${1/\.[^.]*/}.mp4}"

ffmpeg_gif.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# Usage: gifenc.sh input.mov [output.gif]

# from: http://blog.pkh.me/p/21-high-quality-gif-with-ffmpeg.html

palette="/tmp/palette.png"

filters="fps=5"
ffmpeg -v warning -i "$1" -vf "$filters,palettegen" -y $palette
ffmpeg -v warning -i "$1" -i $palette -lavfi "$filters [x]; [x][1:v] paletteuse" -y "${2:-${1/\.[^.]*/}.gif}"

FFMPEG_TOOLS.md

FFMPEG Tools

A growing collection of ffmpeg tools to convert (Quicktime and other) videos to gif or other optimized formats.

Resources

• https://andrekr.github.io/ffmpeg-command-line-wizard/
• https://catswhocode.com/ffmpeg-commands/
• http://blog.pkh.me/p/21-high-quality-gif-with-ffmpeg.html