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ffmpeg to convert a video to animated GIF
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Useful for converting screenshots, for example. Note the reduced framerate and scale (which can be changed) to help with reduced filesizes:

ffmpeg -i some-video.mov -filter_complex "[0:v] fps=12,scale=480:-1,split [a][b];[a] palettegen [p];[b][p] paletteuse" output.gif
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