This gist shows how to create a GIF screencast using only free OS X tools: QuickTime and ffmpeg.
Forked from https://gist.github.com/dergachev/4627207. Updated to use a palette to improve quality and skip gifsicle.
To capture the video (filesize: 19MB), using the free "QuickTime Player" application:
| gifify() { | |
| if [[ -n "$1" ]]; then | |
| if [[ $2 == '--good' ]]; then | |
| ffmpeg -i $1 -r 10 -vcodec png out-static-%05d.png | |
| time convert -verbose +dither -layers Optimize -resize 600x600\> out-static*.png GIF:- | gifsicle --colors 128 --delay=5 --loop --optimize=3 --multifile - > $1.gif | |
| rm out-static*.png | |
| else | |
| ffmpeg -i $1 -s 600x400 -pix_fmt rgb24 -r 10 -f gif - | gifsicle --optimize=3 --delay=3 > $1.gif | |
| fi | |
| else |
| // Use Gists to store code you would like to remember later on | |
| console.log(window); // log the "window" object to the console |