Convert movies to animated gifs

gifit

#!/bin/bash

# This script required ffmpeg and gifsicle
# On OSX: `brew install ffmpeg gifsicle`

SECONDS=0
INPUT_FILE=$1
BASENAME="${INPUT_FILE%.*}"
OUTPUT_FILE="$BASENAME.gif"

echo "🎥 Converting $INPUT_FILE to $OUTPUT_FILE"

ffmpeg -i $INPUT_FILE -pix_fmt rgb8 -r 10 $OUTPUT_FILE -loglevel warning -stats && gifsicle -O3 $OUTPUT_FILE -o $OUTPUT_FILE

ELAPSED="$(($SECONDS / 3600))hrs $((($SECONDS / 60) % 60))min $(($SECONDS % 60))sec"

echo "🎉 Complete in $ELAPSED"

Usage:

➜  Desktop ./gifit movie.mov

🎥 Converting movie.mov to movie.gif
frame=  177 fps= 22 q=-0.0 Lsize=    1644kB time=00:00:17.61 bitrate= 764.6kbits/s dup=0 drop=877 speed=2.16x
gifsicle: warning: huge GIF, conserving memory (processing may take a while)
🎉 Complete in 0hrs 0min 26sec

Thanks to https://gist.github.com/davidbarsky/18de6325f135116e20a5