Convert video to GIF in mac

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Converting your screencast/screen recording to Gif is not a big deal. All you need:
1. QuickTime Player to record your screen OR video file if you already have the video that you wanna convert
2. ffmpeg installed in mac

First of all, install HomeBrew using the following command

ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

Then install ffmpeg using the following commmand:

brew install ffmpeg

Now move in the terminal to the folder that contains the video file:

cd folder path goes here

Then run the following commands sequentially:

palette="/tmp/palette.png"

filters="fps=15,scale=700:-1:flags=lanczos"

ffmpeg -i in.mov -vf "$filters,palettegen" -y $palette
ffmpeg -i in.mov -i $palette -lavfi "$filters [x]; [x][1:v] paletteuse" -y out.gif

Set the scale value with width you wanna scale to. Set it to video width if you wanna no scale