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Change quick time movie to animated gif
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mov_to_gif.md

Sometimes I like to do screen capture with quicktime because its already installed on my mac.

And then sometimes I want to take the resulting video (.mov file) and attach it to a PR on github (animated .gif)

You can use this command to make the conversion, adjust and configure to suite your own needs.

ffmpeg -i orig.mov -s 640x360 -pix_fmt rgb24 -r 10 -f gif - | gifsicle --optimize=3 --delay=6 > final3.gif

OR

ffmpeg -i orig.mov -vf scale=600:-1 -pix_fmt rgb24 -r 10 -f gif - | gifsicle --optimize=3 --delay=5 > final.gif

NOTE: requires ffmpeg and gifsicle to be installed, both can be installed on mac using homebrew

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