Creating GIFs from .MOV files in OSX using FFmpeg and ImageMagick

OSX-Convert-MOV-GIF.md

Convert .mov to .gif

# produce frames
❯ ffmpeg -i ernie.mov -vf scale=200:-1 -r 5 output/ffout%3d.png

# compose the .gif
❯ convert -delay 8 -loop 0 output/ffout*.* output/animation.gif

# shrink the file
❯ mogrify -layers 'optimize' -fuzz 7% output/animation.gif

Great Articles

• https://gist.github.com/dergachev/4627207
• http://superuser.com/questions/556029/ffmpeg-converts-flv-video-to-gif-with-awful-quality