In Microsoft PowerPoint 2013, I have a single slide containing a fairly complex animation. I would like to convert this animation to an animated GIF file.
I have tried saving the animation directly from PowerPoint into an mp4 or wmv video file. Unfortunately, both of these formats use lossy compression. When converted to GIF (using FFmpeg and ImageMagick), the output file is larger than necessary because it faithfully reproduces all of the mp4/wmv compression artefacts.
Is there any way to get PowerPoint to save a lossless video of my animation? Converting a lossless video to GIF should result in a significantly smaller file, as well as slightly cleaner output.
If it is not possible to get such a lossless video, is there any other recommended way to create a GIF of my animation?
ffmpeg -i FromPowerPoint.mp4 FromPowerPoint\ffout%03d.png
, then converting to a GIF using ImageMagick'sconvert.exe -layers optimize -loop 0 FromPowerPoint\ffout*.png FromPowerPoint.gif