Questions tagged [gif]
gif (or Graphics Interchange Format) is an image format originally invented by CompuServe for web usage. It supports a 256-bit palette, transparency, and animation.
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Why am I getting pixelated videos in FFmpeg when converting to a GIF?
I want to encode this WEBM video:
https://buggem.github.io/connecting.webm
I have been noticing the fact that FFmpeg has been played up when it comes to quality.
I am doing WEBM to GIF, if that ...
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FFmpeg batch compressing mp4s and changing them to gifs
I want to take a folder of mp4s and with ffmpeg compress them and turn them into gifs.
I do this for each file using this code:
ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -c:v libx264 -tune zerolatency -preset ultrafast -...
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How do I create very large .gif files from .png frames, avoiding memory limitations?
I would like to create a .gif from single .png frames and am dealing with lots of very large files. The .png files are roughly 10GB in total.
So far, I have done the following:
ffmpeg -framerate 30 ...
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Make a GIF image with an exact given byte size
For a specific task (replace an image inside a firmware without any data offset shifting), I need to create a GIF file of size 409x240 pixels of exactly 6449 bytes:
offset 0-5: GIF89a (magic string)
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How do I create a perfectly seamless loop gif from a video which has multiple cycles?
Let's say for example I have a video of a ball going around in a circle. In the video, it's obvious it is a loop and the entire video is around 1 minute and 20 seconds long, so the ball goes around ...
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combining two animated GIF icons [closed]
I'm trying to combine two GIF icons and I would like the result to be like what I see when I open a document in libreoffice draw or libreoffice impress , import these 2 icons and group them : both are ...
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Inserted GIFs photos do not animate in Microsoft Word 2016
I make lots of proposals on a daily basis. I would like to know how I can put animated photos that would play in Microsoft Word and subsequently in my PDF documents.
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How to convert gifs to video while keeping framerate
edit: Looks like converting the gifs may not really be changing the frame rate, guess the question is moot.
I have a lot of gifs nested in multiple subdirectories and they have different frame rates ...
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ffmpeg convert directory GIF in linux
Hi i'm trying to convert a directory of gifs to mp4 but i don't know how to i'm use this code for single file please help me
!ffmpeg -i /content/drive/MyDrive/1/ -movflags faststart -pix_fmt yuv420p -...
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Colors change when converting GIF to VP9 WebM using FFmpeg
The colors come out fine when I try using VP8 WebM or H264 MP4, but whenever I use VP9 WebM there's a slight change in color. The change in color can be seen in Chrome, not sure about other browsers ...
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Automate copying new file in specific folder to clipboard
I'm using a macOS app to create GIFs (called GifFox) but the app does not offer a feature to auto-save to clipboard. However, I can define the location the GIF will be saved to. How can I create an ...
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How to convert a pixel art gif into an HD mp4? [duplicate]
I'm a pixel animator on twitter, with a problem... The website only hosts video files, and will automatically convert gifs into aggressively compressed mp4 files that are 10kb big, destroying the art....
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Pixel Art Gif to Webm
I have a large gif file (100+ MB) and I'd like to convert it to webm to reduce the size of the final file to 10-12 MB. I'm using ffmpeg to do this and it converts the file just fine except the ...
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ffmpeg not working for URL input(directly like -i "https://ae01.alicdn.com/kf/Hfff52cf71f784d99ad93c73a334e7e37a/65x70.gif")
i've been facing issue with parsing URL input to ffmpeg executable. earlier i used to check the details for GIF such as FPS & resolution using "ffmpeg.exe"but now it has stopped working ...
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Extracting text from animated GIF file
I have a GIF file that shows a scrolling down through a table. That table has data that I need to extract. Here is how the file looks like,
BTW, I have video files that show the same. With extensions ...
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How to slow down gif in Photoshop?
I have a gif file and I want to make it slow motion. I figured I can achieve desired result by duplicating each frame in the gif several times. The problem is there are a lot of frames and duplicating ...
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ffmpeg: set fixed GIF framerate while using filter_complex
I'm using ffmpeg to create a GIF from a sequence of images.
Also using filter_complex option to generate a boomerang fx.
ffmpeg -framerate 20 -i frames/%07d.png -y -filter_complex [0]reverse[r];[0][r]...
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Make a GIF of animated object in PowerPoint
I want to export my animated PowerPoint object (not the entire slide) as GIF.
Directly to GIF instead of Video if possible.
How can I do so?
Version Info:
I have PowerPoint 365 on windows 11
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How to lower the file size of a GIF file?
I am using Peek for screen recording into a GIF file.
Sometimes I want to remove useless part of the file. For this purpose I use Kdenlive.
After editing and rendering a final file become much bigger ...
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Add single pixel to .gif file using ffmpeg
I have several thousand .gif files (with alpha channels) and I want to add a single red pixel (no transparency) in the bottom left hand corner of each .gif file. Each one has different dimensions.
How ...
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How to convert BMPs (bitmap black&white) to 1-bit color depth animated GIF
I have a sequence of BMPs that are 1bpp (1-bit color depth, black & white of course). I want to combine them into a single animated GIF, with 1-bit color depth. Is this possible?
So far I have ...
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ffmpeg - Add text to existing gif without gif decolorization / pixilation
I am trying to add text to a gif, but after I add it there is some image decolorization & pixilation that happens.
The command I am running on a to add text to the gif is as follows:
ffmpeg -i ...
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Upscale Gif File with Nearest Neighbor Interpolation (Integer Multiple) on Windows (Gifsicle)
I want to upscale a .gif file with nearest neighbor interpolation on Windows from commandline (I am scaling by integer multiples). I have tried gifsicle 1.92 but for some reason it doesn't work ...
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ffmpeg - how to add multiple overlay gifs on top of video + command generator runs forever
the user will choose multiple gifs, scale them, put them in the desired position on screen, then they will be overlayed on top of a video ..
in simple case where user choose only one gif to overlay .. ...
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Making GIFs with ffmpeg: what does "transparency_color" do?
I've been making GIFs from PNGs using FFmpeg, using commands like the following:
ffmpeg -framerate 10 -pattern_type glob -i '*.png' -filter_complex "[0:v] split [a][b];[a] palettegen=...
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FFmpeg: Apply Unique Palette To Every Frame of a .GIF?
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Have .GIF with duration of 10 seconds at 15fps, for a total of 150 frames.
Want to use different palette for every frame. Have palette files:
p1.png,
p2.png,
p3.png
etc …
p150.png
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Add image above gif with ffmpeg
I cut out the top part of a 320x356 gif as follows:
ffmpeg -i image.gif -filter:v "crop=320:226:0:130" out.gif
I have a text image that I want to put where the cut out part was; how do I do ...
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convert images to gif error marking filters as finished
I'm converting pretty large .png files to gif (2000X1000)
I used this article http://blog.pkh.me/p/21-high-quality-gif-with-ffmpeg.html about a year ago to write a script after interpolating to find a ...
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A PNG sequence to a GIF results in artifacts
Why would FFmpeg create these artifacts like remaining pixels on the edges of the animation where objects have already removed and how to remove these?
Why would it create this magenta/red colored ...
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Imagemagick file conversion not working?
I am trying to convert a file from .gif to .bmp using this command:
convert -coalesce pixels8.gif out.bmp
While doing this i get this error:
convert-im6.q16: memory allocation failed `pixels8.gif' @ ...
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Why is the Batch script I created to convert MP4 files to GIF files with FFmpeg not working?
This is what I have so far. It runs, but throws an error.
I have come up with the following below.
for %%a in ("*.mp4") do ffmpeg -i "%%a" -t 3 -vf "fps=10, scale=320, flags=...
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How to control gif loop settings in FFmpeg
I'm able to export a sequence of images as a gif with FFmpeg:
ffmpeg -vsync 2 -safe 0 -f concat -i "file:concat.txt"
-lavfi palettegen=stats_mode=diff[pal],[0:v][pal]paletteuse=new=1:...
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FFMPEG : create a looping video with specific time
I'm trying to convert a GIF file into video and merge the output video with an audio file, so the final result will be a video + audio.
public static String makeVideo(String inputGifPath, String ...
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Is it possible to embed a GIF in an RTF file?
I write a lot of tutorials using RTF as the format, but would like to be able to insert animated GIFs into them. I am wondering if this is possible with some code of any kind? I tried to drag and drop ...
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How can I limit the number of colors used in a GIF file while converting a MP4 to a GIF with FFmpeg?
I have this command that I found somewhere on SuperUser that converts an MP4 to a GIF:
ffmpeg -i INPUT_FILE.MP4 -vf "fps=16,scale=160:-1:flags=lanczos,split[s0][s1];[s0]palettegen[p];[s1][p]...
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Saving a webpage along with its gifs [duplicate]
I'm looking for a way to save a wepgage along with its gifs (example).
I know how to save a single gif, but my goal is to save the whole webpage (not as a pdf) and its gifs so that, when I open the ...
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How to edit .webm files or convert them to good quality .gif, to edit in GIMP
I have a short scene from some TV show in a .webm format. I wanted to edit it, to create a simple funny animation/meme. I know how to edit .gif in a GIMP frame by frame, so I thought about converting ...
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FFMPEG keeps converting without stopping when using HStack to combine a gif with an video while also using a scale2ref filter
I am trying to combine/merge a gif/image with a video to output a video that has both in one frame.
For that purpose i'm using FFMPEG on nodejs.
The filter I am using is Hstack and since the content ...
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How can I identify GIF files that were written by FFMPEG?
I have lot of gif files, several thousand.
Some of them was created by me, and I nearly always used ffmpeg when encoding the gif.
Now I would like to select those animations from the large ...
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Combine Audio and Gif into a video while preserving transparency using ffmpeg
I'm trying to combine an audio file and a gif into a video and I'm running into some issues despite trying quite a few solutions over Stack Overflow.
I would like the combined file duration to match ...
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Batch convert WebP files to GIF files offline?
Writing a batch script to convert all WebP files to be GIF format.
Looking at the closest utility offered by Google, I don't see an immediately obvious way to do that. I don't like having to use ...
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Cut gif with FFmpeg while retaining quality?
I'm attempting to cut a gif using -ss and -t in FFmpeg but it's drastically decreasing the quality in comparison to the original gif.
I'm using this command:
ffmpeg -y `
-i "S:\Videos\Saved Clips\...
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Why different frame count on ffprobe?
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I use ffmpeg. Why are the frame counts different between A_COMAND and B_COMAND?
sample_gif
A_COMAND:
$ ffmpeg -i ./for_sample.gif -vf mpdecimate,setpts=N/FRAME_RATE/TB ./tmp/%1d.png
can ...
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How to compress gif effectively to reduce size?
We use gifs for our blog extensively. We used to embed tenor nano gifs(90px height maintaining aspect ratio, used for GIF previews and shares on mobile) in it. Now we wanted to create our own gifs and ...
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ffmpeg png to gif losing first half of frame list with fifo filter
Can anybody suggest a solution to (or at least a cause for) the following snag I'm experiencing in Windows 10, please?
While I originally thought this was, maybe, a problem with the source images, I'm ...
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Turning a series of PNG files into GIF with black transparent background
I have a series of RGB PNG images and I'd like to turn them into a single animated GIF file with black=transparent.
The following command was recommended elsewhere, but it doesn't seem to turn the ...
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Do 60 FPS GIF's actually exist? Or is the maximum 50 FPS?
I've been recently playing around with FFmpeg and I was trying to convert .avi to .gif since other methods I've tried to so far didn't work so well.
What I noticed is that, when I use this command:
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Convert animated gif to animated webp using FFmpeg
How can I convert animated gif (with Alpha channel) to animated webp?
I stuck with transparent background, I can't figure out how to convert gif with transparent background to webP with transparent ...
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Rendering a high-fps gif from a video with ffmpeg?
I've been at this for about an hour. I've extracted the frames from my clip and rendered the frames to a mp4 with no problem. The mp4 plays exactly like how I'd like my gif to play, but when using ...
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ffmpeg gif frames overlapping when made from transparent images
I'm trying to make a gif from a series of transparent pngs but when I play the resulting gif back the frames overlap the first frame can be seen through. Here's the command I was using(as part of a ...
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