the really sadistic thing about like, making gifs from videos is that you don't need to rely on weird and maybe shady sites with a lot of limitations! there is a tool that can trim videos, crop videos, and convert them to gifs, and like five dozen other things besides! and it's COMPLETELY FREE AND LEGIT!!!
...the catch is, it's operated entirely through the command line.
yes, this is about ffmpeg.
edit: LINKS
- @OniLink recommended this graphical tool for video editing called HandBrake.
- @obspogon shared some tools to make ffmpeg a slightly less hateful experience
- here's my personal video-to-gif ffmpeg command that probably won't explode your computer, maybe
- oh yeah and this is where you get The Bastard itself
- also suggested: DaVinci Resolve (@bigfakeinhell) and GifCam (@jackapedia)
ffmpeg be like: how would you like to learn a programming language and also the nuances of image encoding and color theory in order to rotate a png ninety degrees
Good news: You can make this worse for yourself by learning AviSynth, the video editing programming language of choice for Something Awful Lets Players in the early 2010's.
I have the cursed knowledge of situations in which I would want to use DirectShowSource instead of AviSource.
this is a simple command line builder
and this is a flowchart builder for commands. you might like the example videos provided.
brought to ypu by: me remembering a flowchart ffmpeg builder shown on hacker news, failing to find it, but finding these instead.
DaVinci Resolve just recently added support for exporting gifs so you don't have to do all this shit if you use that lol