Jonathan Burroughs
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« on: May 23, 2014, 01:32:50 PM » |
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What's the best way to capture video and convert it to GIFs?
I've been trying to capture some editor footage from Unity. I used Open Broadcast Software to do my screen capturing. And I was going to Import Frames to Layers in Photoshop. But OBS only captures x264 and Photoshop CS3 won't import that format.
Any good quality alternatives?
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Snow
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« Reply #1 on: May 23, 2014, 01:55:14 PM » |
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Code_Assassin
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« Reply #2 on: May 23, 2014, 03:54:29 PM » |
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Licecap is a good one as well. It is my primary gif-capture tool.
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Jonathan Burroughs
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« Reply #3 on: May 23, 2014, 04:10:22 PM » |
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You're both heroes. Thank you so much. I used GIFCam for my purposes tonight. I'll give Licecap a go next time!
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Catghost
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« Reply #4 on: May 24, 2014, 11:21:16 AM » |
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... Gonna have a lot of fun with these. Thanks for sharing!
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Muffinhat
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« Reply #5 on: May 27, 2014, 06:50:27 PM » |
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Export as a .mov, go into photoshop, and save to web as a .gif.
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snoodleking
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« Reply #6 on: May 30, 2014, 04:17:47 AM » |
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I havn't used Gifcam but I can confirm that licecap works and is easy to use, despite it's unfortunate name.
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FeralCatDen
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« Reply #7 on: May 30, 2014, 11:01:28 AM » |
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Export as a .mov, go into photoshop, and save to web as a .gif.
That's my standard method as well. Great control over palette and dithering,
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cliffclavin
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« Reply #8 on: June 12, 2014, 10:05:40 AM » |
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Also notable licecap is available for osx
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tieTYT
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« Reply #9 on: July 17, 2014, 08:13:21 PM » |
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I started with Licecap but I gotta say that Gifcam is far superior. It lets you edit the animation to cut out frames after you record and it does it in a way that is very intuitive. It was very difficult for me to find another program that does that.
Also, I like that Gifcam always stays on top. It was possible to put Licecap in the background.
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tieTYT
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« Reply #12 on: August 02, 2014, 10:03:29 AM » |
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Wow, that's good to know. But can I embed that gfycat "image" in a tigsource post?
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michaelplzno
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« Reply #13 on: August 02, 2014, 10:43:18 AM » |
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If you wait a few seconds and hit the "gif" button it will take you to a traditional gif version that you can save and upload as you would any other gif. Seems like you can even use gfycat to host them:
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tieTYT
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« Reply #14 on: August 02, 2014, 11:12:15 AM » |
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Great, I'm going to use this today on my devlog
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Dean Tate
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« Reply #15 on: August 05, 2014, 07:00:35 AM » |
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I'm going to give these a try. Up until now, to get the best results, I do this: -Capture video using FRAPS. -Import into Adobe Premiere, cut video to the clip I want, export frames (I think at 12 fps usually) as PNG. -Import PNG files into photoshop as layers, then make the layers into animation frames. -Crop/resize image as needed. -Export for web as GIF. I tried using some online gif shrinking tools, like EZGif, and they were terrible in that the resulting files would not animate on twitter or tumblr.
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DevWithoutACrew
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« Reply #16 on: August 20, 2014, 01:31:43 AM » |
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Use Qgif, I use it with OBS, you just drop the video in and it does all the work, has lots of option and filters too
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joeyspacerocks
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« Reply #17 on: August 21, 2014, 04:48:42 AM » |
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On a Mac I use the command line - specifically ffmpeg and ImageMagick. E.g. for a mov recorded from a retina iPhone: ffmpeg -i "$1" -vf scale=w=iw/2:h=ih/2 -r 24 "$FRAMES/f%03d.png" convert -fuzz 2% +map -delay 5 -loop 0 +dither -layers Optimize "$FRAMES/f*.png" output.gif
where $FRAMES is a temp folder I can unpack the individual frames into. (in real life I've packaged the above into a badly written, but more useable bash script
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anthnich
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« Reply #18 on: September 02, 2014, 03:36:52 PM » |
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Easy to use and gets the job done! GIFCam is my go to.
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Thomas Finch
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« Reply #19 on: September 02, 2014, 04:11:47 PM » |
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I like using Fraps to record a video, then using VirtualDub to edit it and export it into a GIF. Sometimes I use GIMP to edit or optimize the GIF.
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