Creating Animated GIF with Linux (PIF)

October 29, 2019kiwibloke

Tuesday, 29. October 2019

It's not always necessary to have a linked video to support your blog post. Having a small animated GIF can be just as effective to demonstrate your point. So in this post, I'm going to show you how I create an animated GIF file Linux Mint, and to also quickly announce my 5 PIF (pay it forward) recipients for October.

Knowing I'm creating a small blog post, I use my mobile phone to capture both images and videos 720p/1080p quality (depending what what phone I have at the time). We always have our phones on us, and carrying extra camera equipment is just too cumbersome.

You can never have enough images, so I go snap crazy. Also when taking videos, I keep them short in recording length, seldom do I go over 15secs per clip, and I record a lot, chances are you've captured something really good without realizing it.

Now that we have selected the video clip we wish of use, we play it a couple of times and take down some notes needed for the BASH command

• where our GIF begins
• the duration of our GIF
• frame rate of our GIF
• scale of our GIF

Heres the BASH command

ffmpeg -ss 00:00:01 -i '00119.MTS' -to 11 -r 10 -vf scale=320:-1 out_10sec_10_320.gif

• GIF starts at 01sec after the video starts
• set the duration of the GIF to 11secs
• set the GIF frame rate to 10fps
• set the width of the GIF to 320pix wide
• input video file: 00119.MTS
• output animated GIF: out_10sec_10320.gif

Due to the final size, I dropped the frame rate down from 12fps to 10fps, normally I use 12fps and the durations are 7secs or less. The resulting GIF is a little bit more jerky than what I prefer but I think the extra 4secs of duration improves the videos story.

https://i.postimg.cc/44L6Mycq/out-10sec-10-320.gif

As you can see I've uploaded the GIF to postimage and placed the link onto this blog. Nearly all of the images/videos on my blog are created by me (logo's that I sometimes display belongs to the respective owners)

Animated GIF: Wainuiomata Christmas Parade 2017

more of the parade.....

Pay It Forward (October)

.......and another one

Linux works so well for me, happy bashing!

References

1. [ Blog ]https://tinyurl.com/y53tg8tr) `pay it forward desription

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