Show HN: Gifify – Convert any video file to an optimized animated GIF

Next, take the Gifify output, upload to gfycat to get a optimised video file. Repeat until convergence.

Here&#x27;s my own video -&gt; gif bash script: <a href="https://github.com/montanaflynn/vidtogif" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;montanaflynn&#x2F;vidtogif</a><p>And here&#x27;s a one-liner using ffmpeg and ImageMagick:<p><pre><code> ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vf scale=600:-1 -r 5 -f image2pipe -vcodec ppm - | convert - gif:- | convert -layers Optimize - output.gif</code></pre>

If you want to create a gif that represents the complete video in a short gif loop have a look at <a href="https://github.com/marlev/gifserver" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;marlev&#x2F;gifserver</a><p>&quot;I spent hours googling for a service that creates an animated gif from a video, that represents the complete video. I only found solutions that animated the first 10 frames, the first 30 seconds etc. So i decided to create gifserverthat will represent the complete video with 9 looping frames,no matter how long the original file is.&quot;

Why are you using that fork of gifsicle? I went to that repo to read the homepage but it was the unchanged gifsicle README.

gifify now supports subtitles and can extract 5 seconds from a 2 hours movies in less than 20 seconds.<p>HF with GIFS

The people at Buzzfeed will love it :)