ffmpeg-gif

A small script that converts videos to a high quality GIF, by spawning ffmpeg in two passes using palettegen filter.

Assumes ffmpeg command is globally available. Tested with ffmpeg 2.6.2.

The above GIF was generated with this tool

Install

npm install ffmpeg-gif -g

Examples

# create 320w 30fps gif
ffmpeg-gif input.mov output.gif --fps=30 --scale=320:-1

# seek to 23s and make the gif 10s in length
ffmpeg-gif input.mov output.gif --seek 23 --time 10

# seek/time takes any ffmpeg duration format
ffmpeg-gif input.mov output.gif -S 00:10:00

Usage

ffmpeg-gif input output [opts]

Options:

  --fps, -f    fps, default 20
  --scale, -s  resize to width:height (optional)
  --seek, -S   seek to time, default no seek
  --time, -t   total duration, default full clip

License

MIT, see LICENSE.md for details.