Topic: Gifski lets you Convert videos to high-quality GIFs on your Mac (CLI 4 Windows)

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Gifski lets you Convert videos to high-quality GIFs on your Mac (with a CLI interface for Windows or Linux systems)

https://github.com/sindresorhus/Gifski/releases/latest

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🌈 Convert videos to high-quality GIFs on your Mac

Gifski

Convert videos to high-quality GIFs on your Mac



This is a macOS app for the gifski encoder, which converts videos to GIF animations using pngquant's fancy features for efficient cross-frame palettes and temporal dithering. It produces animated GIFs that use thousands of colors per frame and up to 50 FPS (useful for showing off design work on Dribbble).

You can also produce smaller lower quality GIFs when needed with the “Quality” slider, thanks to gifsicle.

Gifski supports all the video formats that macOS supports (.mp4 or .mov with H264, HEVC, ProRes, etc). The QuickTime Animation format is not supported. Use ProRes 4444 XQ instead. It's more efficient, more widely supported, and like QuickTime Animation, it also supports alpha channel.

Gifski has a bunch of settings like changing dimensions, speed, frame rate, quality, looping, and more.

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Requires macOS 10.15 or later.
Older versions

    Last macOS 10.14 compatible version (2.16.0)
    Last macOS 10.13 compatible version (2.4.0)

Features
Share extension
Gifski includes a share extension that lets you share videos to Gifski. Just select Gifski from the Share menu of any macOS app.
    Tip: You can share a macOS screen recording with Gifski by clicking on the thumbnail that pops up once you are done recording and selecting “Share” from there.

System service
Gifski includes a system service that lets you quickly convert a video to GIF from the Services menu in any app that provides a compatible video file.

Bounce (yo-yo) GIF playback
Gifski includes the option to create GIFs that bounce back and forth between forward and backward playback. This is a similar effect to the bounce effect in iOS's Live Photo effects. This option doubles the number of frames in the GIF so the file size will double as well.


Tips
Quickly copy or save the GIF
After converting, press Command+C to copy the GIF or Command+S to save it.

Change GIF dimensions with the keyboard
In the width/height input fields in the editor view, press the arrow up/down keys to change the value by 1. Hold the Option key meanwhile to change it by 10.

https://github.com/sindresorhus/Gifski

https://github.com/ImageOptim/gifski

https://gif.ski/