Photo Booth + Giphyīest for: GIF-ing your bedroom dance routines for a global audience.
When you need to make a good GIF of something you are doing alone in your home, I know of only one good way to go about it.
Giphy capture quicktime skin#
My friend Claire Carusillo, who writes the beautiful and inspiring skin care Tiny Letter “My Second or Third Skin” taught me this method. You merely position your computer in front of your body (at any distance you please) and record a video using a Photo Booth app. You can upload that video to the GIF Maker section of Giphy’s website. (This is also another useful tool for making GIFs from YouTube videos, with similar limitations to those I mentioned above re: Giphy Capture.) You can also add text to your GIFs by flipping over to the GIF Caption tab, so as to narrate your dance routine. My friend Claire uses these GIFs to make illustrated how-to guides because it’s easy to record hands-free video with Photo Booth and it’s easy to add legible captions through Giphy. Just look at her beautiful and useful handiwork: QuickTime + GIF Breweryīest for: M aking multiple GIFs from the same video source, and using lots of custom options. The QuickTime + GIF Brewery option is what I use for most of the GIFs I make for The Verge Dot Com. It involves several more steps than Giphy Capture and GIF Brewery costs $4.99 to download, but it gives you a lot more freedom and, to be honest, I’m just in the habit of it.
I have no idea why it's apparently sped up though.There are nine, which is a lot, but I assure you the results are worth the extra lift. You can then save the workflow as an app or service that works on files so that using it is as simple as dragging and dropping movies into it or right clicking on a video file: $TOOL_PATH/ffmpeg -i $VIDEO -s $WIDTH_HEIGHT -r 10 -f gif - | $TOOL_PATH/gifsicle -optimize=3 -delay=3 > $GIF WIDTH_HEIGHT=$($TOOL_PATH/ffprobe -loglevel warning -show_streams $VIDEO | grep -e "width\|height" | sed -E 's/(width|height)=//g' | sed -e ':a' -e 'N' -e '$!ba' -e 's/\n/x/g')
Giphy capture quicktime portable#
app doesn't know where ffprobe, ffmpeg, or gifsicle are, so this solution is definitely not very portable and might require adjusting, but it's at least quick: I had to modify it slightly as the resulting. If you wanted to create an automator workflow for this, you would want to use the "Run Shell Script" workflow item using the arguments as input.
WIDTH_HEIGHT=$(ffprobe -loglevel warning -show_streams $VIDEO | grep -e "width\|height" | sed -E 's/(width|height)=//g' | sed -e ':a' -e 'N' -e '$!ba' -e 's/\n/x/g')įfmpeg -i $VIDEO -s $WIDTH_HEIGHT -r 10 -f gif - | gifsicle -optimize=3 -delay=3 > $GIF # finds width and height of $VIDEO expressed as 123x456 The output resolution can (and probably should) be varied along with the file names.įor people wanting to produce a shell script to do the above, I came up with this:Įcho "usage: $ "
Giphy capture quicktime install#
It uses the command line, so it might not be great for your use case, but I suspect this could easily be put into an Automator workflow.īrew cask install xquartz #dependency for gifsicle, only required for mountain-lion and aboveįfmpeg -i in.mov -s 600x400 -r 10 -f gif - | gifsicle -optimize=3 -delay=3 > out.gif Uses Quicktime to save a video, ffmpeg to convert the video, and gifsicle to compress/clean the final gif.
I was actually trying to solve this problem for myself today and found this nice little Github gist:
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