FFMPEG gif script for bash

Script to generate animated gifs easily from command line.

Outputs palette-mapped .gifs with great colours & desired resolution from your videos.

Installation

• Clone the repo
• Install ffmpeg (you might need to install a package manager, such as homebrew for OS X)

Usage

• Run ./gifenc [input movie file] [generated gif's name] [horizontal resolution] [frames per second (fps)]
• i.e.: ./gifenc input.mov output.gif 720 10 will output 720px wide 10fps .gif. (chmod +x gifenc.sh might be needed to run beforehand)

Tips

• Tweak the parameters in order to get internet-shareable sizes
• Tested with most common movie formats

Special thanks to this article.