video2gif.md

2 step process (for better quality)

Step 1.

ffmpeg -i input_video.webm -vf "fps=10,scale=720:-1:flags=lanczos,palettegen" palette.png

Step 2.

ffmpeg -i input_video.webm -i palette.png -filter_complex "fps=10,scale=720:-1:flags=lanczos[x];[x][1:v]paletteuse" output.gif

arguments

• scale: re-scale input video without changing aspect ratio
• fps: fps for output gif

Trim GIF

ffmpeg -i input.gif -vf "palettegen" palette.png

ffmpeg -i input.gif -i palette.png -filter_complex "[0:v]trim=start=1:end=5,setpts=PTS-STARTPTS[p];[p][1:v]paletteuse" output.gif

arguments

• start: start time in seconds
• end: end time in seconds