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While Animated GIFs are very inefficient by todays standards, they still have several advantages over all modern video formats: - GIF lacks audio support so
by weichsel 8y ago
While Animated GIFs are very inefficient by todays standards, they still have several advantages over all modern video formats:
- GIF lacks audio support so it's guaranteed to be silent
- The crappy compression forces creators to keep their clips short
- GIFs can often be uploaded/attached on platforms that only support images but no video for some reason
(like GitHub issues for instance)
Some of those features are actually limitations but IMO there are a lot of use cases for a format that sits between still images and full blown video.
I maintain a screen recording app for macOS that has a very efficient aGIF exporter: https://www.peakstep.com/claquette/ https://www.peakstep.com/claquette/
The GIFs on the product page are between 130 and 400 KB.
- devwastaken 8y agoLacking a feature that can just be disabled by the platform isn't really an advantage. I don't know why forcing things to be short by risk of large files is a good thing. Sharing gifs in image platforms is easier but the bandwidth skyrockets and is not an efficient way to communicate information. Platforms should be implimenting video support, not saying 'x platforms don't do it so we shouldnt'. The social media world has already solved the issue, why can't these sites.
- jonny_eh 8y agohttps://cloudinary.com/blog/evolution_of_img_gif_without_the_gif https://cloudinary.com/blog/evolution_of_img_gif_without_the...