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Big fan, as a very active GitHub user the conversion to GIF for screen grabs had been a constant paper-cut

by orta 5y ago

aardvarkr 5y ago
Is it really that hard to use screen2gif?
- whateveracct 5y ago
  gifs are hard to look good and make small, in my experience
  - deleted 5y ago
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  - edflsafoiewq 5y ago
    ffmpeg has the best gif output I've found.
    - tehbeard 5y ago
      Still much larger than the equivalent video, and without any audio or pause/scrub functionality.
    - whateveracct 5y ago
      But it's still big. And if you try to get a decent one to sub-1MB, you'll likely either have to sacrifice quality quite a bit. Especially if the gif is anything complicated. ffmpeg can work videos down much better
- taspeotis 5y ago
  As a past user of Screen2Gif I can say on Windows ShareX does a very good job of screen capture and recording.
  - abdusco 5y ago
    Does it work well with high dpi screens now? Last time I tried to use ShareX it didn't handle 150% scaling well. Cursor alignment was a all over the place.
    - tenryuu 5y ago
      take a look at this hack for FFMPEG https://github.com/rdp/screen-capture-recorder-to-video-windows-free/issues/56#issuecomment-777023201 https://github.com/rdp/screen-capture-recorder-to-video-wind... sharex only provides a MITM utility for ffmpeg, any issue is likely to come from either GDIGrab, or the linked screen-capture-recorder utilites (which are provided within sharex as an optional download)
- IshKebab 5y ago
  It's really hard to make it output small videos with audio!
- tinus_hn 5y ago
  Gif is a dumb waste of bandwidth and space.
contriban 5y ago
Use Licecap. It creates super-lightweight GIFs if there’s not much movement.
- jtchang 5y ago
  For mac? I have problems seeing any good download site.
  - prepend 5y ago
    Yes, for mac. The first link on their product page [0] has a download for mac [1] [0] https://www.cockos.com/licecap/ https://www.cockos.com/licecap/ [1] https://www.cockos.com/licecap/licecap131.dmg https://www.cockos.com/licecap/licecap131.dmg

Big fan, as a very active GitHub user the conversion to GIF for screen grabs had been a constant paper-cut

by orta 5y ago

Big fan, as a very active GitHub user the conversion to GIF for screen grabs had been a constant paper-cut

aardvarkr 5y ago

Is it really that hard to use screen2gif?

whateveracct 5y ago
gifs are hard to look good and make small, in my experience
- deleted 5y ago
  [deleted]
- edflsafoiewq 5y ago
  ffmpeg has the best gif output I've found.
  - tehbeard 5y ago
    Still much larger than the equivalent video, and without any audio or pause/scrub functionality.
  - whateveracct 5y ago
    But it's still big. And if you try to get a decent one to sub-1MB, you'll likely either have to sacrifice quality quite a bit. Especially if the gif is anything complicated. ffmpeg can work videos down much better
taspeotis 5y ago
As a past user of Screen2Gif I can say on Windows ShareX does a very good job of screen capture and recording.
- abdusco 5y ago
  Does it work well with high dpi screens now? Last time I tried to use ShareX it didn't handle 150% scaling well. Cursor alignment was a all over the place.
  - tenryuu 5y ago
    take a look at this hack for FFMPEG https://github.com/rdp/screen-capture-recorder-to-video-windows-free/issues/56#issuecomment-777023201 https://github.com/rdp/screen-capture-recorder-to-video-wind... sharex only provides a MITM utility for ffmpeg, any issue is likely to come from either GDIGrab, or the linked screen-capture-recorder utilites (which are provided within sharex as an optional download)
IshKebab 5y ago
It's really hard to make it output small videos with audio!
tinus_hn 5y ago
Gif is a dumb waste of bandwidth and space.

contriban 5y ago

Use Licecap. It creates super-lightweight GIFs if there’s not much movement.

jtchang 5y ago
For mac? I have problems seeing any good download site.
- prepend 5y ago
  Yes, for mac. The first link on their product page [0] has a download for mac [1] [0] https://www.cockos.com/licecap/ https://www.cockos.com/licecap/ [1] https://www.cockos.com/licecap/licecap131.dmg https://www.cockos.com/licecap/licecap131.dmg