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On macOS, you can use Quicktime which lets you also select a geometric region within the screen. Then, you can edit, crop and so forth in iMovie. Finally, you c

On macOS, you can use Quicktime which lets you also select a geometric region within the screen. Then, you can edit, crop and so forth in iMovie. Finally, you can use ffmpeg to convert to gif. The following command works well: ffmpeg -i in.mp4 -vf "fps=10" -loop 0 out.gif To be clear, the loop 0 will make the gif infinitely loop. By setting a number n, it will set the gif to loop n times.

s1k3s 4y ago
Thanks, it seems like Quicktime + iMovie is what I was looking for.
- rasengan 4y ago
  No problem!
- hbn 4y ago
  Worth noting, if all you need to do is trim the video, Quicktime can do this quickly out of the box without iMovie (Cmd+T to trim) A lot of the time I find this preferable because iMovie is not very flexible with video aspect ratios/resolutions
hbn 4y ago
I've done this but I've still never figured out the magic sauce to get a gif with a good balance of file size and quality. And gifs seem to have some kind of trick I don't understand with framerate cause sometimes a 30fps gif I made will play in slow motion, and at first I think it's that it's just slowly loading, but even after it's fully loaded it still plays slowed down. gifs just constantly remind me that they're not made for what we used them for these days
- taylorjadin 4y ago
  gifski does a great job at being relatively simple, while handling quality stuff for you. https://gif.ski/ https://gif.ski/ gifski --fps 10 --width 320 -o anim.gif video.mp4
zikduruqe 4y ago
> On macOS, you can use Quicktime which lets you also select a geometric region within the screen. Or Command + Shift + 5