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This is an awesome idea. I would love the option to upload a short video clip instead of a gif though, and have it take 10 evenly spaced frames from the video.

by sarah2079 13y ago

This is an awesome idea. I would love the option to upload a short video clip instead of a gif though, and have it take 10 evenly spaced frames from the video. My nieces (ages 8 & 10) would love to use this to make prints of themselves in action, but it would be easier for them to be able go straight from a video taken with a phone to a printed product.

shashashasha 13y ago
Thanks! We currently do support Vine and Instagram video, and you can pick a short clip from there. Processing all videos in all formats is a little tricky right now and it's helpful to have the pre-constraint of those social networks. Taking video from a phone is a great idea though!
- doctorwho 13y ago
  It's pretty easy to extract all the image data from ANY video source using FFMPEG. If the command line version doesn't fit into your workflow, there's always libavcodec (what FFMPEG is based on). Give me a shout if you're interested in supporting any and all video formats.
- Sir_Cmpwn 13y ago
  Expanding on what doctorwho said: ffmpeg -i input.whatever frame-%04d.png Explode virtually any video format into frames, assuming that you've configured ffmpeg generously at compile time.
  - shashashasha 13y ago
    Totally! We just need to do more work on our end to make sure we don't end up accidentally accepting multi-gig video files. Vine and Instagram is a convenient way to start because it's much more constrained :)
    - Sir_Cmpwn 13y ago
      client_max_body_size 50M;
      - shashashasha 13y ago
        Haha awesome. We need to step up our game! We're primarily frontend designer/developers and this is our first node.js project :)
- menubar 13y ago
  Pretty sure you can do that in Photoshop and/or specialty apps. See "Cinemagraphs/Cinemagrams". For example: http://www.reddit.com/r/Cinemagraphs/ http://www.reddit.com/r/Cinemagraphs/
adamryman 13y ago
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shashashasha 13y ago

Thanks! We currently do support Vine and Instagram video, and you can pick a short clip from there. Processing all videos in all formats is a little tricky right now and it's helpful to have the pre-constraint of those social networks. Taking video from a phone is a great idea though!

doctorwho 13y ago
It's pretty easy to extract all the image data from ANY video source using FFMPEG. If the command line version doesn't fit into your workflow, there's always libavcodec (what FFMPEG is based on). Give me a shout if you're interested in supporting any and all video formats.
Sir_Cmpwn 13y ago
Expanding on what doctorwho said: ffmpeg -i input.whatever frame-%04d.png Explode virtually any video format into frames, assuming that you've configured ffmpeg generously at compile time.
- shashashasha 13y ago
  Totally! We just need to do more work on our end to make sure we don't end up accidentally accepting multi-gig video files. Vine and Instagram is a convenient way to start because it's much more constrained :)
  - Sir_Cmpwn 13y ago
    client_max_body_size 50M;
    - shashashasha 13y ago
      Haha awesome. We need to step up our game! We're primarily frontend designer/developers and this is our first node.js project :)
menubar 13y ago
Pretty sure you can do that in Photoshop and/or specialty apps. See "Cinemagraphs/Cinemagrams". For example: http://www.reddit.com/r/Cinemagraphs/ http://www.reddit.com/r/Cinemagraphs/

adamryman 13y ago

This might help http://gifmachine.xwl.me/ http://gifmachine.xwl.me/