Questions tagged [animated-gif]
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How do I create a GIF screencast in Windows?
I need a way to record my Windows desktop and save it as an animated GIF file. Here's an example:
I need GIF animations so that they can run from a web page without requiring any plugins.
I want to record and save directly as a GIF.
How can I…
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How to stop animated gifs in Google Chrome?
I wish that the .gif files would only show the first frame and never do any animation.
Also, I'd like this to work automatically (i.e. having to hit Esc as in Firefox is not enough).
Is there a way of doing that in Chrome? I'm on a dev channel so I…
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Why does FFmpeg choose 10+20+20 ms instead of an even 16 ms for 60 fps GIF images?
I have a short 60 fps video which I'd like to turn into a GIF file. I run
ffmpeg -i foo.flv foo.gif
and it produces a GIF file. Great!
The only problem is that the motion in the produced GIF video is janky and uneven. If I use another tool, I can…
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Optimize animated GIF size in command-line
How to compress GIF animations? For example by reducing the color index.
The files are generated using Imagemagick but optimization seems complicated.
For example, the following animation is 864KB at 150x119:
To be used on a Linux machine.
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How do I make an existing animated GIF loop repeatedly?
I have an animated gif which, as originally created, animates once then stops. I want to modify the image file so it loops forever instead.
What free applications or command-line utilities for Mac OS X can I use to do this? I've found several GIF…
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Does only GIF support animation?
Is GIF the only major image format that supports animation?
With GIF images being a relatively poor quality format, why are they the only one that supports animation in most viewers / browsers?
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Insert Animated GIF into Powerpoint 2013?
As per title, I am looking for a way to embed animated GIF files within my powerpoint presentation. I was hoping for this to be native functionality but either inserting as image or as video does not appear to work.
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Do 60 FPS GIF's actually exist? Or is the maximum 50 FPS?
I've been recently playing around with FFmpeg and I was trying to convert .avi to .gif since other methods I've tried to so far didn't work so well.
What I noticed is that, when I use this command:
ffmpeg -I filename.gif
I can see some of the file…
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How to take a CSS animation from a browser, and export a GIF of it?
I have the following CSS3 Animation going on: http://dabblet.com/gist/2884702. It's basically a simulation of a mirror rotating on its x-axis.
Now, I wish to present that in a PowerPoint presentation. Since PowerPoint doesn't have the webkit engine,…
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Setting an animated .gif as the desktop background on Windows 7
I have an animated .gif I created using Photoshop CS4, but I can't get animation on my desktop although I can set it as a background from the context menu by opening it in Internet Explorer.
How can I set an animated .gif as the desktop background…
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Tile animated gifs
Is there some way to use imagemagic / montage to tile looped animated gifs (intermixed with nonanimated ones)?
That is, I want to concatenate the animations in space, not in time. I realize that the number of frames and their duration in the…
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How to make transparent background of a gif animation?
I have a gif animation with white background.
Is there a simple way (e.g., free or shareware application) to remove this white background and make it transparent?
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How do I resize an animated GIF and keep transparency?
I tried to resize an animated GIF with transparency, but it turned the background a solid white. How do I keep the transparency?
I read https://superuser.com/a/556031/130929 and tried
>set FILTERS=scale=320:-1:flags=lanczos
>ffmpeg -hide_banner -i…
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Capture CLI Output as Animated GIF
Some questions and answers on codegolf have helpful animated GIFs which display the output of a command line program.
Some GIFs look great, like this one from the Make me a fake loader question:
Others look corrupt and choppy, like this one from…
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How to stop chrome/firefox downloading a gif?
When I visit any page containing some animated gifs (Google+, 9gag etc), all those seem to start loading. My bandwidth is limited and I don't want those to be downloaded unless I really want to view. I have seen some plugins which just stop…
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