Your only option here is to create PNG images instead: ffmpeg -i input. probably 2.0 and 2.1), ffmpeg doesn't follow the above syntax.

If you're stuck on a version where you still have this bug (i.e. To convert a video file video.mov to an animated gif with 5 frames per second and sized to 450 by (whatever height is proportionally correct for that x value) ffmpeg -i video.mov -vf fps=5,scale=450:-1 animated.gifįfmpeg will detect your movie type so you should be able to use ‘.mpg’, ‘.mp4’ without changing the command. With ffmpeg 1.2.1 and lower: When you leave out -f gif, ffmpeg correctly produces single images for each frame: ffmpeg -i input output04d.gif. And we don’t need 30 or 60 frames per second in the gif, usually we can get away with about 5, and sometimes as low as 1 or 2.Īll of this helps keep the file size lower. Instead, we want to control the x and y dimensions to make it easier to re-use on the web. The simplest command to create an animated gif would be: ffmpeg -i video.mov animated.gifīut this will create a gif file with the same dimensions as the movie and will convert every frame of video, so it might actually end up larger file size than the movie. Since I created a video, I thought I’d try and figure out how to use ffmpeg to convert the video to an animated gif. I’ve used ScreenToGif and CloudApp to create animated gifs in the past.

I decided to look at ffmpeg and see if it can create animated gifs, and it can. I recorded a video, and thought it would be easier to upload as an animated gif.

Ffmpeg gif second per frame