Looking For A Program That Split A Video Into Many Gifs??

[DJboutit]

I know of a few programs that do one gif at a time I am looking for a program that will split a video into many 15 second gifs which program do you recommend??

[pandy]

Perhaps ffmpeg with segment command will work for you.

[DJboutit]

Anybody else know of a program that can do this??

[johnmeyer]

Anybody else know of a program that can do this??

Just use VirtualDub: import the video and then export as an animated GIF.

Here's a tutorial:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmtYEkpF1W0

Here's a test I did myself. I forgot to map the colors (GIFs don't allow millions of colors), so there is some funky solarization going on.

GIF Example

If I'd spent an extra twenty seconds I could have fixed that.

Next time try using Google. That's how I found this stuff. It took approximately ten seconds.

[DJboutit]

I am still looking for a free program that can do this anybody know of any thing??

[pandy]

I am still looking for a free program that can do this anybody know of any thing??

ffmpeg as already mentioned at the beginning.

[Cornucopia]

Virtualdub, as was mentioned above, is also free.

Scott

[DJboutit]

I want to take like a 3 to 4 min video and break into to 15 to 22 seconds gifs

[johnmeyer]

You seem to want to ask questions rather than actually do something with the answers you have been given. I gave you an answer that works, and I proved it works by posting an example that I created, just for you. Instead of trying out my suggestion, you simply repeat the same request. It is clear that you are not serious about getting the job done. This conclusion is even more obvious because it has now been eighteen months since you first asked the question, and you still haven't even tried the two suggestions you were given.

[DJboutit]

The programs that have been listed will only do one gif at a time they will not break a 3 to 4 min video in many 15 to 22 second gifs

[johnmeyer]

Actually, they will, if you take the time to actually try it out. Also, if you want to split a video into multiple GIFs, you have to specify the cut points.

If you want automation, I can suggest some commercial programs. You might also be able to script some of the cutting using AVISynth and then feed that to ffmpeg. At some point you are going to have to do some work.

[DJboutit]

List some payed programs that are able to do this??

[johnmeyer]

Vegas Pro is what I use.

If it were me, I'd first convert the GIFs to an image sequence (VD can do this), and then use these individual images to create your new, multiple GIFs. If you have done any work with GIFs, you know that one of the most difficult aspects is getting the animation speed correct. You can change the speed either by adding frames (duplicating or tweening), or by changing the animation speed header (i.e., the fps). Both these things are easier to do if you start with individual images.

[Budman1]

If you don't wish to try the excellent suggestions above, it should be possible to do as johnmeyer suggested and use a batch file, incrementing a couple variables to create virtual images with ffmpeg and pipe them to "Convert' ( part of ImageMagick) and create multiple GIFs.

[pandy]

The programs that have been listed will only do one gif at a time they will not break a 3 to 4 min video in many 15 to 22 second gifs

This is simply untrue - already pointed segment option for ffmpeg - script will split your source on parts, next step take those parts and create CLUT and later run ffmpeg with created CLUT to create gif's - all steps within single batch and single free software for all files matching preselected extension...

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You can skip step for CLUT generation if decide to use some fixed pre-calculated CLUT - this will create suboptimal GIF quality but should speedup whole process.

CLUT is 256 fixed color palette as GIF is 256 color format - in theory every GIF frame may have own CLUT but ffmpeg has not implemented this method.
This is nice tutorial about ffmpeg and gif with examples and explanations:
http://blog.pkh.me/p/21-high-quality-gif-with-ffmpeg.html