Video file to gif file

[lalson639]

Guys plz Help me.. i need a method to convert Video Files to gif file... i hve tried some methods but they r results in making Big size Gif file... i need method to convert video file to gif file in quality n in small size possible. thanks

[El Heggunte]

Depending on the original video resolution, duration and frames-per-second, the conversion to animated GIF surely will return HUGE filesizes. Even if you use a "smart" application (such as the ancient Microsoft GIF Animator) which stores only the differences between the first frame and the remaining frames, instead of compressing each frame independently. Besides, don't forget that GIFs use a 256-color palette, and so the conversion is not lossless.

[jagabo]

i need a method to convert Video Files to gif file... i hve tried some methods but they r results in making Big size Gif file...

That's just the way it works. The way to reduce the size is to make sure as much of the frame as possible has no detail. That may or may not be possible depending on your video.

[pandy]

Guys plz Help me.. i need a method to convert Video Files to gif file... i hve tried some methods but they r results in making Big size Gif file... i need method to convert video file to gif file in quality n in small size possible. thanks

At first use only ordered dithering, prepare single 256 color palette for whole video, consider to decimate number of frames (and as such framerate), you can additionally reduce final gif size by applying optimization and final word - don't expect miracles - maybe instead of gif you can use video codec (VP9 for example should be now supported by all main web browsers).

The way to reduce the size is to make sure as much of the frame as possible has no detail.

Well... it depends what is detail... i can imagine detailed video and low gif size and video without any details and large gif size. (you think on gif like on video codec - IMHO it is not the same case)