Hi everyone, I have a bunch of animated GIF files and some JPGs that I want to string together as a slideshow and save as a video file. I've tried a couple of programs, including Windows Movie Maker, but the GIFs animations are lost, they just display as still images like the JPGs.
I would also like to be able to set the time for how long each file is displayed (like 5 seconds per file) and maybe even transitions.
Basically, a slideshow of images, with the animations preserved, then saved as a single video file.
Thanks!
Try StreamFab Downloader and download from Netflix, Amazon, Youtube! Or Try DVDFab and copy Blu-rays! or rip iTunes movies!
+ Reply to Thread
Results 1 to 7 of 7
Thread
-
-
You need video editor capable to support list of sources (files) and support transition (basically something like Scala https://scala.com/enterprise/).
Animated gifs are not issue if not natively supported by your video editor as they can be converted to regular video files (relatively easy to do task).
I'm not aware if there is freeware capable to support list of files - however any reasonable NLE should be fine especially after converting gif's to video. -
So, I'm pretty new at this. Can you recommend any apps that can batch convert GIFs to video, free or otherwise (prefer open source)? I've tried googling, but the results are heavily skewed towards converting videos into GIFs or converting them online (prefer to use a local app).
Thank you! -
You can use for example ffmpeg with script bellow:
Code:@setlocal @REM Where to Find ffmpeg @set FFMPG=C:\FF @set PATH=%FFMPG%;%PATH% @set filename=%1 @ffmpeg -hide_banner -loglevel 32 -stats -color_range 2 -y -i %filename% -c:v rawvideo -color_range 2 -pix_fmt bgr24 -f avi -an -dn -sn "%~n1.avi" @endlocal @pause
Just copy (Ctrl+C -> Notepad -> Ctrl+V) above script to file with extension cmd or bat (for example ffgif2avi.cmd), download ffmpeg , place ffmpeg.exe in folder C:\FF and from this moment you should be able to convert any gif (or other video) by simply drag & drop (select with mouse then drag without releasing mouse button to script then release mouse button - same like moving/copying files from one place to another).
I see only one problem that should be resolved by your video editor (i hope automatically) - produced video may have different framerate than sources so there is need to unify framerate of sources as most of video formats are constant framerate. -
-
It may be related to avi, raw and windows itself - easy to fix - saw also jagabo script to convert multiple gif's at once - there is one issue in this script - mkv format and i believe assumed YCbCr 4:2:0 + h.264 compression - all bad for gif's which are CLUT based and usually employ strong dither.
There is few filters that may improve perceived gif quality but they need to be applied before h.264 compression not after.
Similar Threads
-
How do I download m4s segment videos and combine them to mp4 format ?
By shraman in forum Video Streaming DownloadingReplies: 110Last Post: 18th Jun 2023, 14:52 -
Why Is Chrome So Bad At Handling Animated Gifs?
By Bruce Wayne in forum ComputerReplies: 17Last Post: 12th Apr 2016, 03:50 -
avi format has smoother motion than mp4 or mkv ?
By Tom80112 in forum Newbie / General discussionsReplies: 6Last Post: 7th Oct 2015, 17:09 -
Format Factory MKV to MP4 problem with video
By NerkoJVG in forum Video ConversionReplies: 6Last Post: 20th Apr 2014, 08:52 -
Avidemux: Merge JPGs into an MP4
By videoMilton in forum Newbie / General discussionsReplies: 2Last Post: 4th Nov 2013, 08:01