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How to convert any video to gif using ffmpeg

To convert any file to a GIF using FFmpeg, you can follow these steps:

  1. Install FFmpeg: Ensure you have FFmpeg installed on your system. You can check if it’s installed by running ffmpeg -version.
  2. Create a Custom Palette: Generate a custom palette of 256 colors specific to your video file using the following command:
ffmpeg -ss 00:01:30 -t 5 -i video.mkv -filter_complex "[0:v] palettegen" palette.png
  • -ss: Sets the starting point of the video.
  • -t: Sets the duration (e.g., 5 seconds).
  • -i: Specifies the input video file.
  1. Create the GIF: Use the custom palette to create the GIF with this command:
ffmpeg -ss 00:01:30 -t 5 -i video.mkv -i palette.png -filter_complex "[0:v] fps=10,scale=720:-1 [new];[new][1:v] paletteuse" output.gif
  • fps: Specifies the frame rate of the output GIF.
  • scale: Resizes the video while maintaining aspect ratio.
  • paletteuse: Applies the custom palette to generate the GIF.

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