kirbysayshi / gifify

gifify turns movies into gifs.

gifify

gifify is a shell script for converting screen recordings into GIFs that can be embedded conveniently into places like Campfire chatrooms or GitHub issues and pull requests.

Installation

Download the gifify script and make it available in your PATH.

curl -o /usr/local/bin/gifify -O https://raw.github.com/jclem/gifify/master/gifify.sh && \
  chmod +x /usr/local/bin/gifify

Dependencies

1. CloudApp gem: gem install cloudapp
2. ffmpeg: brew install ffmpeg
3. imagemagick: brew install imagemagick

Usage

Given a file recording.mov:

Convert it into recording.mov.gif, and upload it to CloudApp:

gifify recording.mov

Convert it into new_gif.gif, and upload it to CloudApp

gifify -o new_gif recording.mov

Convert it, cropping the top left corner, and upload:

gifify -c 100:100 recording.mov

Convert it, and do not upload it to CloudApp:

gifify -n recording.mov

Convert it, upload it, then destroy the gif and the original file:

gifify -x recording.mov

License

MIT (See LICENSE)