A curated list of awesome GIF resources
This is a list of tools, scripts, libraries, examples & other resources related to the Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) image format.
- General Tools
- Utilities
- Libraries
- GUI
- Hosting
- Online Tools
- Community
- 3rd Party
- Scripts
- Miscellaneous
- FFmpeg
- ImageMagick
- GraphicsMagick - GraphicsMagick is usually faster than ImageMagick
- MoviePy - Python module for video editing
- Gifgen - Simple high quality GIF encoding
- Gifify - Convert any video file to an optimized animated GIF
- Gifify (not the same) - convert screen recording into GIF
- Gifsicle - lossy gif compressor
- Gifs - storage place for gifs - demo
- Gifshot - create animated GIFs from media by Yahoo - demo
- Gifsockets - Real Time communication library using Animated Gifs as a transport
- X-gif - a web component for flexible GIF playback
- gifme - generate animated GIFs
- GifW00t - javascript web recorder
- gif-machine - gif creation from Youtube videos
- gifstreaming - Live video streaming server
- Screengif - Create animated gif screencasts
- vnc-over-gif - Serves screen updates as animated gif over http
- gifdeck - Convert your SlideShares into animated GIFs
- Gifbot - GIF search for Slack
- Gif-camera - create animated GIFs using webcam
- Gifline - Chrome extension to put GIFs in your emails
- Gifdrop - Create a repository for your collection of gif images
- Gh-gif - NodeGH plugin for commenting on pull requests/issues using GIF reactions
- Tty2gif - record scripts and their outputs into both binary and gif formats
- Giftoppr - Sync your favourite gifs with Dropbox
- Gifit - Chrome extension to make a GIF from a YouTube video
- Ccapture.js - Capture animations created with HTML5 canvas
- Kap - Beautiful open-source app to capture your screen and export to GIF.
- Gifit (the other one) - Get a search resulting giphy gif in markdown in stdout, ala
$ gifit kittens
.
- Flash Animated Gif Library - AS3 library for playing Animated GIFs in Flash
- Node-gif - C++ library to make Gif
- Gif-h - C++ one-header library for the creation of animated GIFs
- OfxGifEncoder - C++ openframeworks addon to export animated gifs
- dot-screencap - A simple libary to record your screen and save it as animated gif
- WpfAnimatedGif - A simple library to display animated GIF images in WPF
- XamlAnimatedGif - A simple library to display animated GIF images in XAML apps (WPF, WinRT, Windows Phone)
- Gif - Haxe gif encoder
- Android-gif-drawable - Views and Drawable for displaying animated GIFs on Android
- gifanimateddrawable - Use an animated GIF as an Android Drawable
- GifView - android library to deal with Gif
- Gif Movie View - Android View widget for displaying GIF animations
- GifImageView - Android ImageView that handles animated GIF images
- Gif-animation - Processing library to play and export GIF
- Android-gif-encoder - animated GIF encoder for Android
- GIFDroid - Android video to GIF converter
- Android-GifStitch - create and share animated gifs
- Gif.js - Javascript - create GIF from the DOM
- Omggif - Javascript - GIF 89a encoder and decoder
- Animated_GIF - Javascript library for creating animated GIFs
- Gifffer JavaScript library that prevents the autoplaying of the animated Gifs
- Gifplayer - jquery plugin to play and stop animated gifs
- Jsgif - JavaScript GIF parser and player
- node-gify - Javascript convert videos to gifs using ffmpeg and gifsicle
- Gifencoder - Server side animated gif generation for node.js
- Gif-video - Javascript Convert a GIF image into an HTML5-ready video
- Gif-player - On-demand GIF loader/player in Javascript
- GifgifLab-face - Facial-emotion detectors
- node-youtube - Youtube to snapshots and GIFs.
- GifCreator - PHP class that creates animated GIF from multiple images
- Spacer.gif - PHP script offering spacer.gif 1x1
- GifFrameExtractor - PHP class that separates all the frames of an animated GIF
- AnimatedGIFImageSerialization - decodes an UIImage from Animated GIFs image data
- UIimage from GIF - UIImage category that loads animated GIFs
- GIFRefreshControl - "Twitter music" and "Yahoo! Weather" like pull-to-refresh control
- UIImageView-PlayGIF - UIImageView category/subclass for playing GIF
- FLAnimatedImage - Gif engine for iOS by FlipBoard
- Animated-GIF-iPhone - Support for Animated GIF on iOS
- UzysAnimatedGifPullToRefresh - PullToRefresh using animated GIF to any scrollView
- iOS AnimatedGif - Animated GIF library for iPhone
- SvGifView - iOS load and display Gif
- GifHUD - iOS progress hud for displaying only animated gif images
- Video-Background GIF - iOS Video Background GIF
- AnimatedGifExample - iOS animated and transparent gifs
- OLImageView - iOS OLImage and OLImageView support for animated GIFs
- Glyph - tool for generating seamlessly looping GIFs and cinemagraphs from videos
- Qgifer
- GIFs - Mac App for finding GIFs
- VineGifR - Mac app to turn Vine videos into gifs
- GifPro - Gif encoder for Mac
- Gif Maker - High quailty gif maker with filters for Mac
- Gfycat - Maximum gif/video length: 15 seconds. Maximum file upload is 300Mb
- Imgur - Maximum file upload is 50MB
- Vid2gif - Video to Gif by imgur
- EzGif - Online GIF maker and image editor
- Giflr - A web app for making or remixing animated GIF's
- Gif.gf - Provide a matching GIF for your face
- Starwars-dot-gif - Python script to generate gifs from star wars
FFmpeg
ffmpeg -f image2 -i image%d.jpg animated.gif
Imagemagick
convert -delay 20 -loop 0 frames*.png animated.gif
Bash script (frames2gif.sh
) for GraphicsMagick, ImageMagick, FFmpeg
#!/bin/bash
if [ $# -ne 5 ]; then
echo "please provide the moviename and directory where to store the frames"
echo "./frames2gif.sh [directory] [movie.mp4] [filename.gif] [gm|im|ffmpeg] [png|jpg]"
exit 1
fi
if [ "png" == "$5" ]; then
suffix="png"
else
suffix="jpg"
fi
CONVERT=$(which convert)
GM=$(which gm)
FFMPEG=$(which ffmpeg)
FFPROBE=$(which ffprobe)
FPS=$($FFPROBE -show_streams -select_streams v -i "$2" 2>/dev/null | grep "r_frame_rate" | cut -d'=' -f2 | cut -d'/' -f1)
echo "FPS: ${FPS}"
if [ "im" == "$4" ]; then # use imagemagick
FPS=$(echo "1 / ${FPS} * 100" |bc -l)
$CONVERT "$1/*.${suffix}" -delay ${FPS} -loop 0 "$3"
elif [ "gm" == "$4" ]; then # use graphicsmagick
FPS=$(echo "1 / ${FPS} * 100" |bc -l)
$GM convert "$1/*.${suffix}" -delay ${FPS} -loop 0 "$3"
else # use crappy gif-algorithm from ffmpeg
$FFMPEG -f image2 -framerate ${FPS} -i "$1/%08d.${suffix}" "$3"
fi
From DeepDreamVideo, source
ffmpeg -i video.mpg image%d.jpg
convert -coalesce animated.gif image%05d.png
with ffmpeg / based on this article
- Generate a palette :
#!/bin/sh
start_time=30
duration=3
ffmpeg -y -ss $start_time -t $duration -i input.avi \
-vf fps=10,scale=320:-1:flags=lanczos,palettegen palette.png
- Output the GIF using the palette :
#!/bin/sh
start_time=30
duration=3
ffmpeg -ss $start_time -t $duration -i input.avi -i palette.png -filter_complex \
"fps=10,scale=320:-1:flags=lanczos[x];[x][1:v]paletteuse" output.gif
convert -layers Optimize output.gif output_optimized.gif
./gifsicle -O3 --lossy=80 -o lossy-compressed.gif input.gif
from moviepy.editor import *
clip = (VideoFileClip("input.avi")
.subclip((4,00.00),(5,00.00))
.resize(0.3))
clip.write_gif("output.gif")
Freezing a region
from moviepy.editor import *
clip = (VideoFileClip("input.avi")
.subclip((4,00.00),(5,00.00))
.resize(0.3)
.fx(vfx.freeze_region, outside_region=(170, 230, 380, 320)))
clip.write_gif("output.gif", fps=15)
ffmpeg \
-ss ${starttime} -t ${duration} -i ${vidfile} `# body of loop` \
-ss TODO ${starttime} MINUS ${duration} -t ${fadetime} -i ${vidfile} `# lead-in for crossfade` \
-loop 1 -i ${stillfile} `# masked still image` \
-filter_complex "
[0:v]setpts=PTS-STARTPTS[vid]; `# speed adjustment - not needed here, so noop`
color=white,scale=3840x2160,fade=in:st=0:d=${fadetime}[alpha]; `# crossfade alpha, double length ahead of speed change`
[1:v][alpha]alphamerge[am]; `# apply alpha to lead-in`
[am]setpts=PTS+(${duration}-${fadetime})/TB[layer2]; `# speed adjustment and offset for lead-in`
[vid][layer2]overlay[oo]; `# overlay for crossfade`
[oo][2:v]overlay=shortest=1[out1]; `# overlay still image`
[out1]crop=w=${cropfactor}*iw:h=${cropfactor}*ih:y=${yoffset}*ih,scale=${outputwidth}:-1, `# crop and scale`
eq=gamma=${gamma}:contrast=${contrast}:saturation=${saturation},unsharp `# final adjustments`
" -an output.mp4
by Roger Barnes
import moviepy.editor as mp
from moviepy.video.tools.cuts import FramesMatches
clip = mp.VideoFileClip("input.avi").resize(0.3)
scenes = FramesMatches.from_clip(clip, 10, 3)
selected_scenes = scenes.select_scenes(2, 1, 4, 0.5)
selected_scenes.write_gifs(clip.resize(width=450), "./outputs_directory")
- Download it via youtube-dl and then convert it.
youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2XpsaLqXc8
see this stackoverflow's answer
using PhantomJS
Example with this canvas.
var webPage = require('webpage');
var fs = require('fs');
var page = webPage.create();
var NB_FRAME = 100;
var current = 0;
page.open('http://www.effectgames.com/demos/canvascycle/?sound=0',
function(status) {
if (status === "success") {
var current = 0;
var grabber = setInterval(function () {
var frame = page.evaluate(function() {
return document.getElementById('mycanvas').toDataURL("image/png").split(",")[1];
});
fs.write("./frame-" + current + ".png",atob(frame), 'wb');
if (++current === NB_FRAME) {
window.clearInterval(grabber);
phantom.exit(0);
}
}, 1000);
}
});
or use ccapture.js.
Webkit request : add a function to WebKit to stop all in-progress GIF animations