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Record screen to animated GIF on Linux (alternative to LICEcap)
You could take a look at Peek too.
Peek is a simple tool that lets you record a section of your screen and save it as an animated GIF image.
Peek screenshot:
Peek recording:
Peek requires FFmpeg + ...
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Software for converting MP4 to animated GIF
ffmpeg
Can convert from mp4 to gif. You can apply some effects or resize the video to balance between quality and file size.
You haven't posted your mp4 sample, so I am using my own.
Plain ...
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Screen-recording GIF 'video' tool for Mac OS X
ScreenToGif
General
Free & Source code available
Simple to use
Portable
9 MB small
No limitations such as time or file size limit
Features
Record your screen and save directly to a gif looped ...
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App to remove duplicate frames in an animated gif?
ImageMagick is a well-known commandline app that has been around for a while and it claims to do exactly what you are asking.
To let you remove [...] useless duplicate frames from a coalesced ...
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Cutting an animated GIF file on Windows
ScreenToGif
Free and open source
No install
actually works!
Has a mutipal modes: Recorder, Webcam, Board and Editor (you are interested only in the editor)
It is quite easy to cut a gif. Launch the ...
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Free online service to cut a GIF file
Not online but mentioned because it's the only way I could find to remove a range of frames in a single command. For linux, gifsicle is a very useful tool:
#see how many frames the gif has
gifsicle --...
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Screen-recording GIF 'video' tool for Mac OS X
I recommend Kap, an open-source screen recorder built with "web technology."
It seems it only supports macOS as of now, but you might be able to add Windows support by a simple PR, as it is using JS.
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Is there a tool to produce gif from screen recording for windows
ShareX is in my opinion the best tool to do this out there.
It will capture screenshots, video, GIFs upload them automatically to your favorite service and much more.
On top of that it's free and ...
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Free GIF animator
http://ezgif.com/maker is one of the best web based GIF creators/editors.
free and no watermarks
great quality and sane file size/count limits
display time can be set for each frame, as well as loop ...
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Record screen to animated GIF on Linux (alternative to LICEcap)
I Haven't seen it mentioned here, so try Scrot.
It's part of my Ubuntu packages so should be in universe at the least without PPA's
I Have zero experience in using it, but I'll generally go with a ...
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Add second counter to a gif file
This is not the first time I have seen a question about adding second counter to GIF, so I decided to add this feature to ezgif.com
You can upload the GIF at http://ezgif.com/effects and select "add ...
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Free tool to compress images to a given file size
Available on most systems, the ImageMagick package's convert command has far more image conversion options than anyone would ever need (literally hundreds).
$ convert -resize 50% input.jpeg ...
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Best software for recording GIFs screen captures with good quality and low sizes for forums
GIF is a terrible format when it comes to compression, so I'm afraid to say that you're already close to the limits. If there is much going on in your GIF, 9 MB is not much for a 744x376 GIF that runs ...
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How to reduce frame rate of animated gif?
https://ezgif.com/optimize has an option to reduce framerate (Remove every 2nd frame or every 3rd frame).
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Third party library for converting from word to gif in ASP.NET Core or through API
The LEADTOOLS SDK has .NET Core NuGet packages that support (among many other things) the conversion from Doc/Docx to image formats like GIF and PNG. (Disclaimer: I am an employee of this toolkit’s ...
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Third party library for converting from word to gif in ASP.NET Core or through API
This requirement can be achieved using Syncfusion Word Renderer and PDF Renderer. These NuGet packages are available in nuget.org
NuGet package Required
Syncfusion.DocIORenderer.Net.Core - for ...
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Is there a tool to produce gif from screen recording for windows
You have several issues to solve.
First is capturing the video you want. Plenty of screen recorders - I'm a Linux user so I like gtkrecordmydesktop, at work (educational tech) we recommend Jing to ...
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Is there a tool to produce gif from screen recording for windows
There is a software program called gyazo (gyazo.com)
It has the ability to take screenshots and make gifs as you want.
It is available on windows and mac.
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What free tool can I use to convert GIFs into JPGs with minimal loss?
Any image converter (not minimal Image Editor, like paint) should give you quality options when converting the format, and if you choose the best quality you should be fine (although there definitely ...
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Generate sheets of animated characters
I believe there is a version of Krita specifically for animation. Search for "Krita Animation Release" for the latest version. I am not an animator, but I use Krita for static doodling.
Good Luck.
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Add second counter to a gif file
You almost certainly can do this from the command line with Image Magick by using GIF Animations Annotations in a frame-by-frame manner but you will have to spend some time playing about with the ...
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App to remove duplicate frames in an animated gif?
I found these online services that do offer online GIF compression including a deduplication in frames:
https://www.iloveimg.com/compress-image
(Does not explicitly advertise this deduplication, but ...
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Screen-recording GIF 'video' tool for Mac OS X
Quite weird that no one has mentioned Giphy Capture
It is really cool and you can do both, record video or create gif.
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Record screen to animated GIF on Linux (alternative to LICEcap)
I use
1. Byznaz for recording
sudo apt-get install byzanz #ubuntu
dnf install byzanz #fedora
python-xrectsel for area selection
pip install python-xrectsel
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