Note: This didn’t work with the ffmpeg version I had on my machine, so it’s best to always keep the program up to date. In the example below, we generate output.mp4 which is twenty times the length of input.mp4.įfmpeg -stream_loop 20 -i input.mp4 -c copy output.mp4

The -stream_loop N option lets you loop (concatenate) the input video N times. Input GIF Viewer Turn On the GIF Viewer View a GIF frame by frame at the speed you need. See also this article from GIPHY Engineering. This gist walks you through creating a GIF with ffmpeg and gifsicle. It's all about how dynamic the original color pallet is. Most GIFs work fine with 128 and lots work well with 64. If you lower the number it reduces the files size as a trade off being the reduced color pallet. A more complicated solution is explained in this answer on the Super User StackExchange, along with an article detailing how to obtain better-looking GIFs from ffmpeg. maxcolors: GIFs can have to up to 256 colors. ffmpeg -framerate 1 -i input03d.png -r 25 output.mp4 Frames will be duplicated or dropped to match the desired output frame rate. Example: input images at 1 fps, but make the output 25 fps. The output will look like 1 fps, but will actually be a normal frame rate, such as 25 fps. This method tends to output poorer-quality GIFs. So you can make ffmpeg use a different output frame rate.

For some reason I couldn’t apply the setpts filter in a direct MOV to GIF pipeline, so I’m first making a sped-up MP4, then converting that to a GIF.

The command above makes an MP4 video at twice the speed of the original MOV. Ffmpeg -i my-recording.mov -filter:v 'setpts=0.5*PTS' my-recording-sped-up.mp4

Ffmpeg gif framerate