Thanks! I store all of my Star Trek shows on a media server and then use Plex to play them. When I find something I want to make into a gif I use ScreenToGif to capture the screen. It allows you to edit frames, add text, combine videos, etc. It’s not tough to do.
Holy carp. I stand totally corrected, I was looking at it on my phone and figured it had to be an mp4 you uploaded to Imgur. I’m looking at this sucker up close now on my laptop, and of course as you know, it’s an 8 bit Compuserve GIF. Video codecs don’t use LZW compression lol. Yeah, it’s a real nice-lookin GIF. Nice work!
When I find something I want to make into a gif I use ScreenToGif to capture the screen. It allows you to edit frames, add text, combine videos, etc. It’s not tough to do.
Thanks for posting this, ScreenToGif looks pretty awesome. It’s free and open source, which is a nice bonus. Now, if I could just find something like this for Linux…
Maybe you could help me? When I use ScreenToGif (on windows if that matters) they come out huge and with a play button and progress bar, like this. Do you know what I’m doing wrong or how to fix it?
It’s hard to say. When I record them I generally record at about 1200x700 with 144 DPI. Then when I save I save as Gif using the Neural Network setting. I leave most of the settings as default but sometimes I remove duplicate frames to help reduce the size.
EDIT: What resolution is your source video file? I know my Voyager episodes are 480p which is not ideal That will have a huge impact on the quality of the gifs. You also want to upload to a place like Imgur that allows larger gif sizes.
Hmm. I don’t see where to set the DPI. I also used the Neural Network setting and the defaults. I tried uploading to Imgur instead of to my computer and straight to Lemmy, no change. I don’t have a way to host videos, and the only platform that doesn’t black out video recordings is youtube, so that’s where I’ve been sourcing, it’s 240p. I wonder if it’s that I’m on Lemmy.world- I see you’re on Lemm.ee, I don’t know if that would make a difference.
Thanks! I store all of my Star Trek shows on a media server and then use Plex to play them. When I find something I want to make into a gif I use ScreenToGif to capture the screen. It allows you to edit frames, add text, combine videos, etc. It’s not tough to do.
Holy carp. I stand totally corrected, I was looking at it on my phone and figured it had to be an mp4 you uploaded to Imgur. I’m looking at this sucker up close now on my laptop, and of course as you know, it’s an 8 bit Compuserve GIF. Video codecs don’t use LZW compression lol. Yeah, it’s a real nice-lookin GIF. Nice work!
Thanks for posting this, ScreenToGif looks pretty awesome. It’s free and open source, which is a nice bonus. Now, if I could just find something like this for Linux…
Maybe you could help me? When I use ScreenToGif (on windows if that matters) they come out huge and with a play button and progress bar, like this. Do you know what I’m doing wrong or how to fix it?
It’s hard to say. When I record them I generally record at about 1200x700 with 144 DPI. Then when I save I save as Gif using the Neural Network setting. I leave most of the settings as default but sometimes I remove duplicate frames to help reduce the size.
EDIT: What resolution is your source video file? I know my Voyager episodes are 480p which is not ideal That will have a huge impact on the quality of the gifs. You also want to upload to a place like Imgur that allows larger gif sizes.
Hmm. I don’t see where to set the DPI. I also used the Neural Network setting and the defaults. I tried uploading to Imgur instead of to my computer and straight to Lemmy, no change. I don’t have a way to host videos, and the only platform that doesn’t black out video recordings is youtube, so that’s where I’ve been sourcing, it’s 240p. I wonder if it’s that I’m on Lemmy.world- I see you’re on Lemm.ee, I don’t know if that would make a difference.
Oh, well, thanks for the tips, I’ll keep trying!