Then go through and remove the images at the start and the end that you don’t want in the final gif.In case you used any other format to output them, I use one line of imagemagick’s mogrify to convert them: You now should have a directory full of stills.
#Gifsicle overlay gif driver#
You can put them into whatever directory you want of course.įor some reason the I don’t have the gif89a video output driver installed on my OS X computer, so I instead use png or jpeg in the place of gif89a up there. The next bit says to output gifs (that’s gif89a into the directory called “gif”.
#Gifsicle overlay gif mac os#
On Mac OS X, first install the Homebrew package manager, and then install these programs withīrew install mplayer imagemagick gifsicle Sudo apt-get install mplayer imagemagick gifsicle On Ubuntu (or most anything Debian-based with large enough repositories - these are common programs) it should just be a matter of Make sure you have the programs installed. So I’ve worked out a process that uses the command line and requires only the programs mplayer, imagemagick, and gifsicle. But because I don’t always have access to a bunch of graphics software, and because I might be using my Ubuntu or OS X box, it’s nice to have a process that works with widely- and freely-available free software command line tools. Sometimes I see a few seconds of a video I’m watching and I think that it’d make a great animated gif. The -loopcount is set to 3, meaning the GIF actually plays 4 times (original, then 3 loops).HOWTO: Create an animated gif from a video with command line tools Gifsicle jack-slow.gif -loopcount=3 > herrera-wtf-four-plays.gif Loop a GIF TimesĪnother gifsicle command line option, -loopcount, allows for you to set any number as the loop count of the image: The resulting GIF plays once and then stops:Ĭlick the image above to restart it. Gifsicle herrera-wtf.gif -no-loopcount > herrera-wtf-once.gif
Gifsicle provides a -no-loopcount option when you process a GIF: Say you have an animated GIF and you only want to limit the number of times the GIF can loop, or even prevent looping of the GIF - it's super simple with gifsicle! Prevent GIF Looping
#Gifsicle overlay gif how to#
One bit of information that has eluded me is how to control the loop count of an animated GIF.
We all know animated GIFs put the "fun" in "functional." I've recently written incredible posts with regard to animated GIF images, including:
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