

Skip the first 10 seconds of the video and make a 5 second gifĪdd -ss 10 and -t 5 to the ffmpeg command. - layers Optimize - : optimizes the resulting gif greatly reduces file size especially if the frames have a lot of similar images (e.g.-delay : specify the pause between frames I make this equal to -r option in ffmpeg.-vf scale=n:-1:flags=lanczos : I add this to the ffmpeg command when I want to force the gif to be a different resolution than the source video while keeping the quality high, n = frame width.-r : set the frame rate I make this equal to -delay option in convert.-t : duration specify the length of gif to create.

-ss : start time offset specify the time of the video to start extracting the frames/creating the gif.You can check the help or man pages of ffmpeg and convert for more details about the available options but here are a few that I’ve found to be the most useful. Most common conversions can be done with few simple steps: Extract streams from input file or create new streams with outside source (e.g. Ffmpeg -i -r 10 -f image2pipe -vcodec ppm - | convert -delay 10 -loop 0 -layers Optimize - C FFmpeg wrapper conception Xabe.FFmpeg uses only streams to operate on every media file.
