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    Hi folks! I am fairly new here. I've figured out how to make my own gifs in photoshop.

    However, ever since I started filming in 1080p, my gifs are enormous ... like a short gif will be 10MB, and they take a while to load on clips4sale. I think it's impacting my sales.

    I've been filming "device native" with my logitech c920, then exporting in 1080p and editing that way and exporting as a 1080p HD and 480p SD mp4. Then I take the SD edited mp4 and edit it to make a shorter mp4 for making a gif, which ends up around 3-4MB, and import it to photoshop as layers. Then the resulting gif in photoshop is usually ~10MB. (I'm using about 380-400 pixels as the longest dimension of the gif.)

    I tried only using every other frame for the gif, and the animation looked choppy, so I don't want to do that. I also tried making the gif 64 colors and the color looked flat.

    How do other people get these beautiful, long, colorful gifs that are only 3MB or so?

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    Default Re: Reducing gif size? for clip gifs

    I'm a command line oriented person, so I tend to use ffmpeg. ffmpeg seems to make decent enough animated GIFs for me from an existing video file. ffmpeg is not easy to use but flexible if you can decipher the complex options. I just search for what I'm trying to do and stackoverflow usually shows the command options for doing it. If it doesn't work, I keep trying arguments until it does.

    https://ffmpeg.org/

    https://davidwalsh.name/convert-video-gif
    http://superuser.com/questions/55602...onable-quality
    http://blog.pkh.me/p/21-high-quality...th-ffmpeg.html

    If your image frames are separate image files, you could turn them into an animated GIF with gifsicle. Another command line program. I've never used it though.

    https://www.lcdf.org/gifsicle/

    You have to look for the Windows or Mac builds as the .tar.bz2 files are for Linux.

    Those apps are pretty smart for compressing the GIFs down, but they'll still be huge files. You have to scale down the resolution, crop the videos or skip frames to get them smaller. Choosing parts of the video that have less movement in the background also helps.

    Clips4Sale keeps their thumbnail GIFs small by using a very small resolution size and they make the video as a slideshow. It's just a series of screenshots that each play for a second.

    There are webpages that will do the conversions also, but I don't want to upload nude videos to them. I keep my intermediate files local and only upload finished files to wherever I'm hosting them.

    Maybe someone else can suggest an easier graphical oriented app.
    Last edited by Bristol; 06-28-2016 at 10:57 PM.
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    Default Re: Reducing gif size? for clip gifs

    I find this webpage does it fine for me, from mp4 to gif and keeps it small:

    http://ezgif.com/maker

    There's also options to crop, resize, split or add text to the gif before saving it.

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    Default Re: Reducing gif size? for clip gifs

    I use http://download.cnet.com/Free-Video-...-75628588.html

    It's super easy to use. I think c4s gif size is 330x248.

    Basically you import the video and pick about 10-15 seconds in the video where you want the gif taken from then make it about 12 fps. Save as high quality and you're good.

    My gifs look really good and are taken right from the video so the quality still looks great. I think this is the easiest way to make gifs, especially if you're not so tech savvy =p

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