How to create high-quality animated GIF images by converting videos with Shotcut and setting their resolution and frame rate in advance
animated pictures in gif they were the only objects that moved around web pages in the early days of the internet. In the following years, they fell into oblivion, as they are much heavier than the videos they were progressively replaced by. Recently they are having a second life because they are supported by the most famous social networks like
Facebook and Twitter and because they can be viewed immediately without any action on the part of the user.
O gif they are nothing more than a succession of images that are displayed at a distance of fractions of a second. They can be created with graphics programs such as GIMP
AND photoshop. If the playback duration of the individual frames that make up the gif is greater than 1/20 of a second, then the human eye perceives it in jerks.
animated pictures in gif can also be carried out
video conversion. Thus, its movement will only be fluid if the frame rate Sara higher for the
20fps. There are many free tools available online to
create and edit GIFs
however, these tools are often unable to create animations
gif from high quality.
Especially the GIF Resolution result is significantly smaller than the video it was converted from. In this post we will see how to create animated images in
gif of the highest quality with
shotcut.
In fact, unlike online tools, with shotcut
we will be able to define in advance resolution AND
frame rate of gif as a result of a video conversion. In addition to the quality of the gif will be comparable to the video without those areas of color that do not match the original due to an inadequate number of colors.
I posted on
Youtube channel
a tutorial in which I illustrate how to create gif high quality video conversion.
Remember to install shotcut you go up Click to downloadthe advertising banner closes, then a user of a computer in the
Microsoft
click on the link windows installer on one of two mirror sites GitHubGenericName AND fosshub.
A file will be downloaded .exe double-click on it and follow the dialog boxes to complete the installation of the program that will open with the interface in Italian. To check the
video values from convert to GIF click on it with right mouse button so go up
Property and open the tab Details.
We will then display your duration, your
resolution
and yours frame rate. As a test for the post I made a video of 8 seconds with 1920 x 1080 pixels resolution and 30fps of the frame rate. The duration of
8 seconds
is close to the maximum allowed to convert a video to
gif. With longer durations, the file would become very heavy.
he lets himself go shotcut and you go to the top menu
Settings -> Video Mode. You then choose one
resolution it is a frame rate compatible with the original. As the human eye fluidly displays the entire succession of frames that are reproduced with a frequency equal to or greater than
20 frames per secondI recommend choosing a frame rate of no more than 24fps. In this case the resolution
1920 x 1080 pixels is given HD 1080p.
Optionally, you can go to the bottom of the top menu
Custom -> Addname the video mode and set a frame rate of 20fps. Then the
gif exported will result lighter and with
equal quality.
After correcting these settings, you go up
Playlist and drag the video to convert into the window of the same name in the upper left corner. The same file is then dragged into the Timeline where a track will be created.
At this point, just climb To explore, in the menu, to open the presets always in the top left corner. Inside Assortment you choose
GIF animation
then you go up export file Open
file explorer.
you choose the output folderfrom the
a name for the file then you go up To save and waits for the end of encoding the gif you will see the completion percentage in the window Activities in the upper right corner of the layout.
To play the gif you can double-click it to open it with the default program for gifgenerally the application Photograph for the Windows PC. Alternatively, we can make the default for gif
the app
IrfanView. To complete the information, the video 8 seconds from which I started had a weight of
6.71MB. There gif exported at a frame rate of
24fps heavy
243 MB
and the one with 20fps had a weight of 202 MB.
