smartblur blurs or sharpens the video, “ls” means “luma_strength” - one of the smartblur options.scale sets the width and height, “-1” preserves aspect ratio.fps is a string describing output framerate (default “25”).-i is an input key that follows with the filename you want to convert.That was the simplest command, now let’s add visual filters to customize the output. In Terminal navigate to the folder with the video you want to convert and run the command to create a GIF.

Install FFmpeg running the following script in Terminal. Install Homebrew running the following script in Terminal. FFmpeg has good performance and can work with large files. Among online converters, it is one of the best, but it limits FPS depending on the video duration.

Ezgif has an upload limit of 2000 files and max file size of 6MB each or 100MB in total. Not to mention that it’s available only on Mac while FFmpeg is cross-platform and doesn’t have such limitations. Also, in the free version, it puts watermark and doesn’t make GIFs longer than 10 seconds. Giffox records only selected snippets of the screen but doesn’t allow to upload videos from a local folder. It’s time-consuming and Photoshop is not my primary design tool anyway, so I had to look for the other options. However, long and smooth animations have to be created using workarounds, as Photoshop has a 500 frames limit. I used to create GIFs in Adobe Photoshop. Thus, conversion settings have to be played with to balance image quality and file size. GIFs are restricted to 256 colors palette and lose quality when the complexity of animation increases. Despite many advantages, this file format has a number of limitations. High-quality animation on any platform for freeĬreated in 1987, GIF remains to be a widely used format for saving short and lightweight animations on the web.

Ffmpeg gif from pngs