Ubuntu records 30s .webm screencasts in Videos Folder via Ctrl+Shift+Alt+R, automatically convert them to GIF in Pictures Folder, and delete video file

toGIF.md

Make GIF ScreenCasts of 30s

Ubuntu records 30s .webm screencasts in Videos Folder via Ctrl+Shift+Alt+R, automatically convert them to GIF in Pictures Folder, and delete video file

Make sure to have ffmpeg installed

• Save the toGIF.sh in your Videos folder, link
• make it executable chmod +x ~/Videos/toGIF.sh
• Go to Settings ---> Keyboard Shortcuts ---> New ShortCut
• Set a new shortcut like this

note: the command should be the path to shell script

• now whenever you take short screencasts, via default Ctrl+Shift+Alt+R, execute the Shift+Ctrl+ALt+G
• the script will run in background and convert all .webm in Videos folder to .gif in Pictures Folder, and delete video file.
• Please let the screencast finish, and then initiate the conversion to GIF, otherwise, the GIF will be incomplete and the video will get deleted before its 30s duration.

Please take a look below for better understanding.

Step 1

Step 2

toGIF.sh

#!/bin/bash
cd /home/aahnik/Videos
for f in *.webm;
do 
ffmpeg -i "$f" ../Pictures/"$f"_gif.gif;
rm "$f";
done