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High quality .gif screen recording on macOS
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instructions.md
  • Spotlight > QuickTime Player
  • File > New Screen Recording
  • Click Record, select screen area, click Start Recording
  • Record video, click Stop in macOS toolbar
  • File > Save... > video.mov
  • Run mkgif.sh video.mov 15 400 (15 FPS, 400px width)
  • Output is video.gif
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mkgif.sh
#!/bin/bash
set -euf -o pipefail
file=$1
fps=${2:-15}
width=${3:-400}
out=$(dirname "$file")/$(basename "$file" .mov).gif
ffmpeg -i "$1" -vf "fps=$fps,scale=$width:-1:flags=lanczos,palettegen" palette.png
ffmpeg -i "$1" -i palette.png -filter_complex "fps=$fps,scale=$width:-1:flags=lanczos[x];[x][1:v]paletteuse" "$out"
rm palette.png
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