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leafo · 2015-12-28T01:50:19Z

Since many people on itch.io used animated cover images I figure we should have a thread with some GIF creating resources. I'm on Linux, so I can't vouch for the tools on for the other platforms. If you have any suggestions please leave a reply. Windows GifCam [free] LICEcap [free] ScreenToGif [free] (thanks to @DazEdword for the suggestion) OSX LICEcap [free] GIF Brewery [paid] Use QuickTime player to record a video [free] Linux These are just some scripts I quickly put together, suggestions appreciated. I use this script to snap a bunch of frames of a specific window: #!/bin/bash read w h x y <<<$(xwininfo -stats | grep geometry | grep -o '[0-9]\{1,\}') echo "Recording ${w}x${h} at ${x},${y}..." ffmpeg -f x11grab -r 25 -s "${w}x${h}" -i ":0.0+${x},${y}" %09d.png After picking out the frames I want, and deleting the rest, I'll combine the result into an optimized gif like this: #!/bin/bash delay=3 gm convert -delay $delay -loop 0 $(ls *.png | sort -V) _tmp.gif gifsicle --colors 256 -O2 _tmp.gif -o out.gif rm _tmp.gif

A topic by leafo created Dec 28, 2015 Views: 28,625 Replies: 28

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KeyboardKrieger3 years ago(+2)

I want to add my 2cents. I personally just use this converter: https://ezgif.com/video-to-gif

I record the video with Unitys build in Recorder, cut it like I want and than upload it on that page, to create a gif.

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Jackyfied3 years ago

Gyazo is good too

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investus.itch.io1 year ago (5 edits)

Allow: .webm for animations, Yes? Like: .gif , info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebM

and allow .webp .avif for images dev info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebP

(short >256 color paletts/gradients, less jpg artifacts effects, smaller than png)

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Eldwood32 days ago

.webm is a video format that can include audio. On a properly configured web browser, it should require an extra click to play because it is never acceptable for a web browser to auto-play videos with audio. It is therefore not a replacement for animated image formats (gif, apng) which never contain audio and can be auto-played.

(Lossless) .webp, on the other hand, should be the default image format everywhere.