Convert a short movie into a gif.
How to quickly and easily take a short film and turn it into a gif. Make or use an empty directory for the intermediate pictures. $ mkdir gifit $ cd !$ Move the movie to that directory Create the pictures: $ ffmpeg -i PICT0220.AVI -r 1 -f image2 %05d.png The pictures should all be the same size as they came from a movie. Now let's make an animated gif $ convert -delay 100 *.png hand.gif Note: check the documentation for the programs to get more possibilities. Split apart a gif and reassemble at a slower speed. convert a.gif %02d.png convert -delay 6 -loop 0 *.png animation.gif ffmpeg for other platforms: http://www.ffmpeg.org/download.html ==================== Another way to make videos. # Create a directory and copy the original images there for manipulation: mkdir temp cp *.JPG temp/. # Resize the images: mogrify -resize 200x200 temp/*.JPG # Create the morph images convert temp/*.JPG -delay 10 -morp...