SCREENTOGIF GIFSKI TRIAL

A grainy gif might look okay on the blog in a smaller size, or you might get a grid-like effect when you decrease the size. Additionally, unless you use a true color monitor how the colors will look heavily depends on individual devices, or the size we’re viewing the gifs in impacts the quality. Movement, colors, brightness or saturation all play a big role in the result and you have to be the judge on which to choose. In the end, how well these presets and compressions turn out depend on what kind of scene you’re giffing as well. Looks worse compared to other compressed files, but 13 MBs. Original file looks very clear and not grainy, but it’s 43 MBs so I wanted to upload on imgur.Īnd here are the compressed versions: Compressed version of HQ default. View post on This is done with System’s lower quality option. I’ll also add the results embedded as imgur links below: I mostly use GifCompressor (or sometimes I Love IMG, since the previous website have an upper limit of 50 MBs). The moral of the story is: don’t be like me and don’t clutter your blog!īefore I move on to post my results, compressing! You can see that the file sizes are huge except the gifski one (but the outcome looks horrible, I’ll get to that) so it’s important to compress your gifs before throwing it into your posts. Not only that, if you decide on downgrading your plan in the future for certain reasons, or want to take your time before renewing, if your media library is above the GB limit of a lower plan, you can’t post anything on your blog. Some of my older gifs were too big and weren’t compressed and when I encountered a problem with my blog, some of my posts with big gifs were a problem to restore by the WP people. Not just for faster loading, but if your blog is as image-heavy as mine, you might encounter technical problems later on. I also tried ScreentoGif’s high quality option and surprisingly got smaller file size compared to default, but forgot to take the screenshot.įile size is really important.

For ffmpeg, gifski, and system, I chose lower quality/smaller size options because it’s important to decrease the file size as much as you can. Below you can see the file sizes and how long it takes to use the options. Apart from the default presets that belongs to ScreentoGif, other extras can be easily downloaded through the software. There are different presets you can try out, I used some of the options for you. You got the frames you wanted, and now it’s time to encode the gif! When you click the ‘save as’ button above, you’ll get the adjusting options as seen on the right. As I got used to the software, I got a better sense of how the outcome would be like so I’m sure you’ll get better in no time as well. I have to mention though, the pace is a bit slower compared to the end result so there were times where the gif looked okay on the software, but on the actual gif, a certain scene was cut too short you only get a glimpse, which looks abrupt. On the lower right, you can see the play button that plays the frames consecutively to give you a sense of how your gif will look. You can manually pick the frames you want to delete or duplicate, so you don’t need to be super precise when you’re hitting the record button. After adjusting the settings, all you need to do is to click record, and then stop to record the portion you want to gif!Īfter you’re done with the recording, what you see are the frames screenshotted by the software. I leave it at 20 fps by default, sometimes increase to 25 if the gif is really short, and do further adjustments later on. The higher the value, the more frames will be added to your gif and smoother it will look, but the ending gif will have a larger file size. You can also see the fps (frame per second) value, which is again, pretty straightforward. It’s very useful because it gives you the option to gif a certain part of the video instead of the whole panel. It’s adjustable and records whatever’s in the frame. Without further ado I present you: Screen to Gif! It’s a very simple and straightforward software, I love it.Īfter launching the software, you can click on the recorder and get a window like the screenshot above. You might get better results depending on the different settings you choose, or discover features that I didn’t.

SCREENTOGIF GIFSKI TRIAL

It goes without saying that I don’t know what I’m doing, and what I’m sharing here are the results of my playing around with the software, all trial and error. Greetings!! It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything other than The Night Beyond the Tricornered Window and Tackt Op.Destiny, so I wanted to talk about an open source program I use to make my gifs.

Screentogif gifski