Awesome GIF

A curated list of awesome GIF resources.

A list of tools, scripts, libraries, examples & other resources related to the Graphics Interchange Format (GIF).

General Tools

FFmpeg
ImageMagick
GraphicsMagick - GraphicsMagick is usually faster than ImageMagick.
MoviePy - Python module for video editing.

Utilities

Gifgen - Simple high quality GIF encoding.
Gifify - Convert screen recording into GIF.
Gifs - Storage place for GIFs.
Gifshot - Create animated GIFs from media by Yahoo. (demo)
Gifsockets - Real Time communication library using Animated GIFs as a transport.
X-gif - A web component for flexible GIF playback.
GifW00t - JavaScript web recorder.
gif-machine - GIF creation from YouTube videos.
gifstreaming - Live video streaming server.
Screengif - Create animated GIF screencasts.
vnc-over-gif - Serves screen updates as animated GIF over http.
gifdeck - Convert your SlideShares into animated GIFs.
Gifbot - GIF search for Slack.
Gif-camera - Create animated GIFs using webcam.
Gifline - Chrome extension to put GIFs in your emails.
Gifdrop - Create a repository for your collection of GIF images.
Gh-gif - NodeGH plugin for commenting on pull requests/issues using GIF reactions.
Tty2gif - Record scripts and their outputs into both binary and GIF formats.
Giftoppr - Sync your favourite GIFs with Dropbox.
Gifit - Chrome extension to make a GIF from a YouTube video.
Ccapture.js - Capture animations created with HTML5 canvas.
Kap - Beautiful open-source app to capture your screen and export to GIF.
Gifit (the other one) - Get a search resulting giphy GIF in markdown in stdout, ala $ gifit kittens.
gifski - High-quality GIF encoder based on libimagequant.
Gifcurry - Open-source, Haskell-built editor for GIF makers.

Libraries

ActionScript

Flash Animated GIF Library - AS3 library for playing Animated GIFs in Flash.

C++

Node-gif - C++ library to make GIF.
Gif-h - C++ one-header library for the creation of animated GIFs.
msf_gif - C/C++ single-header library for creating animated GIFs.

C#

dot-screencap - A simple libary to record your screen and save it as animated GIF.
WpfAnimatedGif - A simple library to display animated GIF images in WPF.
XamlAnimatedGif - A simple library to display animated GIF images in XAML apps (WPF, WinRT, Windows Phone).
AnimatedGif - A high performance .NET library for reading and creating animated GIFs.

Haxe

Gif - Haxe GIF encoder.

Java

Android-gif-drawable - Views and Drawable for displaying animated GIFs on Android.
gifanimateddrawable - Use an animated GIF as an Android Drawable.
GifView - Android library to deal with GIF.
Gif Movie View - Android View widget for displaying GIF animations.
GifImageView - Android ImageView that handles animated GIF images.
Gif-animation - Processing library to play and export GIF.
Android-gif-encoder - Animated GIF encoder for Android.
GIFDroid - Android video to GIF converter.
Android-GifStitch - Create and share animated GIFs.

JavaScript

Gif.js - Create GIF from the DOM.
Omggif - GIF 89a encoder and decoder.
Animated_GIF - JavaScript library for creating animated GIFs.
Gifffer - JavaScript library that prevents the autoplaying of the animated GIFs.
Gifplayer - JQuery plugin to play and stop animated GIFs.
Jsgif - JavaScript GIF parser and player.
node-gify - JavaScript convert videos to GIFs using ffmpeg and gifsicle.
Gifencoder - Server side animated GIF generation for Node.js.
Gif-video - JavaScript Convert a GIF image into an HTML5-ready video.
Gif-player - On-demand GIF loader/player in JavaScript.
GifgifLab-face - Facial-emotion detectors.
node-youtube - YouTube to snapshots and GIFs.

PHP

GifCreator - PHP class that creates animated GIF from multiple images.
Spacer.gif - PHP script offering spacer.gif 1x1.
GifFrameExtractor - PHP class that separates all the frames of an animated GIF.

Objective-C

UIimage from GIF - UIImage category that loads animated GIFs.
GIFRefreshControl - "Twitter music" and "Yahoo! Weather" like pull-to-refresh control.
UIImageView-PlayGIF - UIImageView category/subclass for playing GIF.
FLAnimatedImage - GIF engine for iOS by FlipBoard.
Animated-GIF-iPhone - Support for Animated GIF on iOS.
UzysAnimatedGifPullToRefresh - PullToRefresh using animated GIF to any scrollView.
SvGifView - iOS load and display GIF.
GifHUD - iOS progress hud for displaying only animated GIF images.
Video-Background GIF - iOS Video Background GIF.
AnimatedGifExample - iOS animated and transparent GIFs.

Swift

SwiftyGif - High performance & easy to use Gif engine.
Gifu - Animated GIF support for iOS in Swift.

GUI

Glyph - Tool for generating seamlessly looping GIFs and cinemagraphs from videos.
Qgifer
GifPro - GIF encoder for Mac.

Hosting

Gfycat - Maximum GIF/video length: 15 seconds. Maximum file upload is 300Mb.
Imgur - Maximum file upload is 50MB.

Online Tools

Vid2gif - Video to GIF by imgur.
EzGif - Online GIF maker and image editor.
Giflr - A web app for making or remixing animated GIFs.

Community

Scripts

Frames to GIF

FFmpeg

ffmpeg -f image2 -i image%d.jpg animated.gif

Imagemagick

convert   -delay 20   -loop 0   frames*.png   animated.gif

Bash script (frames2gif.sh) for GraphicsMagick, ImageMagick, FFmpeg

#!/bin/bash
if [ $# -ne 5 ]; then
    echo "please provide the moviename and directory where to store the frames"
    echo "./frames2gif.sh [directory] [movie.mp4] [filename.gif] [gm|im|ffmpeg] [png|jpg]"
    exit 1
fi
    if [ "png" == "$5" ]; then
        suffix="png"
    else
        suffix="jpg"
    fi

    CONVERT=$(which convert)
    GM=$(which gm)
    FFMPEG=$(which ffmpeg)
    FFPROBE=$(which ffprobe)
    FPS=$($FFPROBE -show_streams -select_streams v -i "$2"  2>/dev/null | grep "r_frame_rate" | cut -d'=' -f2 | cut -d'/' -f1)
    echo "FPS: ${FPS}"
if [ "im" == "$4" ]; then # use imagemagick
    FPS=$(echo "1 / ${FPS} * 100" |bc -l)
    $CONVERT "$1/*.${suffix}"  -delay ${FPS} -loop 0 "$3"
elif [ "gm" == "$4" ]; then # use graphicsmagick
    FPS=$(echo "1 / ${FPS} * 100" |bc -l)
    $GM convert "$1/*.${suffix}"  -delay ${FPS} -loop 0 "$3"
else # use crappy gif-algorithm from ffmpeg
    $FFMPEG -f image2 -framerate ${FPS} -i "$1/%08d.${suffix}" "$3"
fi

From DeepDreamVideo, source

GIF to frames

ffmpeg -i video.mpg image%d.jpg

convert -coalesce animated.gif image%05d.png

High quality GIF

with ffmpeg / based on this article

Generate a palette :

#!/bin/sh
start_time=30
duration=3
ffmpeg -y -ss $start_time -t $duration -i input.avi \
-vf fps=10,scale=320:-1:flags=lanczos,palettegen palette.png

Output the GIF using the palette :

#!/bin/sh
start_time=30
duration=3
ffmpeg -ss $start_time -t $duration -i input.avi -i palette.png -filter_complex \
"fps=10,scale=320:-1:flags=lanczos[x];[x][1:v]paletteuse" output.gif

Optimize GIF

convert -layers Optimize output.gif output_optimized.gif

Lossy GIF Compressor

./gifsicle -O3 --lossy=80 -o lossy-compressed.gif input.gif

Lossy Gif

Making GIF from video

from moviepy.editor import *

clip = (VideoFileClip("input.avi")
        .subclip((4,00.00),(5,00.00))
        .resize(0.3))
clip.write_gif("output.gif")

article

Cinemagraphs

Freezing a region

from moviepy.editor import *

clip = (VideoFileClip("input.avi")
        .subclip((4,00.00),(5,00.00))
        .resize(0.3)
        .fx(vfx.freeze_region, outside_region=(170, 230, 380, 320)))
clip.write_gif("output.gif", fps=15)

article

ffmpeg \
-ss ${starttime} -t ${duration} -i ${vidfile}                         `# body of loop` \
-ss TODO ${starttime} MINUS ${duration} -t ${fadetime} -i ${vidfile}  `# lead-in for crossfade` \
-loop 1 -i ${stillfile}                                               `# masked still image` \
-filter_complex "
  [0:v]setpts=PTS-STARTPTS[vid];                                      `# speed adjustment - not needed here, so noop`
  color=white,scale=3840x2160,fade=in:st=0:d=${fadetime}[alpha];      `# crossfade alpha, double length ahead of speed change`
  [1:v][alpha]alphamerge[am];                                         `# apply alpha to lead-in`
  [am]setpts=PTS+(${duration}-${fadetime})/TB[layer2];                  `# speed adjustment and offset for lead-in`
  [vid][layer2]overlay[oo];                                           `# overlay for crossfade`
  [oo][2:v]overlay=shortest=1[out1];                                  `# overlay still image`
  [out1]crop=w=${cropfactor}*iw:h=${cropfactor}*ih:y=${yoffset}*ih,scale=${outputwidth}:-1, `# crop and scale`
  eq=gamma=${gamma}:contrast=${contrast}:saturation=${saturation},unsharp                   `# final adjustments`
" -an output.mp4

Perfect Loop

import moviepy.editor as mp
from moviepy.video.tools.cuts import FramesMatches

clip = mp.VideoFileClip("input.avi").resize(0.3)
scenes = FramesMatches.from_clip(clip, 10, 3)

selected_scenes = scenes.select_scenes(2, 1, 4, 0.5)
selected_scenes.write_gifs(clip.resize(width=450), "./outputs_directory")

article

YouTube video to GIF

Download it via youtube-dl and then convert it.

youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2XpsaLqXc8

Youtube-dl

Grabbing each frame of an HTML5 Canvas

Using PhantomJS.

Example with this canvas.

var webPage = require('webpage');
var fs = require('fs');
var page = webPage.create();

var NB_FRAME = 100;
var current = 0;

page.open('https://www.effectgames.com/demos/canvascycle/?sound=0',
function(status) {
  if (status === "success") {
      var current = 0;
      var grabber = setInterval(function () {
          var frame = page.evaluate(function() {
           return document.getElementById('mycanvas').toDataURL("image/png").split(",")[1];
          });
          fs.write("./frame-" + current + ".png",atob(frame), 'wb');
      if (++current === NB_FRAME) {
         window.clearInterval(grabber);
         phantom.exit(0);
      }
    }, 1000);
  }
});

Miscellaneous

Why is the GIF I created so slow? - Using ImageMagick to solve problems concerning GIF speed.

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By Craig Davison and contributors.

Based on a recovered list by Ismail Baaj.

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Frames to GIF

GIF to frames

High quality GIF

Optimize GIF

Lossy GIF Compressor

Making GIF from video

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Perfect Loop

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C#

Haxe

Java

JavaScript

PHP

Objective-C

Swift

GUI

Hosting

Online Tools

Community

Scripts

Frames to GIF

GIF to frames

High quality GIF

Optimize GIF

Lossy GIF Compressor

Making GIF from video

Cinemagraphs

Perfect Loop

YouTube video to GIF

Grabbing each frame of an HTML5 Canvas

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