{"id":112,"date":"2012-02-14T17:13:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-14T17:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2260@johnjohnston.info\/blog\/"},"modified":"2012-05-20T18:06:58","modified_gmt":"2012-05-20T18:06:58","slug":"movie2gif","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/movie2gif\/","title":{"rendered":"Movie2Gif"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Sherlock <\/p>\n

I am reusing an old post<\/a> as I though it might do for a DS106 Tutorial. <\/p>\n

I’ve used this application for both creating gifs from short sections of movies and form video footage shot on my phone.<\/p>\n

Last year I was following some of the DS106 fun and playing with animation gifs. Instead of using photoshop or the like I fell upon the command line application
\n Gifsicle<\/a> which works very well indeed on OSX<\/span> (and is available for lots of other platforms) Gifsicle is \u00a9 Eddie Kohler<\/a>. <\/p>\n

I wanted to speed up my workflow<\/s> playflow<\/strong> for messing about in this way and though of SuperCard<\/a>, my favourite mac application. I’ve used SuperCard to create a simple application (mac only) that will, load a Quicktime compatible movie, grab a short selection of frames, and create an animated gif with a few mouse clicks. The SuperCard bit grabs the frames and then used the gifsicle app (which it contains) to create animated gifs. <\/p>\n

I’ve tested the application only briefly on a few different macs (10.4, 10.5 & 10.6 or tiger, Leopard and mostly Snow Leopard) and it seem to work. On the old G4 10.4 machine there is a wee bit of lag grabbing the frames, but it works out ok. Update<\/strong> I’ve made a new build that works on Lion (2012-02-14).<\/p>\n

There are very few features, the application will grab 10 frames and you can choose to grab them every 1-20 frames. It will export a selection of these 10 frames and allows you to do some simple colour reduction. <\/p>\n

Here is a screencast: <\/p>\n

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