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Big fan, as a very active GitHub user the conversion to GIF for screen grabs had been a constant paper-cut

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Use Licecap. It creates super-lightweight GIFs if there’s not much movement.

For mac? I have problems seeing any good download site.

Yes, for mac. The first link on their product page [0] has a download for mac [1]

[0] https://www.cockos.com/licecap/ [1] https://www.cockos.com/licecap/licecap131.dmg

Is it really that hard to use screen2gif?

Gif is a dumb waste of bandwidth and space.

gifs are hard to look good and make small, in my experience

ffmpeg has the best gif output I've found.

Still much larger than the equivalent video, and without any audio or pause/scrub functionality.

But it's still big. And if you try to get a decent one to sub-1MB, you'll likely either have to sacrifice quality quite a bit. Especially if the gif is anything complicated.

ffmpeg can work videos down much better

It's really hard to make it output small videos with audio!

As a past user of Screen2Gif I can say on Windows ShareX does a very good job of screen capture and recording.

Does it work well with high dpi screens now? Last time I tried to use ShareX it didn't handle 150% scaling well. Cursor alignment was a all over the place.

take a look at this hack for FFMPEG https://github.com/rdp/screen-capture-recorder-to-video-wind...

sharex only provides a MITM utility for ffmpeg, any issue is likely to come from either GDIGrab, or the linked screen-capture-recorder utilites (which are provided within sharex as an optional download)

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