Show HN: Gifify – Convert any video file to an optimized animated GIF

Next, take the Gifify output, upload to gfycat to get a optimised video file. Repeat until convergence.

Here's my own video -> gif bash script: https://github.com/montanaflynn/vidtogif

And here's a one-liner using ffmpeg and ImageMagick:

  ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vf scale=600:-1 -r 5 -f image2pipe -vcodec ppm - | convert - gif:- | convert -layers Optimize - output.gif

If you want to create a gif that represents the complete video in a short gif loop have a look at https://github.com/marlev/gifserver

"I spent hours googling for a service that creates an animated gif from a video, that represents the complete video. I only found solutions that animated the first 10 frames, the first 30 seconds etc. So i decided to create gifserverthat will represent the complete video with 9 looping frames,no matter how long the original file is."

Why are you using that fork of gifsicle? I went to that repo to read the homepage but it was the unchanged gifsicle README.

The people at Buzzfeed will love it :)

gifify now supports subtitles and can extract 5 seconds from a 2 hours movies in less than 20 seconds.

HF with GIFS