

The only caveat I can think of is it doesn't let you choose the recording codec, only the quality. Oh, and it records mouse presses as metadata, so you can export with or without those present. Keeps all the source videos stored away in case you want to come back to them. Capture process is smooth, handles decent size at 60fps on my Macbook Pro.

It records everything as video and has a bunch of video export options and also a nice gif export. It has replaced both Licecap and Photoshop for me for pretty much every gif I do.

The best complete package i've found (not free: $30 USD). But I haven't used it in years and can't compare them directly now. Once upon a time I use to use Fireworks over Photoshop as it had a way better gif export. The Photoshop save for web tends to allocate colours really well and get the filesize down. Import that into Photoshop and save for web to Gif. Frame it and edit it to exactly what you want in Premiere or Final Cut. Record the entire screen at the highest quality. Highest quality results (but the most time consuming). There are 3 methods that I've landed on each with different advantages:įree and handles decent sized 60fps gifs quite well. Or not allow you to change the colour table method and do it based on the first frame only. There are a lot of promising and elegant looking programs that end up having trouble capturing a decent size at 60fps without dropping frames. I can only speak for OSX, but I've tried a lot of different methods. Gifsicle -colors 256 -O2 _tmp.gif -o out.gif Gm convert -delay $delay -loop 0 $(ls *.png | sort -V) _tmp.gif Read w h x y <<<$(xwininfo -stats | grep geometry | grep -o '\" %09d.pngĪfter picking out the frames I want, and deleting the rest, I'll combine the result into an optimized gif like this: #!/bin/bash I use this script to snap a bunch of frames of a specific window: #!/bin/bash These are just some scripts I quickly put together, suggestions appreciated. Use QuickTime player to record a video.ScreenToGif (thanks to for the suggestion).If you have any suggestions please leave a reply. By editing the window-dimensions, you can adjust the GIF size. I'm on Linux, so I can't vouch for the tools on for the other platforms. LICECap is an animator that lets you create animations by following the basic concept behind animation, i.e., you can set FPS (Frames per second) rate. Since many people on itch.io used animated cover images I figure we should have a thread with some GIF creating resources.
