Video->Animated Gif?

[AJHunter]

Question: Is there any software out there for ubuntu that converts video into animated gifs?

[HappinessNow]

question: Is there any software out there for ubuntu that converts video into animated gifs?
gimp

[AJHunter]

Automatically?

[Psumi]

Automatically?

Flash.

Oh wait, you wanted linux.

Oh wait, you wanted automatically.

[hessiess]

Why would you want to, GIF is awful, it only supports 256 colours, and produces much larger files. Codecs like h264, or even Theora produce much better quality with a much smaller file size.

If its for the web, use a flash video player like Flowplayer, at least until HTML5 is standardised.

[Psumi]

Why would you want to, GIF is awful, it only supports 256 colours, and produces much larger files. Codecs like h264, or even Theora produce much better quality with a much smaller file size.

If its for the web, use a flash video player like Flowplayer, at least until HTML5 is standardised.

Animated Avatar?

[hessiess]

Animated Avatar?

Maby, but in that case doing it manually with GIMP wouldn't be too difficult.

video -> ffmpeg convert to image sequence -> GIMP -> animated GIF.

[AJHunter]

Animated Avatar?
EXACTLY! That, and just to have an animated gif of what I want.

[fromthehill]

softwares can't crawl into your brain to figure out exactly what you want, so this is as automated as it's going to get

cut out the frames you want with avidemux
open the frames as layers in gimp

resize, crop, whatever you want (put '(XXXms)' into the layer title to change how long a frame will be displayed)

you can view the animation in gimp with filters>animation>playback
if you're finished, optimize the image with filters>animation>Optimize(for gif)

save the optimized file as gif. gimp will ask if you want to save it as a flat file or animation
http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/5537/screenshot22.png

[Psumi]

EXACTLY! That, and just to have an animated gif of what I want.

Too bad you can't have animated avatars on this forum unless you're staff.