

It has to be used from the command line, and every command needs an input and an output which are formatted in bold and italic, the other options that i’m going to add are in red, and i’m going to explain them and put a link to the official ffmpeg’s documentation. Now this great software can do many more stuff and can be extremely complicated, but i’m going to explain just what we need here and no more.

Luckily for us we have a free, open source and extremely powerful software named FFMPEG that can also convert a video to gif quite easily. On the other side images are easy to both be uploaded/embedded to a website and to be displayed by who’s surfing the web.Ī GIF (Graphical Interchange Format) can contain frames, like a video, so it can be animated as a video, but it’s, in fact, an image format. Sometimes it’s useful to display videos instead of images to show certain things.īut a video requires a player and not every browsers are capable to play all kind of videos, whose can have many different formats and codecs.
