clipGif

Just a simple wrapper to automate the creation of animated gifs from video clips. It uses/requires ffmpeg to pull the frames out of the video file and gifsicle to assemble the frames into an animated gif.

Features

• specify delay between frames
• rewind (to create seemless loops
• all work is done in a temp directory
• the temporary directory and the finished GIF are opened (this is the OSX specific pieces)
• creates a bash script named "reGif.command" to enable recreation of the GIF after manual removal (or editing of frames)

Planned Features

• Handle other POSIX OS's better
• calculate/translate seconds into the duration string
• non-looping gifs

Usage

clipGif InputFile StartTime Length [FrameDelay] [Rewind]

• InputFile: the video file to use as input
• StartTime: where to begin extracting frames, in the form of HH:MM:SS
• Length: how long of a clip to extract, in the form of HH:MM:SS
• FrameDeloy (optional): the delay between frames
• Rewind (optional): Whether or not to add reverse playback. This creates seemless loops.