
(I also start 40 seconds in "-ss 40" for the Sintel video, i.e. ffmpeg -i "myVideo.mp4" -vf scale=360:-1 "myNewGif.gif"Īlso it's unlikely you'll want the whole video turned into a GIF too, so I'm going to limit it to a 30 second snippet. So let's tone things down a bit, the exact same command, just down-scaling the video so it doesn't turn out so darn large. The simplest way to turn a video into a GIF is with the following command: ffmpeg -i "myVideo.mp4" "myNewGif.gif"īut being GIF's this creates a HUGE file in comparison to the video itself. I'll be using the 4k version of Sintel which you can find here:

( Warning, the media on this page comes to 66MB and the majority is of GIF files, your PC may slow down.) but I'm going to show you how anyway! So let's begin,


Ever wanted to convert a video into a GIF?!
