![]() It's a great open source utility from GITHUB. My approach usually would involve using a screen capture software, editing and than convert, This may be rather time consuming and quite cumbersome if you are trying to make a quick GIF of the CLI. ![]() There are multiple methods to go about this. This entry was posted in html5, osx, plone, python and tagged gif, h264, mpeg4, osx, quicktime, screen capture, screen recording, screenshot, subpixel antialiasing, video by Mikko Ohtamaa. Subscribe to RSS feed Follow me on Twitter Follow me on Facebook Follow me Google+ However, if you want to create even more perfect results there is a way: a custom Javascript, PNG and JSON driven animation as demonstrated by the author Sublime Text 2, Jon Skinner. Small GIFs are suitable for most of the UI screen recording purposes. Going beyond GIFs with custom Javascript animation code For me, it provided 33% saving in the GIF size for GIFBrewery exported files.ħ. ImageOptim is an OSX application which will optimize all dragged and dropped images in place. The easiest way to test the setting on Finder is: killall Finder # Will autorestart 6. You need to restart the applications after changing this setting. ![]() To turn back the default setting: defaults -currentHost delete -globalDomain AppleFontSmoothing To turn it off in Terminal: defaults -currentHost write -globalDomain AppleFontSmoothing -int 2 You might want to turn off this for screen recordings, as subpixel antialiasing is tied to (your own) monitor and may create funny looking color artifacts on other displays when your recording is being viewed. OSX may do font subpixel antialiasing by default ( some more info). FPS is not usually critical factor for screen recordings where your purpose is to demostrate the UI element interaction. Set animated GIF frames per second to low number like 3 -5 frames per second. You can do further cropping in GIFBrewery. Resize your browser window, zoom out fonts, use lower resolution and such tricks. Try to make the target area as small as possible. Note: I had a bug in GIFBrewery where the animation colors got screwed up if I tried to to move starting frame (probably related to h264 key framing?). You could do it by hand with free software, but GIFBrewery provides nice “tune settings and see live preview” style functionality which saves a lot of your valuable time. I found GIFBrewery (~5 USD) suitable for this purpose. mov file needs to be post-processed to animated GIF. Converting the screen capture video to animated GIF Just choose File > New Screen Recording and choose the area which you want to recordĢ. Screencast videos can be recorded with OSX’s own QuickTime player – no additional applications needed (since OSX Lion?). QuickTime player works scaring well. Here are short instructions how to create animated GIF screen recordings on OSX.
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