Gifsicle in gimp install#
Gifsicle in gimp plus#

-unoptimize converts the original (optimized) GIF frames, which each only contain a diff to the previous frame, to normal one-complete-image-per-frame frames (if you leave that out, and then cut images away, you’ll get very interesting animations ) ).

Simply overwriting results in a non-animated GIF file.

Don’t overwrite the animated GIF, choose Export to… instead.

It’s possible to adapt the timing by renaming the layers – the values in the layer names are actually used for saving to animated GIF.

Doesn’t work with some older byzanz versions that do not have the -c option for recording the cursor.

Actually only worked correctly again after a reboot… :/ Make sure you click into the window at least once after having selected it, too.

Will not always record the mouse cursor (at least I had the problem that it didn’t work correctly anymore after trying to use multiple workspaces / trying to switch keyboard layout).

For the missing keys, there seems to be some info here and it appears you can add your own keymap somehow.

Gifsicle in gimp install#

But there is a solution for the latter issue: get the updated source from github and install it doing python setup.py build, then as root user, python setup.py install (it will be installed outside your usual package management – removal might be difficult!). Also, the version that comes from the official Ubuntu 14.04 repos does not work well if you want to use the option “Highly visible click”.

Gifsicle in gimp plus#

The plus sign, for example, is never shown. Problem with that is: it doesn’t show all keys I press.key-mon, if you would like to show which mouse button / key you press. Use a keyboard / mouse entry displaying tool, e.g.gifsicle: feed the exported file into gifsicle: gifsicle -unoptimize -O3 myfile.gif '#start_frame_number-end_frame_number' -output=myfile-modified.gif.use Filters ⯈ Animation ⯈ Play animation to see where you want to cut, make a note of the frame numbers.open the recorded file with the GIMP, crop it to minimize file size.Script: record the animation: sh recordToGif.sh.In the end, I came up with the following workflow: But you really need to know the frame numbers before you use it. It also does a very good job in reducing the file size of the result. For example, it can cut and merge them if you give it the frame numbers you want to keep. Then there’s gifsicle, a command-line utility that can do quite a lot of things with animated GIFs. What it has got though, is a very useful preview functionality, that allows you to see the frame numbers (they don’t match with the numbers in the layer names…) and stop the animation / step through it (but it can only step through it in one direction and cannot jump to a specific point). Only, editing those in there is very laborious currently, as there exists no feature yet in Gimp 2.8 to select several layers at once to delete them – each GIF frame is represented as a single layer in GIMP, so to cut a ‘video’, it’s sometimes necessary to delete several (hundred…) layers at once, which would literally take hours. Well, the GIMP can crop, and it can save to animated GIF, so that’s really nice. There will soon be a new version of OpenShot (2.0), that supposedly has support for opening and saving to GIF, but it’s not available yet. It will record the selected window, give acoustic prompts and save the recording to an optimized GIF.īut what I still needed was a way to cut and crop the animations after recording – and it seems there isn’t any nice GUI that makes this possible yet for Ubuntu 14.04-based systems. I already had this very useful little bash script (GPLv2), written by Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz, and adapted to my needs. First of all, it took a lot longer than I thought it would - due to bugs (in both the recording tools and Inkscape) and research for better options. This workflow was tested on Linux Mint 17.2 (Xfce edition). Would you like to know how the animated GIF images for these articles have been created?