4 Extract Frames

  1. You’ll need the start and end times of the clip you want. These are the ‘-ss’ and ‘-to’ flags in the command below.
  2. Determine how many frames you want to extract. This is what goes into the option ‘-r 5/1’ below.
  3. Combine them all to make a ffmpeg command like this:
  4. Delete extraneous frames. In most cases for gifs you want to minimize the amount of images/frames you’ll use. This will keep your file size down.

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