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Advice regarding High Resolution Gif Creation Tools

DawgOfTheAges
DawgOfTheAges Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 1,826 Founders Club
edited March 2021 in Hardcore Husky Board
@SpoonieLuv, @GrundleStiltzkin, and others...

I could use some advice here regarding GIF creating tools... I am well versed in GIF tools that can do a bunch of clever stuff but I am looking for a 4K resolution [or the highest quality available tool set to create GIF's]... I want to use them in my business web site and need to be able to control the speed, add text, convert from stills and movies, be able to edit frame by frame, and prefer the flexibility of employing GIF's from a number of standpoints to add to my developing web site.

The issue is resolution quality... lots of tools let you do some or all of the above [all of the above is what I want] but i haven't found one which produces 4 k resolution quality or even super HD, and the quality drop off is disturbing.

Any advice will be appreciated... the app I'm wanting would be for a PC, price is not a concern, I expect to pay for the quality I'm hoping for... Anybody? Thanks.
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  • Emoterman
    Emoterman Member Posts: 3,333
    edited March 2021
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    Emoterman Member Posts: 3,333
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  • DawgOfTheAges
    DawgOfTheAges Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 1,826 Founders Club
    yah!!! that is what i'm talking about! very clever... love it.
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  • GrundleStiltzkin
    GrundleStiltzkin Member Posts: 61,516 Standard Supporter
    ffmpeg
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  • DawgOfTheAges
    DawgOfTheAges Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 1,826 Founders Club
    thx Grundle... i'll check it out...
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  • GrundleStiltzkin
    GrundleStiltzkin Member Posts: 61,516 Standard Supporter
    edited March 2021
    4K and GIF is a FS combo. Clip video if that’s your requirement. FFmpeg can do whatever, completely filling your drive space if that’s what your want.
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  • 1to392831weretaken
    1to392831weretaken Member Posts: 7,696
    GrundleStiltzkin said:

    4K and GIF is a FS combo. Clip video if that’s your requirement. FFmpeg can do whatever, completely filling your drive space if that’s what your want.

    This. You're seriously considering 4K gifs on a website? Nobody will even load the page before quitting and leaving. A 5 second 4K gif that doesn't look like OG Mario Bros. will be something like 400 MB.

    Adobe Creative Cloud is around $35 per month for the entire suite of tools. Premiere can render .gif files from video. You can also generate .gif files from stills in either Photoshop or, preferably, After Effects. What I've found is that you have to be VERY careful to take the quality way down to avoid the files being ridiculously massive. .gif is a less efficient compression (by far) than h.264, so, say, a 5-second .gif file will look shittier and be 10x bigger than the 5-second video file from which it was pulled. The .gif compression algorithm is from something like 1984.

    If you're trying to have good looking video on a website, look into HTML5. Skip the gif and just use video elements if you're looking for a content rich page.
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  • DawgOfTheAges
    DawgOfTheAges Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 1,826 Founders Club
    Thanks guys.. this is the reason that I asked.. I obviously do not know what I am doing so I was asking the wrong questions. and was wondering why I couldn't find what I was looking for.
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  • IPukeOregonGrellow
    IPukeOregonGrellow Member Posts: 2,183
    edited March 2021
    When I? want to do something quik I just use Giphy. When I want werds to time out right, I take it to 'Shop. But like 1to392831 said, files get huge and you generally have to shrink them down for use on any sites. This one I halved in size but it's still 20 Megs, and the Twatter limit is 15.



    If you want to go all professional grade, all my frens who pump gas in a video format use Final Cut Pro these days. Generally, that's the gold standard for working with video files at the moment, and it's pretty intuitive and makes JIFFing pretty easy.
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  • BennyBeaver
    BennyBeaver Member Posts: 13,346
    A whole lotta GIF Superiority Guys we have here.
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