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QGifer Converts Video To GIF, Supports Cropping, Adding Text And More

<b><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/qgifer">QGifer</a> is a Qt tool available for Linux and Windows, that can convert part of a video to an animated GIF file.</b><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpjRGlPQ-nRMGPYc-ZcZuB2CpUGUfCMexfxFcqPR_nBLJzZiT7ScnsPOGkqTmvUJdCGWN_-ekQ-iY7lmoBq92JvQcwi0Huofz6JvqP7EvIHqvnSawXhLYLRQxor6lUqL-Mm6Ez2_pnr3o/s1172/qgifer.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="QGifer Ubuntu" border="0" height="210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpjRGlPQ-nRMGPYc-ZcZuB2CpUGUfCMexfxFcqPR_nBLJzZiT7ScnsPOGkqTmvUJdCGWN_-ekQ-iY7lmoBq92JvQcwi0Huofz6JvqP7EvIHqvnSawXhLYLRQxor6lUqL-Mm6Ez2_pnr3o/s320/qgifer.png" title="QGifer Ubuntu" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">QGifer isn't just a simple video to GIF converter. Thanks to its feature set, the application feels almost like a video editor, except it doesn't produce videos but animated GIF files: you can easily set which part of the video should be used in your GIF, <b>crop the video</b>, <b>add text or images</b>, <b>apply filters</b> and more.</div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;">Furthermore, the application comes with a <b>GIF optimizer which you can use to reduce the file size of any GIF</b>, not just those created using QGifer.</div><br /><b>QGifer features:</b><br /><ul><li>GIF extraction from a video file;</li><li>Color palette editor;</li><li>Variable color palette support;</li><li>Dithering;</li><li>Insert text and graphics - they can be displayed in all the frames or only certain frames;</li><li>Object interpolation;</li><li>Cropping;</li><li>Filtering;</li><li>Looping by appending reversed copy;</li><li>GIF optimization through ImageMagick;</li><li>Project management.</li></ul><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">QGifer is great but there is one downside: it doesn't support video files that come with more than 1800 frames and don't use the motion JPEG or YUV4 codecs. To be able to use these videos, you must either re-encode them using a codec like motion JPEG (the application comes with a MJPEG converter which you can access from the menu: <i>Program > MJPEG Converter</i> - however, in my test, this tool wasn't able to convert some videos I've downloaded from YouTube) or YUV4 or alternatively, cut the videos before importing them in QGifer.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">To cut a video to be able to use it in QGifer, you can use a video editor such as OpenShot or you can do this via command line, using <i>mencoder</i>, <i>ffmpeg</i> (or "libav" - using the command line "avconv" tool), melt and so on. For instance, to cut the first 30 seconds from a video called "in.avi" using <i>avconv</i>, use the following command:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>avconv -i in.avi -ss 00:00:00 -t 00:00:30 -c copy out.avi</code></pre><div style="text-align: justify;">The resulting "out.avi" video should only contain the first 30 seconds from the "in.avi" video.</div><br /><i>Click <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDh5ae5SlGw2TFYAVLLEedlc5ycAFYVilvFz03UY52DAdrMx2jwnc2K3MAbukqP9jwiqB0RXdmfDHDgKCPYjayjeMNhqgKNzzwsBrCyV6mtpVw537YzvWw0DyUEHqokdWQULuibvTaiu8/s1600/qgifer-test.gif">HERE</a> to see a GIF I've created using QGifer.</i><br /><br /><br /><h2>How to create an animated GIF from video using QGifer</h2><div style="text-align: justify;">Creating animated GIF images from videos using QGifer isn't as easy as using the other <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/10/easily-create-animated-gif-images-from.html">video to GIF tool</a> we wrote about, but it isn't very complicated either. Below you can watch a quick video tutorial in which the QGifer developer explains how to use the application (GIF extraction, GIF optimization and color management):</div><br /><center><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/SNTf5eNdL4Q" width="560"></iframe><br />(<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNTf5eNdL4Q">direct video link</a>)</center><br /><br /><h2>Download QGifer</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/qgifer/files/">Download QGifer</a> - there are Windows, Ubuntu/Debian (32bit only), generic Linux binary (32bit only) and source files available.</b></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">For both Ubuntu 32bit and 64bit you can use Sam Rog's PPA to <b>install the latest QGifer in Ubuntu:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:samrog131/ppa<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install qgifer</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><i>app seen on <a href="http://www.instantfundas.com/2013/07/qgifer-is-fantastic-video-to-gif.html">Instantfundas</a></i></div>

QGifer Converts Video To GIF, Supports Cropping, Adding Text And More

QGifer is a Qt tool available for Linux and Windows, that can convert part of a video to an animated GIF file. QGifer isn't just a simp...

<div style="text-align: justify;">There are <a href="http://askubuntu.com/questions/107726/how-to-create-animated-gif-images-of-a-screencast" rel="nofollow">various</a> <a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=747523" rel="nofollow">ways</a> of creating animated GIF images from video files under Linux, but most require cutting the video into images, then combining the images using GIMP or some other tools, but here's an easy way that only requires selecting the video, and optionally, changing the frame rate: <b>Video 2 Gif</b>.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRBTysAFiDyvR_qFp15Y-SPfZLB4g_IE678FfZrMq6w4ZKmRIW-um_yfCmikzbBhETHzlfNQkDdEoT0nQMR82jjIlTIwCdRHqvX_hMGbZeHhcLdPQxvfVBDxCnndMIX01l5n0TQIzMI5ks/s1600/video2gif.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="video2gif" border="0" height="175" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRBTysAFiDyvR_qFp15Y-SPfZLB4g_IE678FfZrMq6w4ZKmRIW-um_yfCmikzbBhETHzlfNQkDdEoT0nQMR82jjIlTIwCdRHqvX_hMGbZeHhcLdPQxvfVBDxCnndMIX01l5n0TQIzMI5ks/s320/video2gif.png" title="video2gif" width="320" /></a></div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Video 2 Gif is a python tool created by Lorenzo from <a href="http://www.atareao.es/">atareao.es</a> which uses Mplayer to convert the video to GIF and lets you configure the start and end frame, video size and the frame rate</b>. It doesn't have many options, just the basics that allow you to create an animated GIF image from a video in seconds.</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">To see GIF created using Video2Gif from an YouTube video, click <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2t8nSaaQ_IY6U-rVWkZ4OojEMUJSXKmVwkXpEV2uu8MgTgGV35UYIYA0upTYn92m4fiwYndNmoT1llKAWpPJoT0eXYiohjztFbouu1NnTLlap9bztRlHiGJMvsjYagFcV1DwitF2qtIZQ/s1600/RObotzi_S01_Ep.15_Kidnapare.gif">HERE</a> (I've used 3 frames per second). The quality isn't great, but you can get better quality by using a higher frame rate (though this will increase the GIF file size). The GIF quality also depends a lot on the source video, so you'll get mixed results, depending on what video you use.</div><br />Before downloading and using Video 2 Gif, make sure you have mplayer installed:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install mplayer</code></pre><br />Then, <b>download Video2Gif from here: <a href="http://webupd8.googlecode.com/files/video2gif_0.1.tar.gz">English</a> | <a href="http://www.atareao.es/ubuntu/software-para-tu-ubuntu/como-crear-una-imagen-gif-animada-de-un-video/">Spanish<br /></a></b><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Once downloaded, extract the archive, double click "video2gif", select "Run" and you're ready to convert a video to GIF. The tool doesn't have a progress bar so once you click "OK", wait until Video 2 Gif closes!</div><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><i>Thanks to Lorenzo @ <a href="http://www.atareao.es/ubuntu/software-para-tu-ubuntu/como-crear-una-imagen-gif-animada-de-un-video/">Atareao.es</a> for Video 2 Gif!</i></div>

Easily Create Animated GIF Images From Videos With Video2Gif

There are various ways of creating animated GIF images from video files under Linux, but most require cutting the video into images, then ...

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