Making screen recordings and turning them into GIFs

From Mike Bostok's site, here.

The recipe is for a Mac. In my case the recording mechanism would be recordmydesktop and the output format different. But I am guessing that the rest should work fine.

Screen Recording to GIF

1. If you haven’t already: brew install ffmpeg gifsicle imagemagick.

2. Open QuickTime Player.

3. File > New Screen Recording.

4. Record.

5. Save as recording.mov.

6. ffmpeg -i recording.mov -r 24 recording-%03d.png

7. convert recording-001.png palette.gif Note: you may need to pick a different frame for better results!

8. convert -dither none -remap palette.gif recording-*.png recording-uncompressed.gif

9. gifsicle --optimize=3 --delay=4 < recording-uncompressed.gif >recording.gif

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