Quickie: WMV Screen Captures and Animated GIFs
Occasionally, I do screen captures. Â I use the Microsoft Expression Encoder. Â It’s not pretty, but I think it’s free. Â The output, by default, is a WMV (Windows Media Video) file.
YouTube is perfectly okay with WMV files. Â However, for an animation to show up in Twitter, it has to be an animated GIF with a limit of 5 MB.
Enter ImageMagick:
convert -resize 50% -deconstruct -layers optimize inputFile.wmv outputFile.gif
This took a 14-20 MB animated GIF (uncompressed) to 1.36 MB. Â Which is nice, because then I can show gems like this:
https://twitter.com/okiAndrew/status/763819198875402244
Cheers!
Tags: animated gif, gif, imagemagick, windows expression encoder, wmv
