Install HomeBrew
Using the terminal, run the following command.
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install.sh)"
Install ffmpeg
Install ffmpeg
from HomeBrew using the terminal command below.
brew install ffmpeg
Convert Videos to GIF
Simply run this ffmpeg
command.
ffmpeg -i input.mp4 output.gif
To reduce the frame rate of the output GIF, simply add the argument -r
.
ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -r 15 output.gif
Note that ffmpeg
accepts several video input formats. Run the following command to get a list of supported codecs.
ffmpeg -codecs