Make a Gif

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Describe the question
Gif from a movie or images?

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Prerequisite

$ brew install ffmpeg

Answer

https://www.atrixnet.com/animated-gifs/

# This makes a 10 second gif
$ mkdir gif
$ ffmpeg -i YOUR_MOVIE.mpg -an -r 10 -y -s 640x480 gif/capture%03d.png # *see footnote
$ cd gif
$ for file in *png; do echo converting $file ...; convert $file `basename $file .png`.gif; done
$ convert -delay 10 cap*gif -loop 0 anim.gif
$ convert -layers Optimize anim.gif anim_optimized.gif
$ mv anim_optimized.gif ../
$ cd ../
$ rm -rf ./gif