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Make a better GIF from a video clip with FFmpeg palettegen and paletteuse
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What this guide covers
For editors and designers who turn short clips into GIFs and want less colour banding than a one-step conversion. You end with a two-step process that builds a palette from the clip and then applies it with a chosen dither. Based on the FFmpeg manual and not run; frame rate and scale choices are not covered.
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Guide title
Make a better GIF from a video clip with FFmpeg palettegen and paletteuse
Coverage
For editors and designers who turn short clips into GIFs and want less colour banding than a one-step conversion. You end with a two-step process that builds a palette from the clip and then applies it with a chosen dither. Based on the FFmpeg manual and not run; frame rate and scale choices are not covered.
Example
A hypothetical 3 second screen recording converted in two passes and compared by eye with the default dither; no result is claimed.
Useful starting points
- Trim and scale the clip before making the palette; large or long clips give oversized GIFs.
- If flat areas show a moving pattern, an ordered dither gives a stable pattern instead.
- Compare file size and banding across dither settings on the same clip.
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