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Inspect a 256-colour palette with FFmpeg showpalette
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What this guide covers
For anyone preparing palette-limited output such as GIFs who wants to see which colours a generated palette holds. They end up with a picture of the palette as a grid of colour boxes. It is based on FFmpeg documentation and source only; nothing was run.
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Guide title
Inspect a 256-colour palette with FFmpeg showpalette
Coverage
For anyone preparing palette-limited output such as GIFs who wants to see which colours a generated palette holds. They end up with a picture of the palette as a grid of colour boxes. It is based on FFmpeg documentation and source only; nothing was run.
Example
A hypothetical, unrun example: build a palette for a short clip, draw it, and look for colour ranges your footage needs that are missing.
Useful starting points
- An existing GIF file is not a direct source: FFmpeg decodes GIF to RGB32, so any palette you see comes from a conversion or generation step.
- Output options such as the frame limit go before the output file name, or they will not apply to it.
- Judging whether the palette suits your footage is a visual call, not a measured quality score.
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