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Hopefully this is the right place to post this, this was the only section I found with graphics.

What I want to do is convert a clip of a game I have to a gif, but the problem im having is, the program wont convert the video over, the size is extremely big, or the gif comes out real crappy, so I was wondering if someone could give me a program they use to do this.

I have tried, Adobe Premiere, and Image Ready, Premiere causes the video to be slow, disgusting color, and extremly big.

Image Ready has fairly decent color, but the size is big and the video is choppy.

What im trying to get is something like the image below.

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Perfect quality and small size.

Thanks for any help

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wanted a small, high-quality GIF from a game clip but found exported GIFs either huge or ugly. Replies from @iamthwee, and point toward converter tools, which can work but often hide useful controls. A manual, two-step approach (extract + optimize) gives far better results than relying on defaults.

Practical workflow that balances quality and size: 1) trim and crop the clip to the action you need; smaller frame = smaller file. 2) downscale to the display width you actually need (commonly 320–640 px for forum GIFs). 3) reduce frame rate to 8–15 fps (fewer frames = smaller file). 4) generate an optimized color palette from the clip and apply it when encoding to minimize dithering and color waste. Example using ffmpeg (palette generation + use):

ffmpeg -ss START -t DURATION -i input.mp4 -vf fps=12,scale=480:-1:flags=lanczos,palettegen palette.png

ffmpeg -ss START -t DURATION -i input.mp4 -i palette.png -filter_complex "fps=12,scale=480:-1:flags=lanczos[x];[x][1:v]paletteuse=dither=bayer" output.gif

After that, run a GIF optimizer (gifsicle or gifski) to remove redundant pixels and further compress (--optimize or --colors). Tradeoffs: lowering colors and using less dithering shrinks size but can cause banding; higher fps and larger width improve motion smoothness but increase bytes. If browser compatibility allows, consider animated WebP or a short MP4 for much better quality/size.

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And what's about the program called ? I've tried it recently and fully satisfied with it's quality.

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Hi all=)
I want to say about VidGIF by geovid...
I agree with you kurley4-quality is really great and for me it is very usefull and effective:))

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