It would be helpful if you shared a brief summary of your current workflow as absent that it’s impossible to gauge whether what any of us does might be objectively less painful.
Myself? It’s not something I really bother with except on rare occasion, so I’m totally content with having installed FFmpeg via Chocolatey (a la choco upgrade ffmpeg-full-y --pre, a single PowerShell command which will update ffmpeg if it’s already installed, or install it if it isn’t) and then I just open my bookmark for the WebM Wiki’s VP9 Encoding Guide to help me remember which flags to pass to ffmpeg to create the kind of file I want in Windows Terminal. I also have Handbrake installed for the even rarer occasions that I feel motivated to isolate a segment of a larger video to turn into a WebM animated image, though if I’ve already determined the start and end timestamps I’ll just pass those to ffmpeg on the command line as part of my usual workflow.
edit: upon rereading I see I was incorrect you are in windows, sorry
I use avidemux to grab a clip, pretty straight forward but doesn’t really allow any editing which is fine. But then I use a piece of software called File Converter to right click and “Convert To Gif (low quality)” but its usually still too big so I have to run the same thing again to get the file size down.
It would be helpful if you shared a brief summary of your current workflow as absent that it’s impossible to gauge whether what any of us does might be objectively less painful.
Myself? It’s not something I really bother with except on rare occasion, so I’m totally content with having installed FFmpeg via Chocolatey (a la
choco upgrade ffmpeg-full -y --pre, a single PowerShell command which will update ffmpeg if it’s already installed, or install it if it isn’t) and then I just open my bookmark for the WebM Wiki’s VP9 Encoding Guide to help me remember which flags to pass toffmpegto create the kind of file I want in Windows Terminal. I also have Handbrake installed for the even rarer occasions that I feel motivated to isolate a segment of a larger video to turn into a WebM animated image, though if I’ve already determined the start and end timestamps I’ll just pass those toffmpegon the command line as part of my usual workflow.Ay i was gunna give the exact same ffmpeg suggestion xD ffmpeg is such a life saver for developing home tools like this :3
Sounds like your in linux. I’m in windows.
edit: upon rereading I see I was incorrect you are in windows, sorry
I use avidemux to grab a clip, pretty straight forward but doesn’t really allow any editing which is fine. But then I use a piece of software called File Converter to right click and “Convert To Gif (low quality)” but its usually still too big so I have to run the same thing again to get the file size down.
Yea choco is a very useful Windows tool! Adding real package management to windows!