Hey everyone!
I was looking through some build blogs, and updating ours, when I noticed we’re all posting a lot of YouTube links for our testing results. But some people are posting GIFS. I didn’t easily (i.e. in 5 minutes of searching) find what software people were using to make GIFS, so I went to the internet at large.
I found ScreenToGif and found it to be pretty useful.
If your team uses a GIF creator, please share below.
I use the built in screen recorder on mac, then use gifski to convert the video file
I used mac screen recorder + ffmpeg and it was really easy, but the output… needed work.
When I’m mobile I like GifShop for Android. Most of my gifs I post to CD are from this. If you did a screencapture on your desktop, save it to cloud storage, download it on your phone then edit, convert and post.
What I like best is the output options and the ability to compress it right there.
You can go from video to gif, gif to video or make a gif out of photos, etc. really powerful for a mobile app
I’m in camp share-x which auto-converts to gif or mp4, depending on which one the target likes better.
What I’d actually like to know… how do teams do those high-res-10-frame ones that show their robot in a bunch of different positions? I know I can get the pictures for my bot this year, what else do I need to do with them?
Please think carefully about what is appropriate for YouTube and what’s appropriate for gifs. Gifs have poor compression of complex pictures, and don’t do any frame to frame compression, so they aren’t a good choice for most videos. The example you posted with screengrab that’s well compressible due to limited colors and complexity is decent for a gif. Videos of your testing results are probably better suited for youtube.
Please also consider where you host your gifs. Recently CD had disk space issues.
This is a really good point. Is there a better recommendation for image hosting like that? Or your point is try not to put a massive amount of large gifs out there as a direct upload in general. Especially for really long videos turned into gifs?
It also affects the loading time of posts and not all people on CD have unlimited bandwidth
We’ve just been using Ezgif since most of our videos are <10 seconds long.
Note that this site isn’t great about maintaining the quality or framerate, but we haven’t been super concerned about either of those things anyways so we’re planning on continuing to use it 
Imgur hasnt let me down for both video and gifs. Just make sure to have an account associated with everything.
Otherwise, just put it on youtube. Its easy and its easily accessable for the vast majority of people.
I agree on the YouTube part, is the account for imgur what prevents it going away after X time like before? Don’t remember the exact details of the last Imgur psa I read here but it was essentially that.
“Old and unused” was the terminology they used, which didnt include active accounts with photos IIRC.
Frankly, i dont have an imgur alternative that i like. Imgur wins just by being there and available without super tight restrictions.
Yeah I was thinking in terms of the 2-3s clips of the note getting picked up, or a quick shot of the note going into the speaker. In those instances clicking on the YT video, waiting for it to load, and then its over. It would be nicer to see it loop repeatedly.
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