The first step to decrease the filesize is to reduce the number of frames per second (default = 30). There is a big difference between video compression and single frame compression. The downloaded mp4-file is 13,771,821 bytes. The size of this animated GIF is 45,124,254 bytes. The following line converts the entire video to an animated GIF with a different resolution. This makes the following steps easily reproducible. Although it's my own video, I've downloaded it again for this instructable with an online Youtube downloader. This step starts with a short video of a line following mBot Ranger. In this latter example, a number of different possibilities for converting are discussed. This is small enough to be used on the Instructables website.įinally, upload the animated GIF file like a regular photo when creating an Instructable. To downsize the video resolution use the scale feature: ffmpeg -i instructables.mp4 -vf scale=320:240 instructables.gif This file is too large to be used on Instructables! Use the following command to convert the downloaded video (instructables.mp4) to an animated GIF (instructables.gif): ffmpeg -i instructables.mp4 instructables.gif It is a command line tool with a lot of options to convert images and video. This is a program to record, convert and stream audio and video. Select "Convert a video link/URL" and choose the mp4 video format.Īfter downloading the video, it can be converted using FFMPEG. This can be done with an online Youtube downloader. The first step is to download the Youtube video to your computer. As an example I chose the following youtube video: Instructables - Share What You Make. This part explains how to convert an entire Youtube video to an animated GIF. The medium size (with the error) is 620 x 465 pixels. The first image in this step (mBot ranger) is named ' F8T5W8ZJ86HR57N'. There is more information about the Instructable CDN in one of my previous Instructables: Photo and Video Mosaic. The following file (FS32YQMJ86HTPJU) can be found in my image library.
And uploading an animated GIF image results in the following sizes: Each uploaded image is stored in multiple sizes. This can be found under "your library" at. Note: Every Instructables user has it's own image library. The solution was to alter the resolution to 320 x 240 pixels. It's posible that your device shows a different version). And sometimes this fails (the MEDIUM file size failed. After uploading images to the instructables website, these are optimized by the CDN. The file worked perfectly on my local computer. This animated GIF was made with a resolution of 640 x 480 pixels.
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