Tips & Tricks of the Trade: video compression with ffmpeg

When you need to share a recording that isn’t ginormous I’m converting a video to GIF file with ffmpeg:

ffmpeg \
  -i IMG_1288.MOV \
  -ss 00:00:00.000 \
  -pix_fmt rgb24 \
  -r 10 \
  -s 320x240 \
  -t 00:00:10.000 \
  IMG_1288.gif

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