billlee Posted February 7, 2018 Share Posted February 7, 2018 Converting a 7-sec, 634 KB MP4 yields a GIF of 26 MB!!!!!! How to get Prism to generate a GIF of a reasonable file size? Thank you very much! ..Bill.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gekker Posted February 7, 2018 Share Posted February 7, 2018 Hello, Before converting, click "Video Options", resize to a smaller video and select a lower number of "Frames Per Second". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billlee Posted February 8, 2018 Author Share Posted February 8, 2018 Thank you very much Gekker! This makes a big difference of course. Reducing both frame rate and resolution by 50% reduced the GIF to 7 MB, only 10 times rather than 40 times larger than the original. And of course, quality is reduced. I was naively expecting too much of GIF. Wikipedia says: With the introduction of widespread support of the HTML5 <video> tag in most web browsers, some websites use a looped version of the video tag generated by JavaScript functions. This gives the appearance of a GIF, but with the size and speed advantages of compressed video. Notable examples are Gfycat and Imgur and their GIFV metaformat, which is really a video tag playing a looped MP4 or WebM compressed video. Thanks again! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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