Gifski 4+

Thank you!

I don't review apps or write reviews, but your app deserves it for being so simple to us and outputting really high quality GIFs. After spending all day searching for iOS or MacOS apps to convert my 4K footage to high resolution GIFS, I finally stumbled upon your app and I could not be happier. I already do all of my editing in FinalCut, but I needed something to convert my edits into GIFs. iOS apps were awful and had paid subscriptions. Websites like Giphy cushed the video quality. Your app was drag & drop, specify desired output, and then convert. For something as simple as making a GIF, the whole marker collectively lost their minds. You are wonderful and made a really great app. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you!

Great, best I've found, needs a couple more features and small fixes

I only use this app for GIFs now because the quality is easily the best I've found. The settings you choose are not persistent, so each clip I need to process, I have to reset the framerate. The quality appears to stick most of the time. There are a few annoyances, such as when I've process and Saved As . . . why does it stay on that screen? You have to click an arrow to go back to the settings. Minor. IF I could wish for one feature, I'd just ask for a batch process window - drop in my similar files, process them all the same way, maybe pre-select a save as location. What do you think? Doable?

Developer Response ,

The quality should always be remembered. In the latest update (2.20.2), the FPS setting is now also remembered. Gifski stays on the "conversion completed" screen as we don't want to assume what the user wants. The user may want to save it multiple times to different locations. It's also unclear to me why you would want it to go back to the settings screen (?). In case you did not already know, you can drag & drop a new video onto the "conversion completed" screen to start with a new video. Batch processing is something I want to do, but it's will require larger changes to Gifski and it's not something I will have time to do in the near feature. I have to prioritize more popular requests. Email me at sindresorhus@gmail.com and I'd be happy to discuss Gifski improvements.

One bug, but a great application

Gifski presents a very clean, out-of-the-way, and easy to use interface for generating high quality gifs with parameter tweaks.

I've been using it for a long time but recently noticed an issue. There is a sort of color artifact applied to gifs, of varying severity depending on the video input. One example, is that the background color of one of my video files is rgb(14, 16, 21) but is transformed to rgb(14, 17, 22) in the gif output.

This is a small shift but it is going to be noticable where you are trying to match the background of some other context so as to make a gif's background appear transparent.

Developer Response ,

The GIF format is ancient and usually limited to 256 colors, but GIfski is able to squeeze out thousands of colors. However, RGB has a lot more than thousands of colors, so Gifski is not able to perfectly match the video input. This is a limitation of the GIF format, not Gifski. Note that Gifski does support MP4 and ProRes with an alpha channel (transparency), which may be a better way of matching a certain background.