To give you a brief comparison it took me 10 seconds to crop my video using a command prompt compared to 80 seconds in software. Note- It is super amazing to see how quickly you can crop or trim your video without using any fancy heavy software like Premiere Pro or After Effects. This example will skip the first 30 seconds ( -ss 30) of the input and create a 3-second output ( -t 3).

Video post-processing/ crop video ffmpeg -i input.mkv -ss 30 -t 3 output.mp4 But unfortunately, I can’t find any solution, if you know how to do this then answer these StackOverflow questions and earn some reputation from the community. Note- This whole process from youtube to gif can speed up if we can download part of the YouTube video only we need.

-o is an output key that follows the filename you want to save as.

just grab the youtube video link to download the video using youtube-dl.

Download youtube video using youtube-dl youtube-dl -o input.mkv Now navigate to the youtube-to-gif directory and unzip demo.rar file cd downloads/youtube-to-gif 1. If you want to follow along with me then please download command-line utilities (pre-installed executables files) from my GitHub Repository so that you don’t have to install anything.įirst, open your command prompt and clone GitHub repo on your local machine git clone You can also use pip for installing written in python using the following commands: pip install youtube_dl pip install ffmpeg-python pip install pygifsicle You can download the latest version from their official websites. You require three libraries FFmpeg, Gifsicle, and Youtube-dl for this task. You can also refer to my YouTube video tutorial for better Understanding Prerequisite

Annotate video/ adding text using FFmpeg.

Download youtube video using youtube-dl.In this article, we’ll walk you through 6 steps to make a GIF from a youtube video.

Also, I want to explore on my own to find out how these websites are working under the hood. I know there are few websites like, Ezgif, to turn a YouTube video into a GIF but these online GIF makers put watermark, have an upload limit of max file size 6MB, & don’t make GIFs longer than 10 seconds.

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