#Mac gifski free#

Going back to the Gifski GUI-based macOS app, it enables you to use the gifski CLI tool to convert your video to GIFs by drag and dropping them onto its window or dock icon, as well as choose it via the File > Open menu or via the right-click contextual menu.Īs mentioned above, you can start converting your video into a GIF by drag and dropping the source file onto Gifski's window and, before the conversion process begins, it will ask you to choose a name, set some Finder tags if needed and select the location where you want it to save the GIF. Generate GIFs with custom FPS and quality However, even though the animated images you can generate with the help of gifski will look amazing, there is a drawback: they will be up to 10 times larger than the videos you used as a source due to the GIF formats inherent inefficiency. In the end, the resulting animated GIF image mimics the quality of the original video, with little to no difference in quality. This is being achieved by making a unique palette for each GIF frame and subsequently combining colors across frames. Moreover, gifski is a command line tool based on the pngquant PNG lossless compression library and designed to make it possible to convert videos into high-quality GIF animations, featuring temporal dithering, smooth gradients and thousands of colors for every generated GIF. Convert videos to high-quality GIFs in no time

#Mac gifski free#

Gifski is a free and native macOS application created as an open source GUI for the GIF encoder with the same name, but without the uppercase G at the start. Although we are used to low quality animated GIFs from websites which focus on the load speed rather than good looks, there is no reason to not being able to make high-quality GIF animations if we can.