Show HN: Create beautiful animated gifs of your apps (opens in new tab)

Try HTML5 video instead. GIFs are archaic, low quality, and missing on features.

MediaCrush converts GIFs to video, and will host straight video files. It's open source, you might gain something from browsing the code.

https://mediacru.sh

https://github.com/MediaCrush/MediaCrush

I wasted more than 3 hours to create a animation on how to use the web app that I was working on. recorded my screeen using Simgle Screen Resorder [1] .

Converted the recorded video into several images using avconv [2] something like this

  avconv -i  00:00  1.mkv -t 15 op/frame_%03d.jpg

Create a gif using ImageMagick Convert Command-Line Tool [3]

  convert -resize 427x240 op/frame_*.jpg op.gif

Result is 20 mb GIF image.. I had to reduce the frames and some other parameters to reduce the size.

I feel HTML5 video is a better alternative, but I still need a gif.

[1] http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2013/12/simple-screen-recorder-li...

[2] https://libav.org/avconv.html

[3] http://www.imagemagick.org/script/convert.php

Hi there. I have found this quite useful. Was just wondering if there was a reason why there is no more than 5 images supported? The webapp says it is getting 6 files but it doesn't display any when I select 6 images, 5 seems to be the max.

The images you're displaying on the homepage are downscaled by the browser and look horrible. You see this most in small lines, e.g. the carrier name. You should generally not be producing a single high-resolution GIF but instead a suite of appropriately scaled and resampled images.

Any plans to support Android devices?