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Add support for other export file formats #130

Open iby opened 4 years ago

iby commented 4 years ago

This request comes up all the time and now that version 2 stores the raw recording we have a good solution to support additional export file formats.

First, we never wanted Gifox to become that tool that does a million things with a bloated interface. It always was and always will be about GIFs, clear UI+UX and comprehensive compression control. However, now that we have the editor we can provide a good way to export raw recording to multiple formats. Here's what we hope to support first:

bgondy commented 4 years ago

Hi,

Just a few words to say I'm very happy to hear that you plan to implement this feature ! MP4 files are much lighter 🌍 than GIFs in addition to being smoother.

It is also worth to mention that Gifox's UI/UX is just amazing contrary to the built-in screen recorder which is not even able to save records in an other format than MOV. I have to use ffmpeg to convert them and this is hell.

Is there any ETA ?

bartoszhernas commented 4 years ago

Kudos on that! I just created a GIF and edited it, and it is a 31MB file. I just want to share it fastly for others in my team on Slack, and mp4 is so much smaller.

For other purposes, GIFs are the way to go, sure, but here just an option to export to mp4 would be brilliant.

zaiste commented 4 years ago

Thanks for creating this fantastic tool. I'd also be to happy to see an MPEG-4 export in Gifox. If it lands someday, I'll buy the tool again :)

@ianbytchek how do you feel about this article from Google ? Replace Animated GIFs with Vidoe

billiegoose commented 3 years ago

Now that GitHub supports videos, a lot of my work colleagues have started asking I use videos instead of GIFs because they can pause and rewind the videos. But so far I've told them no, bc I frankly like Gifox so much I don't want to switch to a different tool lol.

Anyway, for my coworkers' sake, I'm +1 ing this feature request.

cabello commented 2 years ago

I've used Gifox in the past, I like the UX and the simple workflow.

I just recorded with Gifox and Quicktime (macOS shortcut) then I used Handbrake to convert the MOV into MP4.

Here are the file sizes:

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The color picker from the GIF:

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The color picker from the MP4:

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I would love an app that encapsulated that workflow:

maccesch commented 2 years ago

webp has mainstream support in Browsers and has transparency as well as animation. So it would be awesome if there was an option to use it!

iby commented 2 years ago

Hello friends! Apologies for going off the radar and thanks everyone for reporting and feedback and some compliments! ☺️

In the recent updates we've added support for exporting MP4 (H.264) and MOV (ProRes 422) video from the composition – where you re-export the GIF. And it's also possible to import videos, image series, and externally created GIFs – in the library popover there's now an "import media" icon next to area and window selection.

I think this mostly resolves this issue. We also WebM and APNG amongst most requested formats – these are also in the frontlog and hopefully will be ready in one of the upcoming releases. If you have any feedback so far, please share! 👍

martin-braun commented 2 years ago

@iby Awesome feature, good work! It would also be nice if I could set the default export format in the settings as well as in the select area overlay before I start the recording. I.e. when I know that my presentation will be long, I can pick mp4 right away and don't need to wait for a GIF that I will trash anyways.