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NickeManarin / ScreenToGif

🎬 ScreenToGif allows you to record a selected area of your screen, edit and save it as a gif or video.
http://www.screentogif.com
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Ideal settings for optimum gif file size #1152

Closed kapooramit closed 1 year ago

kapooramit commented 1 year ago

Hi,

I have using screentogif for a long time now, but suddenly after the updates in the last couple of months, the output gif size has gone from 500KB to 4-5MB. And this is huge difference. I assumed it was some setting I did unintentionally so I uninstalled, deleted all traces and reinstalled. Still ditto issue. What am doing wrong? 30secon gif should not be 3-4MB!! It was not like this earlier.

How can i fix it?

NormandoHall commented 1 year ago

Use mp4 with standard settings (ffmpeg) and you will get a file size below 500KB

kapooramit commented 1 year ago

Thank you @NormandoHall . But why is the gif size and time it takes to create gif has gone exponentially up and not like it was a few releases before? What changes and why.

The problem is I need to use gif and not mp4 or any other format - the way Microsoft does in their docs these days.

NickeManarin commented 1 year ago

Hello @kapooramit

Usually when that happens, those two options at the bottom are unchecked.

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Anyway, if in doubt, just press the "reset" button at the top to return to the default settings.

kapooramit commented 1 year ago

Thank GOD! and Thank you @NickeManarin . Finally! I am so relieved! It is working now like it used to - size and speed - both :-)