Often time in a developer workflow we need to capture some short animations. That's where GIFs come in as a rescue.
Tho capturing higher resolution areas for like 10 secs comes at its price - larger file sizes, meaning longer load times for wherever you use them afterward in your projects.
How do you optimize your GIFs?
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Thanks for asking this interesting question. I usually love to use GIF maker platforms that doesn't ask for programming skills and BannerBoo is one of them. I minimize the number of heavy effects, shorten the text size and elminita unnecessary rainbow effects.
In short, I prefer to reduce the GIF file size to optimize the GIF size. You can also go with this guide bannerboo.com/blog/how-to-optimize... to get A to Z details about optimizing GIFs or GIF banners. Best of luck!
Thank you for the valuable input 👍✨💯
very good question, As I like to make some animations for presenting programming concepts.
For my personal website I was thinking to default to
webpand on error switch to gif. (not sure about the exact code now.) but I found that a 500kb animation can be a 10kb webp.I would also like to know some other opinions.
Haha, glad I'm not the only one 😀😀
If you're on Windows you can try Screen2Gif (open-source tool for screen recording with .gif output) that has also embedded editor that allows you to get rid of duplicate frames (by extending the duration of first frame and get rid of duplicates) and apply different optimization methods before exporting the .gif file (like changing the FPS, etc.). It's able to reduce the gif sizes considerably if they are not composed of completely different content on each frame (very unsuitable for movies or dynamic scenes but works perfectly for screen recordings or other kind of static content).
I always ask myself does this really need to be a gif? Web or even mp4 is often a better solution sometimes it can be svg+ CSS animation or Lottie.
you can do all of this online with :
ezgif.com/video-to-gif
Hmm I usually drop the FPS.