What is a free program that will convert avi files to gif?

I don’t care if it’s good or not. I just need it to take in my avi file, and without resizing it, adding to it, or changing the colors of it, turn it into an animated gif file.

Puh, thats something I would really not suggest doing. GIF is limited to 256 colors per frame, which will likely make your AVI look horrible after converting. Also you should know, that GIF encodes each frame individually, while AVI formats generally only store differences between frames. Converting from AVI to to GIF will make the resulting file quite huge.

If you still want to do it, I’d suggest using a tool that can dump the single frames of the movie as individual JPG files and then feed those to a GIF animator. You can use mplayer for dumping and GiftedMotion for encoding (make sure, that the amount of JPG files and sizes stays reasonably small, otherwise encoding will take forever). The command to dump:

mplayer movie.avi -vo jpeg -frames 100

GiftedMotion is a GUI tool, no commandline invocation needed

6 Responses to “What is a free program that will convert avi files to gif?”

  1. saadj78611 Says:

    lol im not sure seach for it on google
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  2. SoccerStar Says:

    I agree google has all the answers if you know how to search right:
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    Free avi to gif converter

  3. marcink99 Says:

    http://www.download.com/123-AVI-to-GIF-Converter/3000-2194_4-10392620.html there you go
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  4. Qiqi W Says:

    you can try Tota video converter from http://www.effectmatrix.com/total-video-converter
    , it can convert between audio/video formats including Video format(H264, MP4, WMV, AVI, MOV, RM, 3GP, flv, SWF, mpeg-1, mpeg-2, VideoCD, SuperVideoCD, DVD, etc.) and Audio format(AC3, AAC, MP2, MP3, MP4, RA, WMA, etc.).
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  5. Micky Says:

    if u can’t find good free software, u can try Movavi Video Converter,
    Free download here:
    http://www.flash-video-soft.com/movavi-video-converter-personal/
    Convert videos between all formats & devices
    - Movavi Video Converter supports 40+ video, audio, and image file formats

    * Input Video Formats: AVI (DivX, XviD, etc.), DV AVI, MP4 (Sony PSP, Apple TV, iPod, iPhone, BlackBerry, etc), WMV (including Zune, Archos and Creative Zen), ASF, 3GP, 3GP2, 3GPP, 3GPP2, QuickTime (MOV, QT), DVD, VOB, IFO, VIDEO_TS, AUDIO_TS, MPG, MPEG 1,2,4, MOD, DAT, MJPEG, VCD, SVCD, H.263.
    * Output Video Formats: MP4 (Sony PSP, Apple TV, iPod, iPhone, BlackBerry, etc), WMV (including Zune, Archos and Creative Zen), 3GP, 3GP2, 3GPP, 3GPP2, QuickTime (MOV, QT), MPG, MPEG 1,2,4, H.263, H.264, Real Media (RM, RMVB).
    * Output Video for Mobile Devices: iPod, iPhone, Apple TV, PSP, Zune, PDA/Pocket PC (including BlackBerry), Creative Zen, Archos, Epson media players, any cellphone.
    * Output Audio Formats: MP3, WAV, WMA.
    * Output Image Formats: JPEG, PNG, BMP, GIF.
    Hope it helps,
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  6. Mark S Says:

    Puh, thats something I would really not suggest doing. GIF is limited to 256 colors per frame, which will likely make your AVI look horrible after converting. Also you should know, that GIF encodes each frame individually, while AVI formats generally only store differences between frames. Converting from AVI to to GIF will make the resulting file quite huge.

    If you still want to do it, I’d suggest using a tool that can dump the single frames of the movie as individual JPG files and then feed those to a GIF animator. You can use mplayer for dumping and GiftedMotion for encoding (make sure, that the amount of JPG files and sizes stays reasonably small, otherwise encoding will take forever). The command to dump:

    mplayer movie.avi -vo jpeg -frames 100

    GiftedMotion is a GUI tool, no commandline invocation needed
    References :
    http://www.onyxbits.de/giftedmotion
    http://www.mplayerhq.hu

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