The problem is, if you turn up the brightness on your display and look closely at the GIF below, there’s a visible crosshatch pattern overlay that wasn’t in the original video: This is how to create a GIF with zero manipulation. Keep in mind this post covers less than 0.1% of what ffmpeg can do - it’s an incredible library that most of us will never fully appreciate. I avoid creating a script with variables and instead prefer to keep it as copy and paste-able as possible. There are dozens of articles around the web on how to do this, but I wanted to note the command I use here for my own quick reference. It’s a command-line tool you can use to do all sorts of things, but what I most often end up doing is converting a screen recording to a GIF. If you’re a human that doesn’t want to download a whole new application just to do a bit of video manipulation or make a GIF, stop what you’re doing and check out ffmpeg.

Removing crosshatch when creating a GIF in ffmpeg Removing crosshatch when creating a GIF in ffmpeg

Ffmpeg gif to video