Optimizing high quality animated gifs
Use python to find optimal FFMPEG commands to achieve small HQ gifs.
The best parameter to change is the max_colors of the palettegen filter.
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Command used
(Place inside a batch file and run)
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set fname="frames/frame%%04d.png"
set scale=w=320:-2:flags=lanczos
set fps=30
set crop=iw:ih:0:0
ffmpeg -y -r 30 -i %fname% -filter_complex "[0]fps=%fps%,crop=%crop%,scale=%scale%[a];[a]split[b][d];[b]palettegen=max_colors=48:stats_mode=full[c];[d][c]paletteuse" -c:v gif "small gif.gif"
Link to FFMPEG: https://ffmpeg.org/download.html
An excellent video on how to install and set it up: • Install FFmpeg on Windows 10 - 2019
Video where the gif frames were generated: • Making an animated gif for Wikipedia ...
