Is there a way to create the gif faster?

[qqibrow]

Hi, I want to use moviepy to create a gif from a mp4 file. I found the speed is very slow however. Is there a way to make it faster? like reduce image quality or reduce sample rate? Thank you!

[Zulko]

There are many ways. First, try adding program='ffmpeg' to the arguments of write_gif, it should make the gif compression with ffmpeg instead of ImageMagick, this is much faster but not as good. Then you can reduce the fps with fps=15.

If you just want to make a gif from a mp4, without changing anything, it would be even faster to do it directly with ffmpeg:

ffmpeg -i myvideo.mp4 output.gif

[qqibrow]

Got it! Thank you!