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Drop a cap on that GIF. Read about it.

engineering posts on the gifcap encoder, gifski, ffmpeg, and Windows GIF workflows. subscribe via RSS.

Why gifski beats ffmpeg for GIFs

Per-frame palettes vs. one global palette. The two-line explanation, the long-version proof, and why it shows up most in screen recordings of UI.

The binary-search size cap, explained

Most GIF encoders ship a quality slider and pray. gifcap binary-searches quality until your output fits the size you set. The math, the implementation, the edge cases.