[ubuntu-za] Making an animated GIF from flv

[Johan Mynhardt]

On 4 May 2011 19:29, Christoff Erasmus <zs6jce at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Guys,
>
> I want to make an animated GIF to use as an Avatar.
>
> The source is a flv video from youtube.
>
> Could you give me some guidance as google has not been helpful.
>
> I have edited the vid down to about 10sec's.
>
> I now need to open it with Gimp, but this is where I am stuck.
>
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Hi Christoff!

It's been a while since I've done something like this, but the first
solution that comes to mind is to use ffmpeg to convert it to
something that you can import in pitivi or kdenlive.

>From there on you can extract each frame.

It's probably not the best solution, but it should work :)

Kind Regards

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