# [gif.ski](https://gif.ski)
Highest-quality GIF encoder based on [pngquant](https://pngquant.org).
**[gifski](https://gif.ski)** converts video frames to GIF animations using pngquant's fancy features for efficient cross-frame palettes and temporal dithering. It produces animated GIFs that use thousands of colors per frame.
It's a CLI tool, but it can also be compiled as library for seamelss use in other apps (note that for closed-source apps you need a commercial pngquant license).
## Download and install
See [releases](https://github.com/ImageOptim/gifski/releases) page for executables.
If you have Rust, you can also get it with `cargo install gifski`. Run `cargo build --release` to build from suorce.
## Usage
I haven't finished implementing proper video import yet, so for now you need `ffmpeg` to convert video to PNG frames first:
```sh
ffmpeg -i video.mp4 frame%04d.png
```
and then make the GIF from the frames:
```sh
gifski -o file.gif frame*.png
```
See `gifski -h` for more options.
## License
AGPL 3 or later. Let [me](https://kornel.ski/contact) know if you'd like to use it in a product incompatible with this license. I can offer alternative licensing options.