I thought OBS would be fine with it being the primary tool for that and streaming for years. Setup takes a minute, but guess it’s too complicated still for newbies. Hm well without resizing people on Windows can also use Windows+ALT+R and just use the Windows record function and then just convert them to webM through one of the Million online services available. I think someone that also releases paid scripts should know a bit about how to do those things. It’s the absolute minimum lol. You can’t just setup OFS, prepare a source file and script correctly and then not know how to make a simple WebM/GIF.
For OFS there is also the noob friendly version StreamLabs.
Hey everyone,
what do you think of my way displaying the previews ?
What I do is I record a lot of different parts of the script in full screen with OBS,
and on after effects I create a 260x260 composition and resize and position the outputs to fit in there.
If I resize and position one I just replace the video source and position and scale will be exactly the same for the next one. To export I use the plugin Gifgun wich is awesome in terms of optimisation, turns out I can export 20sec in one gif ( in 12.5fps ) under the 8mb limit in great picture quality.
But other than that you can just export an H264 and use Photoshop to convert it in Gif with the “Export for the web” settings. I prefer the gif than the videos cause it doesn’t need a click on the play button.
Edit : Just red @Slibowitz last post so sorry it’s probably a little bit of an advanced method to produce the previews but one thing to retain I think is the framerate is essentiel for the weight of a gif and I think 12.5fps is really enough for a preview, hope I helped a bit
Looks really good and the quality of the gifs is pretty good too and shows everything very well. As you said, that method is probably nothing for the average user, since it requires a lot of steps.
Tried it. Maybe I did something wrong and didn’t set it up correctly, but I end with ~100MB gifs.
And the same gif made to mp4 to webm is around 3mb. Would be way less directly going from Mp4 to WebM. WebM is not that new anymore so people should use that. It was made to replace gifs.
So please everyone do not use gifs anymore if you can. Let gifs finally die.
bitrate = target size / duration, so you can approximate how long your video can be whilst falling under 8MB.
There’s also the more advanced way of doing it which is to use the actions feature. It automatically execute a command to encode the video using ffmpeg.
