Optimising short screencasts using ffmpeg

For the previous post on file completion in Emacs I wanted to attach a short screencast demonstrating the feature in action. I recorded it with macOS's Screenshot app and then converted into gif using ffmpeg, so that it plays automatically: ffmpeg -i emacs-cape-file.mov emacs-cape-file.gif By default, the resolution of the videos recorded by Screenshot is quite high, so no surprise that the output gif turned out to be huge 1.4M . Even though it was only part of the screen recorded, the resolution was 1730x1658 , which is way more than I needed to publish it on a web page. To reduce the resolut

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