Gif Optimization Controls at Export

It looks Hype has its Gif export at the poorest quality. Can we have optimization controls for Gif's please? Maybe like Photoshops 'Save for Web' optimization controls or close to? That said, the latest Photoshop 2025, when loading an mp4 and using its Save for Web picking/choosing what works best shows optimized as 1.5mb however when saving it out it's actually 4.5mb? I'm not sure if it's a bug however, 4mb doesn't work, I then tried other options at my disposal like Imageoptim however it doesn't really give any previews like photoshop. I tried some web tools one gave me optimization controls but still kind weird is ezgif.com I was able crunch it down to 1.5ish mb. Just wish Hype had controls.

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This is definitely good feedback and I'd love to provide more here, but the reality is this isn't likely to change any time soon...

Right now Hype's GIF export uses the imagemagick command line tool*.

Last I looked into this, there were not too many GIF exporters that did at least an okay job and were with a compatible license for commercial software.

Unfortunately the imagemagick tool does not have a ton of options, and those it does have are pretty esoteric:

https://usage.imagemagick.org/anim_basics/

Further how Hype uses it is highly tied to the options we give it. For example, we run a second pass that tries to shrink the GIF further.

I'd actually be wondering in 2025 how much this is really needed -- like what spots do you still need GIFs for that a muted MP4 would not be able to be used?

I'd sadly say if you're serious about GIFs then you'll still want to do a PNG sequence and use your own tools :frowning:.

* by default; there's a hidden preference to use Apple's GIF export framework, but that has even less options

looked into using https://www.ffmpeg.org? looks like ezgif.com is using it behind the scenes and its pretty good, all things considered.

convert to gif gives you the following options:

choosing optimize gives you

All with previews like this

Hmm I don't think that was one I looked into in the past. It seems some parts are LGPL (should be compatible) and others are GPL (not compatible). I'll look further, thanks!

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Very true, I wouldn’t use .gifs since it’s an ancient format. I was asked to mock up an email and in that email I was told to try to add videos to entice audience and .gif is the only option :weary:, kinda like what crate&barel does now, their emails are both minimal as well as impressionable.

https://gif.ski/ Is another one seems like it’s open source and free for developer to use. I have to see its optimization options by downloading the app in the Mac App Store will report my findings.

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