

Well, ed_dither was a little bigger in file size (12,422KB). I've tried ffmpeg as the encoder and gifsicle as the muxer but everything that I've tried has left me with a file that is the same size (9,747KB) and looks the same as the others. I've tried using just ffmpeg with different dithering methods and I tried using just gifsicle. The second one (the first one did not work). I've played with this for days and the best I can do is with MaverickTse's FFgif program. Photoshop 128color, adaptive 50% diffusion, lossy5 214KB Gimp 128color, floyd-steinberg 990KB, gifsicle optimized =>961KB Some programs like ffmpeg barely have any options, so they suffer immensely. But because of those same factors it will also benefit from using a limited palette, adaptive dithering. It's primarily greyscale on a static gradient background, so predisposed to banding as you can see with vdub's default export.


Here are some tests with an animation I did a few years ago (don't take the content too seriously, it was just for fun ). It can reduce the filesize of most gifs, but for already optimized ones like those produced in photoshop, the filesize actually gets larger What works well for some types of content might not be appropriate for others - so it's important to have options.Ī free gif optimization program is gifsicle (commandline only). What makes or breaks a gif in terms of quality/filesize ratio is the processing options, pallete, dithering algorithms, optimizations used. Haha racer-x GIF boob animations used to be so popular! But now with youtube, video embedding, broadband.
