Geek Software of the Week: QGifer

This week’s GSotW is Open Source, and, therefore, free! It is also very handy, in these days of the resurgence of GIF’ery on the Interwebs! Check it out! It is a video-based animated GIF creator. Fun to play with!

QGifer – Animated Gifs from Videos

Features

• GIF extraction from a video file
• Color palette editor
• Variable color palette support
• Dithering
• Text rendering
• Graphics insertion
• Object interpolation
• Cropping
• Filtering
• Looping by appending reversed copy
• GIF optimization through ImageMagick
• Project management
• Translations: English, Swedish, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Czech, Chinese, German

Here’s a neat tutorial for how to use QGifer.

How To Create A GIF from Video on Ubuntu With QGifer