XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.comp.freeware   
   From: marion@facts.com   
      
   On Wed, 16 Jul 2025 08:13:32 +0200, Herbert Kleebauer wrote :   
      
      
   >> have an animated GIF. So I searched for the best way to take screenrecs,   
   >> but too many programs showed up as potential Windows screen recorders.   
   >   
   >> But I'm curious, what do you use to record the screen to animated GIF?   
   >   
   > Why not use the Windows Snipping Tool (--S)? And I don't   
   > see any advantage in converting the mp4 to animated gif format. But   
   > if you really want:   
   >   
   > ffmpeg -i input.mp4 output.gif   
   >   
   > I suppose, most people already have ffmpeg installed (it is a   
   > command line tool, so it doesn't need to be "installed", but just   
   > copied to your disk), because it is THE all-purpose video tool.   
      
   Good question. I don't have a good initial answer for your question.   
      
   The answer I will give you, at least for up until you asked the question,   
   is that I tried "Win+R > snippingtool" years & years ago (when it first   
   came out) and I didn't think it did anything that Irfanview didn't do - so   
   - I forgot all about it - until you asked that question of me just now.   
      
   Perhaps a secondary answer is that I wasn't aware "Win+R > snippingtool"   
   could save the screen-recorded "video" to animated GIFs.   
      
   Looking that up, I belatedly understood why you brought up the topic of an   
   MP4 file, where I'm well familiar with ffmpeg so I understand your point.   
      
   Digging deeper though, I found out that apparently the screen recording   
   feature inside Snipping Tool is exclusive to Windows 11; not Windows 10.   
      
   The video recording to MP4 feature apparently doesn't work on Windows 10.   
   But it's good for Windows 11 users since it's native so it's already there.   
      
   As for ffmpeg, I use it to clean up my video that I post to Amazon Vine.   
       
      
   These are my favorite commands given I only need to do simple editing.   
      
   Remove metadata   
    ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -map 0 -map_metadata -1 -c copy output.mp4   
      
   Probe metadata   
    ffprobe -i input.mp4   
      
   Deshake:   
    ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vf deshake output_deshake.mp4   
      
   Remove the first two seconds of the video:   
    ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -ss 2 -c copy output.mp4   
      
   Chop the video keeping the first 30 seconds only:   
    ffmpeg -ss 00:00:00 -i input.mp4 -to 00:00:30 output_chop.mp4   
      
   Slow a video by 2.5 and remove the audio (because it will be distorted)   
    ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -filter:v "setpts=PTS*2.5" -an output.mp4   
      
   Add an audio track which is longer than the video:   
    ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -i audio.m4a -map 0:v -map 1:a -c:v copy -c:a aac   
   -shortest output.mp4   
      
   This adds the longer audio track and fades out two seconds before the end   
    ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -i audio.m4a -map 0:v -map 1:a -c:v copy -c:a aac -af   
   afade=t=out:st=83.5:d=2 -shortest output.mp4   
      
   Get the accurate length, e.g., 19.02000 (for a 19-second video):   
    ffprobe -i input.mp4 -show_entries format=duration -v quiet -print_format   
   default=noprint_wrappers=1:nokey=1   
      
   Burn subtitles   
    ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vf "subtitles=input.srt:force_style='FontS   
   ze=36,PrimaryColour=&H00FFFF'" output.mp4   
      
   Rotate (flip) 180 degrees clockwise:   
    ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vf "transpose=1,transpose=1" output.mp4   
      
   Rotate (flip) 90 degrees clockwise:   
    ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vf "transpose=1" output.mp4   
      
   Create the thumbnail (let's say a frame at 10 seconds)   
    ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -ss 00:00:10 -frames:v 1 thumbnail.jpg   
      
   Embed the chosen thumbnail   
    ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -i thumbnail.jpg -map 0 -map 1 -c copy -disposition:v:1   
   attached_pic output.mp4   
      
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