How to make animated gifs in max/msp?

enque's icon

Hello all.
My goal is to create animated .gif images from movie files on my computer. I am aware of alternatives for creating animated gifs, but I would like to make myself a Max setup for making them. I need to be able to specify the start and enpoints.

I have tried using jit.qt.record and I always receive the error "jit.qt.record: bad codec specified" even though gif is on the list of supported codecs for the object. I have also sending a exportmovie message to the jit.matrix object.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

enque's icon

Anyone? Bueller?

tdk1007's icon

I'm trying to figure this out as well.

I've got a simple patch that exports frames from the webcam, I'm guessing an external app is needed to compile them into an animated gif. I'd suggest a combination of automator and graphic converter.

]oris's icon

Is there someone who figured it out already?

To export animated gif with max/msp ?

Robin Price's icon

Use pyext to automate some shell script that takes the jpegs of your image sequence and spurts out a gif.

itoyuya's icon

I done it. I used "FFmpeg".
When we used "ffmpeg" via "shell" object, we must enter each full-path.
Be careful.