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by duffyjp 758 days ago
I just ran a test on a ~4 second hires screen recording in Gifski and GIF Brewery 3 (which is what I've been using for years).

Gifski took 11 seconds, and GIF Brewery took 59. Both apps set to maximum quality, 50fps, no resizing. The Gifski version is a little bigger at 5.5mb vs 4.2mb but also looks a bit better.

I embed short screen recording GIFs into GitLab/GitHub several times a week as it's just a better user experience vs real video files on those platforms. I'm definitely switching tools! I wish I had known about this sooner.