[sarah2079]

This is an awesome idea. I would love the option to upload a short video clip instead of a gif though, and have it take 10 evenly spaced frames from the video. My nieces (ages 8 & 10) would love to use this to make prints of themselves in action, but it would be easier for them to be able go straight from a video taken with a phone to a printed product.

[shashashasha]

Thanks! We currently do support Vine and Instagram video, and you can pick a short clip from there. Processing all videos in all formats is a little tricky right now and it's helpful to have the pre-constraint of those social networks. Taking video from a phone is a great idea though!

[doctorwho]

It's pretty easy to extract all the image data from ANY video source using FFMPEG. If the command line version doesn't fit into your workflow, there's always libavcodec (what FFMPEG is based on). Give me a shout if you're interested in supporting any and all video formats.

[menubar]

Pretty sure you can do that in Photoshop and/or specialty apps. See "Cinemagraphs/Cinemagrams".

For example: http://www.reddit.com/r/Cinemagraphs/

[Sir_Cmpwn]

Expanding on what doctorwho said:

    ffmpeg -i input.whatever frame-%04d.png

Explode virtually any video format into frames, assuming that you've configured ffmpeg generously at compile time.

[shashashasha]

Totally! We just need to do more work on our end to make sure we don't end up accidentally accepting multi-gig video files. Vine and Instagram is a convenient way to start because it's much more constrained :)

[Sir_Cmpwn]

    client_max_body_size 50M;

[shashashasha]

Haha awesome. We need to step up our game! We're primarily frontend designer/developers and this is our first node.js project :)

[adamryman]

This might help http://gifmachine.xwl.me/