GIF Screen Recordings & FFmpeg

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FFmpeg is a free & open source software to convert video files from one to another format. For Dropshare, we will use it to automatically convert .mov screen recordings to a .gif file, or to convert raw screen recordings from .mov to .mp4 faster and with smaller file sizes.

Automatically install FFmpeg

Dropshare can automatically install FFmpeg. To do so, open the app Preferences, navigate to General and click Install FFmpeg. This will install a static FFmpeg binary from GitHub. By clicking install, you agree that Dropshare downloads and installs a pre-built FFmpeg application from GitHub. Please note that the source of this FFmpeg application is not affiliated with Dropshare.

Manually install FFmpeg with Homebrew

FFmpeg can be manually installed with Homebrew. Homebrew is a package manager for macOS that helps to install software.

If you haven't yet installed Homebrew, you can do so by following their install instructions. Open Terminal.app & copy and run the install command line from the website.

Afterwards, you can install the required software FFmpeg with the following command:

brew install ffmpeg

Then you will be able to create GIF screen recordings with Dropshare, or use faster conversion from .mov to .mp4.