Is there an easy way to figure out approximately how long a .gif image takes to play one time in Javascript?
Uploads are limited to 15 seconds, although we recommend no more than 6 seconds. Uploads are limited to 100MB, although we recommend 8MB or less. Source video resolution should be 720p max, but we recommend you keep it at 480p. Keep in mind media will appear mostly on small screens or smaller messaging windows.
Standard GIFs run between 15 and 24 frames per second. Overall, the smaller your GIF file size, the lower the quality will be. When creating GIFs for the web, it is all about finding the smallest file size possible without sacrificing too much quality.
The frame rate can be calculated by counting how many delays fit in 1 second of animation. For example, if the delay is 100ms, then the frame rate is 10fps (because 10×100ms = 1 second), or if the delay is 40ms, then the frame rate is 25fps (because 25×40ms = 1 second).
Average size of a GIF960×540 for our wide format is ideal. Second, you can reduce the # of frames per second – something like 5 or 6 per second is fine.
The identify
command from ImageMagick can give this information:
$ identify -verbose file.gif | grep 'Elapsed time'
Elapsed time: 0:01.080
Elapsed time: 0:01.150
Elapsed time: 0:01.230
...
Elapsed time: 0:04.250
Elapsed time: 0:04.330
Elapsed time: 0:04.399
Elapsed time: 0:04.480
The last line printed should be the total length of the animation.
The accepted answer doesn't give the exact result. Elapsed time
is like a real world clock while ImageMagick runs the animation. What you want is the Delay
field for each frame and sum them up.
$ identify -verbose fail.gif | grep Delay
Delay: 10x100
Delay: 10x100
Delay: 10x100
Delay: 10x100
Delay: 15x100
Delay: 10x100
Delay: 10x100
Delay: 10x100
Delay: 10x100
Delay: 10x100
Delay: 10x100
Delay: 10x100
Delay: 10x100
Delay: 10x100
Delay: 10x100
Delay: 10x100
Delay: 10x100
Delay: 10x100
Delay: 10x100
Delay: 10x100
Delay: 10x100
Delay: 33x100
Delay: 10x100
Delay: 10x100
Delay: 10x100
Where 33x100
is a delay of 330ms.
Edited by Mark Setchell
You can actually extract the delay parameter somewhat more surgically (than by using grep
) with the %T
escape:
identify -format "%T\n" animation.gif
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
11
11
11
11
11
11
11
26
And get the total with awk
like this:
identify -format "%T\n" anomation.gif | awk '{t+=$0} END{print t " centiseconds"}'
183 centiseconds
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