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FFmpeg is not that easy to use on it's own. It's lack of a graphical interface makes it very unfriendly to most normal users who don't have an understanding of the command line and how to write code.
But since I'd already put forth the effort and wrote a simple batch file to create GIFs on my own, I figured I'd share it and see if it helped anybody else trying to figure out FFmpeg's esoteric language.

Here's the complete script I used in the video with one minor edit (replacing "frames?" with ms, these are actually regular decimal values but I couldn't think of a better way to represent them). Just copy and paste this script into a regular .txt file and rename the extension from .txt to .bat, and drop it in a folder with your video, then double click it to run it:

ECHO off
IF NOT DEFINED vtype SET "vtype=mp4"
set /p vtype="Enter file type of original file (default mp4): "

FOR /F "tokens=*" %%G IN ('dir /b *.%vtype%') DO ffmpeg -i "%%G" -filter_complex "[0:v] palettegen" "%%~nG.png"

set /p starttime="Enter Start Time(hh:mm:ss.ms)(press Enter for the very beginning): "
IF NOT DEFINED starttime SET "starttime=0"
set /p duration="Enter Duration(hh:mm:ss.ms)(Press Enter for entire clip): "
IF NOT DEFINED duration SET "duration=0"
set framerate=12
set /p framerate="Enter the frames per second to capture (default %framerate%fps): "
set xscale=640
set /p xscale="Enter the resolution width (default %xscale% pixels): "
set yscale=-1
set /p yscale="Enter the resolution height (default %yscale%, determined by aspect ratio): "

FOR /F "tokens=*" %%G IN ('dir /b *.%vtype%') DO ffmpeg -ss %starttime% -t %duration% -i "%%G" -i "%%~nG.png" -filter_complex "[0:v] fps=%framerate%, scale=%xscale%:%yscale%, paletteuse" "%%~nG.gif"






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