FileNotFound VideoFileClip exception, followed all the installation instructions about moviepy HOT 5 CLOSED

The gif writing is slow because ImageMagick is slow. If you want something much faster, you can use ffmpeg by using clip.write_gif("myanimation.gif", program="ffmpeg"), your gif will be even bigger in size, but it will be generated very fast, so it's useful for previewing, and when you are happy with the result you remove program="ffmpeg" and it will generate the gif with ImageMagick.

If you want a smaller size, use ImageMagick, but then it's more an art than a science, here is what you can do: (1) reduce the fps. Movies can have up to 30fps which is way too much for a gif. Try clip.write_gif('test.gif', fps=15). (2) use the opt option. It can be opt=OptimizePlus or opt=OptimizeTransparency. It will tell ImageMagick to reduce the size of the GIF using some compression methods. (3) if you have a clip with very few colors, provide colors=3. Note that for many colors like colors=256 the algorithm can be superslow.

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thanks very much... sorry for me being lazy didn't read the write_gif documentation..
where do i put the color parameter though?

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in write_gif. I am closing the issue (as it seems to be solved) but if you have more questions you can still ask them in this thread.

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it gives me error if I put it in write_gif, reading the documentation there is no color parameter too

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Strange. But this parameter is only here since the very last version (on github). Forget about it for now, it's not tested anyway.

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