It is fairly easy to create a GIF from a QuickTime .mov file, which showcases some new product or a workflow you may have. Here is how do achieve that:
brew install ffmpeg gifsicle
ffmpeg -i input.mov output.gif
ffmpeg -i input.mov -vf "fps=10,scale=320:-1:flags=lanczos" -c:v gif intermediate.gif
gifsicle -O3 intermediate.gif -o optimized.gif
But this got me thinking, why GIF? What’s in a GIF?
GIF
Remember CompuServe? They invented GIF. GIF stands for Graphics Interchange Format and it is a bitmap image format. CompuServe led by American computer scientist Steve Wilhite and released on June 15, 1987.
steganography
s11y is the study of hiding messages in plain sight
What about steganography with GIFs?
- Calder White wrote about it here: Hiding data from humans and computers in GIF files | by Calder White | Medium
- and built a prototype: gif-msg/gif_msg.py at master · CalderWhite/gif-msg · GitHub