How to create high quality gifs [help needed]

[katateochi]

I'm looking for some tips and advice on which software to use to create and then host high quality gifs.
I mostly want to create short clips from KSP footage to post with craft, just to showcase a certain feature or show a pan around of the craft.  So nothing long, just around 10 second clips.

First, should I be creating .gif or .webm?

I've used a program called Wondershare Filmora to create both file types and it produces pretty ok quality, the webm versions have significantly smaller filesize. But which ever I create, when I upload them to imgur the end result is much more compressed and quality is poor. 
I see people posting insanely high quality gifs on imgur, so what is the trick?

 

[qzgy]

Maybe try uploading just a normal video format like mp4 to imgur. I checked out one of those super high quality gifs and judging by the url/file extension, it is an mp4. So they're not really gifs.

As long as the file size is less than 200 MB, it should work fine (200 MB is what I heard is the max size, I just tested a 188 MB video file and that seems to work fine). They should (if all is good) also autoloop, so you dont have to worry about that.

Edited August 19, 2020 by qzgy

[Castille7]

I've tried gif cat before thinking this would give a good quality gif like the ones we're seeing but that didn't seem to work either. I would like to know how these are done also

Edited August 30, 2020 by Castille7

[kerbiloid]

Maybe they use GIFV?

https://www.ceros.com/inspire/blog/how-to-create-high-quality-gifs/

[magnemoe]

Have this I made some years ago. 

Granted its an render and made of an an series of images as then I could just redo parts with bugs 
Used imgur.com but had to add 

[ img ]link [ / img ]

as imugr don't have this and this forum don't give img insertion.
Remove whitespaces as this broke code segment. 

Edited August 21, 2020 by magnemoe