Screen To GIF - Screen, webcam and sketchboard recorder with an integrated editor

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    ScreenToGIF_Startup.png ScreenToGIF_Editor.png ScreenToGIF_Options.png
    Why use Screen To Gif?
    All the basic image modification tools are available
    An overall great program for generating highly customized animations
    Screen To GIF v2.11 (December 23, 2017)
    https://github.com/NickeManarin/ScreenToGif/releases
    What's new?
    • APNG support (for saving).
    • Added the option of copying the output file/filename/folder after the encoding.
    • Added the option of running post encoding commands.
    • Added the Obfuscate feature. It's used to pixelate a region of the image.
    • You can now use FFmpeg or Gifski to save your gif.
    • Added the option of uploading the gif to Imgur or Gfycat. (Experimental feature)
    • Added the Spanish (Spain) translations.
    • Updated the Russian and Chinese (Simplified) translations.
    • You can now download FFmpeg and Gifski directly using the app. Head over to Options > Extras to download it.
    • It's now possible to press the enter key to load the selected project from the table of recent projects.

    Bug fixes:
    ♦ Images with high dpi (for example, 600dpi) were not displayed correctly.
    ♦ Clicking on 'Recent Projects' if the temporary folder does not exist would give an error.
    ♦ After changing the delay of frames, the Statistics tab was not updating.
    ♦ When opening a project (or any other file) via drag and drop on top of the executable (or link) or via the "Open with..." context menu, the app was opening the startup window instead of the editor.
    ♦ While using the new recorder, if the record button was pressed without a screen region selected, an error was happening. Now it will enter the selection mode.
    ♦ While clicking on the link to open the file that already exists for types other than Gif, it was only opening the gif file.
    Requirement: .NET 4.6.1 or later
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    guest, Dec 23, 2017
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  2. guest

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    Screen To GIF v2.12 Released (February 4, 2018)
    https://github.com/NickeManarin/ScreenToGif/releases/tag/2.12
    What's new?
    • Remove frame duplicates: It's a feature that allows you to remove frames that are similar to its neighbors.
    • Key Strokes: It's now possible to show the key presses before it actually happened.
    • Key Strokes: You can avoid displaying modifier keys while they are not part of a keyboard command.
    • Key Strokes: You can add/remove/edit your keys strokes.
    • If there's not enough space left on the drive, a warning message will appear on the editor window.
    • You can now also control the zoom of the image by using a small up/down field at the bottom of the window.
    • It's now possible to set the maximum age that a project can reach before being deleted automatically. It defaults to 5 days old.
    • Updated Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, German, Italian, Polish and Danish translations.
    • Upload of files via Yandex is now supported.

    Bug fixes:
    ♦ While discarding the recording, the app would let you start a new recording before finishing erasing the files of the previous one.
    ♦ Encoding with Gifski (Note: It's now using a DLL instead of the executable).
    ♦ While adding overlays (Free Text, Free Drawing, Border...) with an image with a DPI not equal to the current DPI of the screen, the overlay content would not appear on the right position of the frame.
    ♦ The recorder window position was not being restored properly if the window was closed while it was on a secondary monitor.
    ♦ Encoder: Right-clicking to copy a video file was crashing the app.
    Requirement: .NET 4.6.1 (or above)
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    guest, Feb 4, 2018
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  3. guest

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    guest, Feb 20, 2018
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  4. guest

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    Screen To GIF v2.13 Released (March 18, 2018)
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    What's new?
    • Added the option to upload to an Imgur personal account. You can also upload to albums.
    • Added the option to display an icon on the system tray, with the possibility of launching the recorders and editors from a context menu or from a keyboard shortcut.
    • Added proxy support.
    • Added support for selecting the PrintScreen key for the keyboard shortcuts.
    • The hint text that appears when a panel gets opened will stay visible until you close that panel.
    • The zoom is restored to the previous value after closing the side panel.
    • The position of the startup window is now remembered.

    Bug fixes:
    ♦ The warning that appears when there's not enough space left on disk will only be displayed when there's less than 2GB left.
    ♦ It was not possible to save board recordings with Gifski as the encoder.

    More info:
    Known issues
     
    guest, Mar 18, 2018
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    Hey, not half bad. Thanks mood to bringing attention to this.

    A multitasker on this end it pains to run my portable screen recorder at times especially when tracking percentages and load with Process Hacker or other real-time system gauge tools. BUT, this one Encodes to GIF!

    And the GIF processed looks really smooth and sharp. Whatta Find!
    Even manages to loop the end product too! And just to add another nugget noticed, small size process result with NO LAG.
     
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    EASTER, Mar 18, 2018
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  6. guest

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    I find it very easy to create animated gif's with this application.
    With a few mouseclicks the animated gif is ready ;)

    The editing features are also useful, for example obfuscating of certain areas is possible (to hide private things), etc.
     
    guest, Mar 18, 2018
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    This thing is golden. It's to my knowledge the very best of them I ever worked with. And it's still ongoing development.

    Local GIFS editors/makers have (for me anyway) been really hard to find and they always have issues where you finally have to give up on them altogether.

    I long relied on Gif Animator for editing but it's so outdated anymore and always stressed my unit, plus the quality was less than expected so this is a real FIND in this book.

    THANKS!
     
    EASTER, Mar 18, 2018
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  8. guest

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    Screen To GIF v2.13.1 Released (April 2, 2018)
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    What's new?
    • The Simplified Chinese and Japanese translations were updated.

    Bug fixes:
    ♦ When there's a project open, when closing the recorder without recording, the app would crash.
    ♦ When removing duplicated frames and not finding any frame to be removed, the app would crash.
    ♦ Issues related to the numerical input that accepts decimal values.
    ♦ Some settings were not saved after closing the app.
    ♦ Files with uppercase extension were not being recognized by the app.

    More info:
    Known issues
     
    guest, Apr 2, 2018
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    I have to send Nicke some bug a boo reports. It still in this fresh stage is a pretty cool program.

    Thanks @mood. This update message showed up on the GUI tonight too.
     
    EASTER, Apr 2, 2018
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  10. guest

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    Screen To GIF v2.13.2 Released (April 15, 2018)
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    What's new?
    • The Dutch translation was updated.

    Bug fixes:
    ♦ Performance issues with the startup of the app.

    More info:
    Known issues
     
    guest, Apr 14, 2018
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    :thumb:
     
    EASTER, Apr 14, 2018
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    ;)
    The startup is really much faster now. The previous version needed "a few seconds" to start, 2.13.2 is starting promptly :thumb:
     
    guest, Apr 15, 2018
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    Yeah I know and it was doubly hard for me since I usually have several windows going almost always all the time.

    Don't know if I just overlooked it before but I found the SELECT ALL for frames to add either a DELAY or step up the animation or whatever else the features allow you to enhance with.

    It does process and SAVE the modifications very fast.
     
    EASTER, Apr 15, 2018
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    I started loving his lil program. :thumb:
     
    Mr.X, Apr 15, 2018
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    Screen To GIF v2.13.3 Released (April 24, 2018)
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    What's new?
    • The Dutch translation was updated.

    Bug fixes:
    ♦ The Imgur upload was not working.

    More info:
    Known issues
     
    guest, Apr 24, 2018
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    I won't or need to update this latest since it's working really effective with the exception this below and I know they are looking at it plus some others mentioned.

    Really worthy program in my opinion. Some Cinemagraphs or even gifs with lots of frames crashes on Easy Gif Animator. Not this one. It pulls them in very well with no drag or delay.
     
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    EASTER, Apr 24, 2018
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  17. guest

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    Screen To GIF v2.14.1 Released (August 10, 2018)
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    v2.14.1
    What's new?
    • Updated the Spanish (Argentinian) translation.
    Bug fixes:
    ♦ For some users, the app would simply close when stopping the recording and opening the Editor.

    v2.14
    What's new?
    • You can now set up to avoid receiving a confirmation message before closing the app via the tray icon.
    • Added the ability to get updates for the translations.
    • The color picker hexadecimal field now supports pasting/typing without specifying the alpha/transparency value.
    • You can now review your feedback before sending it to the developer.
    • It's now possible to personalize the size of the mouse clicks highlight. Also, you can apply it even after the recording.
    • You can now let the app start minimized to the system tray.
    • You can now create some tasks to be executed after each recording. (More to come)
    • Troubleshooter: If any window is missing (outside of the screen bounds), you can use the troubleshooter to reset its current or startup position.
    • Added the option to disable hardware acceleration.
    • Now the app warns when trying to open a project that is already opened in another editor instance. Also, the task that clears the temporary folder will not delete any project that is open.

    Bug fixes:
    ♦ The code that positions the recorders was improved.
    ♦ Two buttons were being displayed at the KeyStrokes editor, one got removed.
    ♦ The progress indicator value (for the percentage, without showing the total) was wrong.
    ♦ If you tried to apply a caption with just spaces, the app would crash. Now a warning appears, explaining that you need to type something.
    ♦ Improved the "FFMpeg/Gifski is not present" warning.
    ♦ When clicking to save the project as multiple images, without zipping and pressing 'No' right after a prompt appeared, the Save/Cancel buttons of the panel would be disabled.
    ♦ The framerate of the encoder 2.0 could be wrong by an offset of 9ms.
    ♦ When importing a translation, the 'new lines' were not being correctly identified.
    ♦ When using relative paths such as '.' for the temporary folder, an error would appear.
    ♦ When trying to crop, the app could crash (because of a high DPI issue).
    ♦ When selecting a screen region (using the new recorder UI), the app could crash (also a high DPI issue).
    ♦ The slide transition was getting the amount of frames from a wrong slider (this caused a crash when undoing the transition).
    ♦ When entering snapshot mode with the recorder UI, without having any region selected and pressing "Record", the app would crash. Now it prompts for a region of the screen to be selected.
    ♦ Editing the key strokes of the last frame was not possible. The key input was being ignored.
    ♦ When a screen gets disconnected, all Editor windows will be moved to an available screen.
    ♦ When cancelling the selection of the compression method used by the system encoder (video export), the app would crash.
    ♦ When using the 'Remove duplicates' feature, the option to conserve the total delay of the removed frames was not working when selecting the option to remove the first duplicate frame.
    ♦ When using the 'Remove duplicates' feature, trying to undo the previous action that had no frames to be removed, a crash would happen.
    ♦ Pressing 'Stop' when a the pre-starter countdown is still active was not really stopping it.

    Known Bugs:
    ♠ Using an automated task to add the key strokes will still use the color and font settings from the main settings.
     
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    guest, Aug 9, 2018
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    Alright! Yeah!!

    Glad to see this. The forum's SEARCH didn't turn up anything for me the other day when I was going to ask if a new update was possible soon. It's because I entered Screen2GIF :eek: instead of the right name and spaces :geek:
     
    EASTER, Aug 9, 2018
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  19. guest

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    Screen To GIF v2.15 Released (December 19, 2018)
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    v2.15
    What's new?
    • The algorithm that analyzes each frame, looking for pixels changes, is now a bit faster.
    • You can now add basic shapes. This feature is still experimental and there's more shapes to be implemented.
    • You can now export your project as a PSD file.
    • Updated the French and Russian translations.
    Bug fixes:
    ♦ When opening the app via the "Open with" context menu, Gifski and FFmpeg were not being found (if they had a relative path).
    ♦ Also, it was fixed some other issues related to selecting the FFmpeg/Gifski files when the previous path was relative.
    ♦ The app could crash when editing key strokes of a project.
    ♦ It was impossible to undo the "Remove duplicates" action when using the option "Don't adjust".
    ♦ Also, because of that bug, when applying the "Remove duplicates" action with other option than "Don't adjust" and later applying with that option, the app would crash too.
    ♦ Board recorder: When trying to discard a recording, the app could crash.
    ♦ With the new recorder UI, when changing from selecting a Region/Window to selecting a Screen, the Accept/Retry/Cancel UI was appearing when it should not.
    ♦ Small adjustments with the new recorder UI for high DPI screens.

    More info:
    Known issues
     
    guest, Dec 18, 2018
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  20. guest

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    Screen To GIF v2.15.1 Released (December 20, 2018)
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    guest, Dec 20, 2018
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  21. guest

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    Screen To GIF v2.15.2 Released (January 8, 2019)
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  22. guest

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    Screen To GIF v2.16 Released (January 17, 2019)
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    guest, Jan 17, 2019
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  23. EASTER

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    :thumb: This is been super workhorse of an app. Appreciate keeping the updates posted :)
     
    EASTER, Jan 18, 2019
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  24. guest

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    Screen To GIF v2.17 Released (April 11, 2019)
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    What's new?
    • You can now use different themes! Light, medium, dark and very dark are now available.
    • New automated task: You can now create a task that alters the delay of each frame.
    • Progress indicator: Now you can add the exact timestamp of each frame (based on the start date of the recording).
    • When you start the app without any settings, the default folder where the frames are stored (Location folder) is now set to %temp% instead of a hardcoded path.
    • Now you can use your arrow keys to move and resize the selection rectangles from the new recorder and from the Crop feature. Just use the three combinations of commands with Ctrl, Shift and arrow keys.
    • Updated the Japanese translation.
    Bug fixes:
    ♦ When removing duplicated frames, there was no indication that the process was still going on.
    ♦ When applying the KeyStrokes with a margin, it would result in a wrongly sized panel.
    ♦ If you cancelled the video import, the progress bar would not be hidden away and the app could crash.
    ♦ When creating a new blank project and trying to apply the Obfuscation feature, the app would crash, because of the image depth.
    ♦ When using the FFmpeg as the APNG encoder, the app would crash if the parameter field was empty.
    Known issues
     
    guest, Apr 10, 2019
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    Oddly, this new app is qualified front and center on this end and performs every bit to expectations.
    It does great with the feature of +- speed and cropping as well as makes it easy to produce a finely edited animated GIF
    The screenshot capture is icing on the cake.
     
    EASTER, Apr 10, 2019
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