It's the middle of the night. I've been working on this for 2 months straight. I have like no followers lol, but I needed to put it on the internet. Here's my working VapourSynth installation guide on arm64 macs (yes, the ones that didn't work anymore. crazy right).
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Anyone willing to give it a go, please DM me before !!! I haven't had the chance to let anyone test out the installation, so message me if you do before I can send it to any resource accounts or make an official post ðŸ˜
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this is a note I made after experimenting (halfway) with various tools while looking for an alternative to photoshop in gif-making. the reason I am not using photoshop is because I have an old macbook with a very limited storage space, and I need to prioritize the installation of apps for research.
14/7
pure ffmpeg: it looks complicated so I am checking with vapoursynth and maybe trying to use vapoursynth + ffmpeg
13:55 --- installing vapoursynth via homebrew, on MacOS Monterey 12.7.6 Intel graphics --- brew install vapoursynth
14:37 --- i GaVE Up. it took too long to install the dependency: llvm. this happened to me before with ffmpeg because it's installing from source. it took 6 hours and it's not even finished! so I install via packaged ffmpeg for macOS. and i don't wanna go trough this again. looking for other options right now... --- did brew cleanup and brew autoremove
15:03 --- trying this vs installation tutorial from hackmd.io.
15:51 --- this is a slightly late update but I successfully installed vs on macOS.
[resting...]
00:00 --- finally got to try it. resized the video in vs and converted it to a gif using ffmpeg via terminal. just a quick test and it turned out pretty okay-ish. no specific tweaks like sharpening, color adjustment, or anything. will document again tomorrow (or later today). I made cat gifs.
[resting...]
15/7
22:05 --- just a quick update. after I managed to gif'ed something last night, I tried again today and my vs broke hahahahahahaha idk something error happening. too busy to check. will probably reinstall if (after several hours) I'm too lazy to find the workaround.
16/7
17:05 --- well, suddenly it's working now. resized/cropped a video using vs, convert to gif using ffmpeg.
Hi! if you don't mind, can i ask what you usually adjust in vapoursynth? i was playing with it but my output would always look like it has beauty filter or sumn lol. Btw, I love your gifsets!! so natural and looks HD <3
Hi!! I usually only encode the video without adding any sharpening or denoise filters (only if the source video is not really high quality but I only do as a last resource because I'm not a big fan of how it looks with so much denoise in it). So I only add sharpening when I'm already giffing it on Photoshop.
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So im just wondering if a fix was ever discovered for this problem on vapoursynth? like im using my mac m1 pro and this thing is the main reason why i dont do gifsets anymore. i wanna go back to it, so does anyone knows a way to fix it????
could you go into a little bit of detail about vapoursynth as a program if you don't mind? because the vapoursynth i'm familiar with runs solely with the command line interface using python and i have a feeling thats not what people are talking about but i could be wrong honestly 😅 and was just curious if you minded explaining what you used it for (and maybe how it's set up a bit so i know if i'm thinking of the right vapoursynth?)
yeah sure! to preface, i have a mac computer. if youre asking these questions as a gif maker, ie u want vapoursynth installed, and you have a mac, it is gnarly to install. i have coding background and consider myself tech savvy and it was hell, lmao. if you have windows, it's apparently easy as pie. lucky them.
yes, the vapoursynth i use/am talking about runs via python code (for macs) but not entirely python interface, like you dont need visual studio code or any app like that. at least for mac users, you have to download "vapoursynth editor" (and a lot of other stuff ie files that make vapoursynth run) from a vapoursynth tutorial for macs (like i said earlier, windows may be different bc i have a mac). this is the tutorial that contains the link to download "vapoursynth editor" and more for mac. btw, vapoursynth from this tutorial also currently works with the latest mac OS software, ventura 13, which is what i have. vapoursynth editor is like another version of vs code, or at least thats how i like to think about it.
this is what it looks like when i open "vapoursynth editor":
so, very similar to vs code.
this is what the app itself looks like (the one on the right):
the white robot dude is where you drop in the video that you want vapoursynthed (for lack of better word lol), which also comes in that link i shared. i used to use vapoursynth for cropping and sharpening/smoothing kpop videos to turn into gifs on photoshop, but now i just use it for cropping because i like photoshop's sharpening more. once i click and drag the video i'd like to crop/edit/sharpen into the white robot dude, i mess around with the video's dimensions, sharpening quality, etc. this is what that interface looks like to do that:
and when im done, i copy the code from the top right corner into vapoursynth editor, the screenshot from earlier that looks like vs code. to save the video with the settings you want...
i go to "script" in the top left corner of my computer,
and hit preview, just to see if the sharpening/smoothing settings i selected look ok with the video. this is what preview looks like:
if im satisfied, i go back to script in the top left corner, but this time i hit encode video. this pops up:
i usually edit the very last bit of the code in the argument block (the output/output.mov) to something like, output/a-clever-name-so-ik-which-video-this-is.mov, and then i hit start in the bottom right corner and my computer sharpens/smoothens/crops the video.
when you say "explain how vapoursynth is set up" i'd imagine that means how to install it (on a mac)? please correct me if im wrong (by sending another ask), but if thats the case then the tutorial i linked explains it all!
i hope i hit everything you wanted anon, and send me another ask if you want to hear more about something in particular or want a more detailed vapoursynth tutorial, or something. thanks!
