Slight redesign and Quality slider

Quality Slider

So tonight I released the 'Quality Slider' for yt2gif.com.  This slider will control how much data will be  output to the final gif.  It currently has 4 levels (may be upped later if there is a need for it).  1 is lowest quality, while 4 is highest quality.   The reasoning behind not just giving everyone the highest quality possible is that some sites, most notably Tumblr do not accept gifs over a certain threshold, which can be quite annoying to some users.  A sample file size degradation is listed below.

• Quality Level 1: 551kb
• Quality Level 2: 831kb
• Quality Level 3: 2.1mb
• Quality Level 4: 4.4mb

There are currently two quality level groupings, the old codec of gif that has been used up to this point (which equated to quality level 2, and is the default quality level), and levels 3 & 4, which use the png codec.  Because the two groups each have their own codec, the picture quality will remain the same, but file size is roughly cut in half for most gifs by removing every other frame.  Below are samples of the two quality level groupings.  Hopefully you can tell a difference.

Unfortunately, this feature is not available yet for reverse and append gifs, as this grows file size greatly.  These gifs will remain at quality level 2.

Slight Redesign

I also released a slight redesign of the front page.  Let me know what you think about it.

Feature Suggestions

What else do you guys want to see?  If you have any suggestions for features, please leave them here as comments or tweet @TheIllFatedScum.  Or, if you really hate the site, let me know why so I can change it!

Reverse/Append & Remake

First post, very well could be my last.  Just wanted to explain a couple of new features at yt2gif.com and the reasoning behind it.

Reverse & Append

I've been wanting to do this feature for a while, but haven't gotten around to it until last night into this morning.  This feature does exactly what it says it will do -- it reverses the gif you create and appends it to a forward motion version of the gif.  

A lot of people have been asking for this, and it seems that so many people go to gif reversing apps or download and reverse offline, so it seemed this was absolutely necessary.  It also was not that complex of an operation to do.  Turns out the tool used to create gifs from still frames, Gifsicle, has the option to render in reverse and also to append.  Makes my life easy!

Remake a GIF

I have been wanting to create this since I started the app for my own personal needs and found it was a pain to make my gif just right.  The branch for this code has been open since October 2012, but it is now possible!  Gifs that are remake-able should have a button in the bottom right of the gif viewing window.

Gifs that have been created after this feature was introduced (about noon today) will all have the ability to do this.  Unfortunately, all gifs created before this point in time will not have this ability, as we simply did not collect enough data about each created gif to make this possible.