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Set GIF quality #69
Description
All the GIFs I'm getting seem a little blurry. Is there any way to set the quality?
Output doc/source/images/operator-install.gif
Set FontSize 18
Set Width 1200
Set Height 200
Set Padding 20
Set TypingSpeed 25ms
Type "helm install --wait --repo https://helm.dask.org --create-namespace -n dask-operator --generate-name dask-kubernetes-operator"
Sleep 500ms
Enter
Sleep 5s
Enter
Type "kubectl get daskclusters"
Sleep 500ms
Enter
Sleep 2s
Enter
Type "kubectl get pods -A -l app.kubernetes.io/name=dask-kubernetes-operator"
Sleep 500ms
Enter
Sleep 5s
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maaslalani commentedon Oct 28, 2022
One thing you can try is to increase the
HeightandWidthand increase theFontSizeand then scale it down after.maaslalani commentedon Oct 28, 2022
I think there might be a few things we can do somethings on our end regarding font anti-aliasing, etc... as well
maaslalani commentedon Oct 29, 2022
@jacobtomlinson This is what I get when I run the VHS with the following settings:
I doubled all the values and it came out crispier. Hope that helps!
jacobtomlinson commentedon Oct 31, 2022
Oooh that's much better, thanks @maaslalani!
lrstanley commentedon Jul 26, 2025
Worth noting that at least with the current version of VHS, scaling up the height/width and font size, also seems to affect all of the timing for everything. The resulting file runs about 50% faster. It gets worse if you also increase the framerate (which shouldn't impact the duration, only the amount of frames in the GIF).
jackspirou commentedon Aug 6, 2025
I started a discussion #644 around a working (for me) SVG implementation fork at https://github.com/agentstation/vhs - might be helpful 😄
dimk90 commentedon Jul 22, 2026
Oh, this 2× resolution workaround reveals an even more annoying problem: playback speed changes with the resolution 🤦. Adjusting the resolution should not change the recording’s timing or duration.
dimk90 commentedon Aug 25, 2026
tmux+asciinema+aggavoids both problems here - no GIF quality loss and no timing drift at higher resolutions. Wiring them by hand is more work than a.tape, so there is S-VHS, a small bash wrapper providing a tape-like recording style.