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OS X Screencast to animated GIF

This gist shows how to create a GIF screencast using only free OS X tools: QuickTime, ffmpeg, and gifsicle.

To capture the video (filesize: 19MB), using the free "QuickTime Player" application:

	#!/usr/bin/env ruby

	# Xcode auto-versioning script for Subversion by Axel Andersson
	# Updated for git by Marcus S. Zarra and Matt Long
	# Converted to ruby by Abizer Nasir
	# Appends the git sha to the version number set in Xcode.
	# see http://www.stompy.org/2008/08/14/xcode-and-git-another-build-script/ for more details

	# These are the common places where git is installed.
	# Change this if your path isn't here

	# Rotate rails logs on OS X using newsyslog
	# count: how many old files to keep around, this is dev, so 0
	# size: 1000 kb
	# when: * - only rely on the size property
	# flags: G - interpret logfilename as a shell pattern

	# logfilename [owner:group] mode count size when flags [/pid_file] [sig_num]
	/Users/jcf/Code/*/log/.log 666 0 1000 * G

	# Rotate rails logs on OS X using newsyslog
	# count: how many old files to keep around, this is dev, so 0
	# size: 1000 kb
	# when: * - only rely on the size property
	# flags: G - interpret logfilename as a shell pattern

	# logfilename [owner:group] mode count size when flags [/pid_file] [sig_num]
	/Users/jcf/Code/*/log/.log 666 0 1000 * G