WAwanda·Oct 25, 2016
You could use a white desktop background and GifCam[1] / WebMCam[2].
[1] http://blog.bahraniapps.com/gifcam/
[2] https://github.com/thetarkus/WebMCam
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WebMCam
Capture frames in real-time and save them as WebM.
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Capture frames in real-time and save them as WebM.
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| Dec 2015 | 2015-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Jan 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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3 sourcesThat's the actual tool I use! Proper link is now found here, by the way: https://gitgud.io/nixx/WebMConverter
>And if you decide to do it yourself, I don't understand why you'd need to go through an mp4 intermediate.
Screen recording. Although I use a tool that simply records as a .webm ( https://github.com/thetarkus/WebMCam ) Most people aren't going to be installing random Github projects to meet their needs. I doubt many people even know what Github is outside of the tech niche. :P So they record with some other desktop recorder that outputs as a .gif or .mp4/.m4a and then would need to convert from there.
Also Imgur's .gifv wrapper seems to be more widely known than .webm. Which is unfortunate but is the case due to Imgur's popularity.
In The Long, Remarkable History of the GIFThere's also https://github.com/thetarkus/WebMCam which records in a more modern format than gif.
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