Yes, often what would happen is by the time I figured out the flags, I'd lost the creative idea of what I wanted to make a gif for. Usually I was using them as replies on Twitter, but they banned me from there and Reddit so I have less need to make GIFs.
I knew how to in Photoshop etc, before they moved to the cloud so they can be paid in perperuity even though a lot of the advanced/useful features like layers or cropping etc are in more basic tools like Preview or GIMP now.
(GIMP needs to get a macOS friendly rewrite similar to how folks did KeePassXC imho, but I'm not a strong enough coder and no large open source friendly companies seems to want to pay me a salary to direct projects like that, so all I can do is halfway troll here on HN, but it comes from a place of love.)
I'm not the parent, but not necessarily. You can have this same exact "GUI" implemented as a TUI, using something like Bubble Tea[0], Textual[1], or by hand. You'd get a similar experience without having to go back and forth between the terminal and a browser.
Thank you! Sorry, I have a lot of projects going at once and I'm working on a new system to organize "TODOS" - I'll bookmark your comment to return to, thank you for your thoughts, sincerely.
A TUI FFMPEG builder would be delicious. Just a terminal powered graphical interface that lets me manipulate options, and feedback validation, would make it so much easier to work with complex graphs.
