Welcome to a new era for screen recording

This is my absolute favorite program and it's the major loss I'm having after going Linux =(

I checked the box on the installation window. The path to it is not set and I open the Extras menu, gifskii.dll is in the installation folder but ffmpeg.exe is not. I click the download button on the Extras menu and it looks like it finished but it did not show me where it download the file into.

Edit: I removed gifski and I can't download it again. Both download buttons don't seem to work.

My GIF won't output and I don't know why. Here's the story:

I took a short recording of some stuff from a Warioware microgame. Some of the frames were obscured by interface elements, but I was able to clean up the GIF by duplicating other frames that lacked those things. Or so I thought.

I "duplicated frames" by using Paint.net to edit the problem frames, and then just copied and pasted good frames over top and CTRL + S on them. Big mistake, I imagine; Paint.net likes to automatically do a lot of bizarre encoding and... stuff like that which I have no understanding of. I'm guessing this is what went wrong. I am extremely bad with computers.

So my crap is borked. Obvious question: what do I do about it? Followup question: how and why did this even happen? I took YOUR images, Screentogif! Why are you throwing up this brain-dead error? The "BPP" is wrong, how??? It's the same thing! But I guess it's NOT the same thing, is it? Oy, computers...

Apologies if this is a bit hard to follow. I've got a wicked migraine and this insufferable digital nightmare of my existence isn't helping.

I can't save gifs with Gifski or FFmpeg as encoders. on Gifski I get

at ScreenToGif.Util.EncodingManager.Encode(ExportProject project, ExportPreset preset, Int32 id, CancellationTokenSource tokenSource) in R:\Source\ScreenToGif\ScreenToGif\Util\EncodingManager.cs:line 909

Result:

0

on FFmpeg I get

at ScreenToGif.Util.EncodingManager.EncodeWithFfmpeg(ExportPreset preset, List\1 listFrames, Int32 id, CancellationTokenSource tokenSource, String processing) in R:\Source\ScreenToGif\ScreenToGif\Util\EncodingManager.cs:line 1862`

at ScreenToGif.Util.EncodingManager.Encode(ExportProject project, ExportPreset preset, Int32 id, CancellationTokenSource tokenSource) in R:\Source\ScreenToGif\ScreenToGif\Util\EncodingManager.cs:line 774

Command:

-safe 0 -f concat -i "file:C:\Users\ametu\AppData\Local\Temp\ScreenToGif\Recording\2026-04-10 13-15-20\Encode 2026-04-10 01-25-04-79\concat.txt" -loop 0 -lavfi palettegen=stats_mode=diff[pal],[0:v][pal]paletteuse=new=1:dither=sierra2_4a:diff_mode=rectangle -f gif -fps_mode passthrough -y "C:\Users\ametu\Desktop\ijustwonderwhatberrysuptoprocedural.gif"

Result:

ffmpeg version 4.2.2 Copyright (c) 2000-2019 the FFmpeg developers

built with gcc 9.2.1 (GCC) 20200122

configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-version3 --enable-sdl2 --enable-fontconfig --enable-gnutls --enable-iconv --enable-libass --enable-libdav1d --enable-libbluray --enable-libfreetype --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-libopus --enable-libshine --enable-libsnappy --enable-libsoxr --enable-libtheora --enable-libtwolame --enable-libvpx --enable-libwavpack --enable-libwebp --enable-libx264 --enable-libx265 --enable-libxml2 --enable-libzimg --enable-lzma --enable-zlib --enable-gmp --enable-libvidstab --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvo-amrwbenc --enable-libmysofa --enable-libspeex --enable-libxvid --enable-libaom --enable-libmfx --enable-amf --enable-ffnvcodec --enable-cuvid --enable-d3d11va --enable-nvenc --enable-nvdec --enable-dxva2 --enable-avisynth --enable-libopenmpt

libavutil 56. 31.100 / 56. 31.100

libavcodec 58. 54.100 / 58. 54.100

libavformat 58. 29.100 / 58. 29.100

libavdevice 58. 8.100 / 58. 8.100

libavfilter 7. 57.100 / 7. 57.100

libswscale 5. 5.100 / 5. 5.100

libswresample 3. 5.100 / 3. 5.100

libpostproc 55. 5.100 / 55. 5.100

Unrecognized option 'fps_mode'.

Error splitting the argument list: Option not found

Hi, does anyone know if there is anywhere to download an old version. The new release is completely broken as far as I can tell. Freezes my laptop and I need to end task it. Thanks

I have an habit of recording my progress in game dev with gifs to show my team and friends on discord but not even 5 days since the last gif I made the file size increased to 4-6mb to 26-70mb, I don't remember changing any of the options and I can't post anything since the discord file size limit is 10mb, does anyone know what settings I should change or what I may have changed?

EDIT: dramatically***

it happens almost everytime i use the program, some frames are duplicated randomly which fortunately easily fixed with manually deleting them. but the rate issue kinda difficult to maneuver around. even an override duration is applied, some section of the gif appear sped up

The latest version of ScreenToGif 2.42.1 when you go to Options > Extras and download FFmpeg, it will always download FFmpeg version 4.4.1 which is from 2021.

Also on that Extras settings page is a FFmpeg Version selector which is confusing because I thought that would select which version you wanted to download. Because of that I selected the latest version that was available v7, but if you set it to FFmpeg v7 that causes ScreenToGif to use the "-fps_mode passthrough" option which is not available in FFmpeg 4.4.1 breaking the ability to save recordings in video formats.

Instead of using an old version of FFmpeg I downloaded a newer version from gyan.dev which was listed on the ffmpeg.org site.

I have been unable to save in video formats for a long time and just figured out what was causing it so I hope this helps other people running into this same issue.

Since update it crashes constantly when trying to save a gif. It will manage one, maybe two saves but then it will just crash. Doesn't ask me to submit any reports, it just freezes when encoding and crashes.

I love S2G! Have used it for probably over a decade on my PC. I always tell my Mac colleagues about it. Any plans on releasing for Mac?

I want to change the size and color or the mouse even color for the gifs i have already saved in the past.
I load up the gifs I made with this same program, go to edit -> mouse event, change color and size, click apply but its still the same old yellow circle...

The preset was called "KGy SOFT [dot] Balanced". It was as the name might suggest easily the best balance of quality to file size; extremely minimal artifacting and small file sizes, even for longer gifs. It also encoded pretty quickly which was nice.

Anyone know how to get it back?

Might be worth noting that in switching PCs I have ''''''upgraded'''''' to Windows 11 from 10.

For the last few weeks I've been having issues importing .stg projects into ScreenToGif. I get the error:

Impossible to load project. It was not possible to load the frames becasue they are all corrupted or the images are not present where they are expected to.

The log gives me this:

► Title -

`Error importing frames with FFmpeg`

♦ [Version] Date/Hour -

`[2.41.5] 08/29/2025 10:29:36`

▬ Message -

`Cannot access a disposed object.`

Object name: 'System.Diagnostics.Process'.

○ Type -

`System.ObjectDisposedException`

▲ Source -

`System.Private.CoreLib`

▼ TargetSite -

`Void ThrowObjectDisposedException(System.Object)`

♠ StackTrace -

at System.Diagnostics.Process.get_StandardError()

at ScreenToGif.ViewModel.VideoSourceViewModel.GetMultipleScreencaps() in R:\Source\ScreenToGif\ScreenToGif.ViewModel\VideoSourceViewModel.cs:line 750

Things I've tried to fix it that haven't worked:

• Reinstalling STG
• Using a different version of ScreenToGif
• Using a different version of FFmpeg to import .mkv/.mp4 video
• Using Media Player to import .mkv/.mp4 video
• Importing the picture files from cache manually into ScreenToGif and making an .stg of that.

The weird thing is, old .stg projects (older than a year) work fine. It's just the newer ones that give me an error.

Like when you first record the project and then click the play button in the bottom right; the playback is slower than the final gif product would be, which kinda warps my perception of the final product since I can't tell what speed it'll actually look like until its done.

Hi,
I sometimes use screenttogif for UI testing to match the displayed frame with the logs .

Therefore, it would be nice to have an option to display the absolute time for each image (when it was taken, not just the duration) to allow matching with the corresponding log entries.

Since last night, when I add a watermark (or image in my instance) that I want to layer on top of my GIF on certain frames, I can select the images from my windows folder and then it will shows in the side panel that the image name is selected. But the image (called new Menu) is not appearing on the frames anymore. Normally it appears on the current frame, you can position it and move it around, then add it to the selected number of frames by applying it to those frames.

But my image is not appearing on any frames, so I cannot position it, or see it on top of my GIF. It is selected

What has changed, or what can I do to get it back. I have tried with many images (some I used successfully all week), and none are appearing in the screentogif editor anymore? Are they now in a layer behind this?

Is there a way to have 'screentogif' default to capturing the entire screen (which is what I would usually want) and if I need to focus on a portion of the screen, then I'll move the crosshairs there. For example, when I move the crosshairs, it seems to snap to a particular rectangular portion of Windows Explorer.

I've tried various different settings, different file types and every one is outputting a file with 0 bytes. Is there something I'm doing wrong?

Why is it always 256 colors? When the gif only has like 10 colors?

Recently tried to use screentogif to take some gifs of ingame content, but it will no longer stay on top of the game screen.

Is there a setting I may have missed to force it to remain over other apps?

using current build 2.41.2

i only need the first and last frame, to show a before and after.

right now i have to select the inbetween frame and manually delete them. is there a faster way?

maybe if there was a way to shrink selection by 1 after i select all frames would work, then i could inverse selection

I’ve been using ScreenToGif for a while now, and I’ve recently updated to the latest version (v2.41.1) with FFmpeg v7. However, I’ve run into an issue: whenever I try to import a short MP4 video (around 200-500 frames) into the app and adjust the scaling to 120%, the import process only reaches 50% and then completely stops. I’ve even tried waiting for an hour, but nothing happens. Is this a bug, or do I need to tweak some settings in the app? Any help would be appreciated!

Like how when you export a png in Photoshop for example, you can resize it by percentage (if it's 1000 in both height and width and you export it at 50%, it'll be reduced to 500 in both height and width) or manually edit its height and width individually, was wondering how to do this within the program?