Video to GIF
Turn a short clip into a looping GIF.
Drop the video to turn into a GIF
Short clips work best. Up to 10 minutes, 2 GB.
GIF is an old format and far less efficient than video: the same picture costs a much bigger file. It survives because it plays and loops by itself everywhere - chat apps, forums, documentation.
There are two ways to keep the file sane: keep it short and keep it small. That is why the default is 12 frames a second at 480 pixels wide. A few seconds at those settings is usually a few hundred kilobytes; the same clip at 30 frames and 1080 pixels can run to tens of megabytes.
A GIF carries no sound. Drop a video with audio and the audio is quietly dropped - that is the format, not a limitation here.
Your video is never uploaded. The work happens inside the browser, on your own device, and the page keeps working offline once it has loaded. So there is no upload to wait for, no queue, and no file sitting on somebody else’s server afterwards.
Making a GIF from a long video is rarely a good idea. Trim the few seconds you want first, then convert that.
Common questions
- Will my GIF have sound?
- No. The GIF format cannot carry audio. Use MP4 or WebM if you need sound.
- Why is the file so big?
- GIF stores every frame as its own image. Lowering the frame rate and the width helps most.
- How long should it be?
- Two to six seconds. Longer GIFs get large and lose the sense of a loop.
- Why did the colours shift?
- A GIF holds at most 256 colours. The engine picks the best palette for your clip, but a small shift is possible.