Video to GIF
Create a compact animated GIF from video.
Add source files
Drop a video clip to turn into a GIF.
Pick an animation tool
Create a compact animated GIF from video.
Fine-tune
Optional — sensible defaults are already set.
About Video to GIF
Turn a short video clip from almost any common container (MP4, WebM, MOV, MKV, AVI or M4V) into a looping animated GIF. The clip is scaled to 640 pixels wide and resampled to the frame rate you pick, then written as a GIF that loops forever. GIF is still the format that embeds in the most places, from old forums to email clients that refuse video.
When it helps
- Turning a screen recording of a bug or UI interaction into something you can paste into an issue tracker or chat.
- Making a reaction clip or meme from a few seconds of footage.
- Adding a moving product demo to an email newsletter, where video tags are usually stripped.
- Embedding an animation in documentation or a README that only accepts images.
Tips
- GIF stores every frame as a separate image with at most 256 colours, so size grows fast with length. Trim the video to the few seconds you need before converting.
- The frame rate slider runs from 6 to 24 fps. 10 to 12 fps is usually enough for screen recordings; go higher only for fast motion.
- Camera footage with gradients, skies or skin tones will show banding and dithering because of the 256-colour limit. If the destination supports it, animated WebP keeps full colour at a smaller size.
Good to know
Quick answers about video to gif in your browser.
Video codecs only store what changes between frames and use far stronger compression. GIF uses simple LZW compression on palette images, so a few seconds of GIF can outweigh a minute of MP4. Lower the frame rate or shorten the clip to bring the size down.
No. The GIF format has no audio track, so any sound in the video is dropped.
There is no fixed limit, but conversion runs in the browser and long clips produce very large files. Clips under about ten seconds give the most usable results.
Yes. There is no sign-up, no watermark and no limit on how many files you process.
No. Files are read and processed locally in your browser, so they never leave your device.
Related tools
Part of the GIF Converter collection.