GIF to MP4
☞ runs entirely in your browser — nothing is uploadedDrop your GIF here
or click to browse — animated GIF only
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GIF to MP4
Turn a heavy GIF into a light MP4 that plays anywhere videos do — every frame kept, at its original speed.
or click to browse — animated GIF only
same frames, fewer bytes
GIF is a format from 1987. It stores every frame as a full picture limited to 256 colours, with compression that was never designed for motion — which is why a few seconds of animation often weighs several megabytes. Video codecs such as H.264 only store what changes between frames, so the same animation as an MP4 is usually a fraction of the size and often looks cleaner, without the grainy dithering GIFs are known for.
An MP4 is also accepted in places a GIF is not: many social networks and messaging apps take videos but reject or re-encode animated GIFs, and presentation and editing software handles video far better. This converter keeps each frame exactly as long as it lasted in the GIF, can repeat a short loop several times because a video does not loop on its own, and fills transparent areas with a colour you choose. Everything runs in your browser.
three steps
Choose an animated GIF. It is read in your browser — nothing is uploaded — and converted straight away, with the original and the video side by side.
Repeat the animation so a short loop lasts longer, shrink a very large GIF, or pick the colour that fills transparent areas. The video is rebuilt each time you change something.
Check the size difference under the preview and download the video. The GIF itself is left as it was.
quick answers
It depends on the animation, but video is almost always far smaller: a GIF with lots of motion or photographic colour commonly shrinks by more than half, and many shrink much more. The exact before-and-after size is shown under the preview.
Yes. A GIF can give each frame its own duration, and every frame is kept for exactly that long in the video, so the animation plays at the same speed. GIFs that ask for a zero delay are played at the 100 ms browsers use for them.
Video players usually stop at the end. Use the repeat setting to play the animation several times in a row within the same file, which is useful for short loops you want to post or share.
MP4 video has no transparency, so see-through areas are filled with the background colour you choose. Pick the colour of the page or post the video will sit on.
The file is a standard MP4 with H.264 video, the most widely supported video format there is, so it plays on phones, in messaging apps, on social networks and in editing software.
Most current browsers can encode video directly, which takes a moment even for long GIFs. Browsers without that ability record the animation as it plays instead, so conversion takes about as long as the GIF itself; the page says so when that happens.
No. GIFs never contain sound, so the MP4 has a video track only.
No. The GIF is decoded and the video is encoded inside your browser, then saved straight to your downloads. There is no server in this tool.