VIDEO TO GIF
☞ runs entirely in your browser — nothing is uploadedDrop your video here
or click to browse — MP4, WebM or MOV, up to 200 MB
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VIDEO TO GIF
Pick the seconds you want, choose a frame rate and a width, and get a GIF — made on your own machine, with the video never leaving it.
or click to browse — MP4, WebM or MOV, up to 200 MB
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the browser already has a decoder — its own
There is no video decoder in this page, and there does not need to be one: your browser already plays MP4, WebM and MOV. So the work is to step through the clip, draw each moment onto a canvas, and hand the stack of canvases to a GIF encoder. Seeking to a timestamp and drawing that frame is something every browser has done for years — which is why this works in Safari and Firefox and not only in Chrome, and why nothing had to be downloaded to make it work.
A GIF holds 256 colours per frame and has no inter-frame compression worth the name, so the size is decided almost entirely by two numbers: how many frames, and how wide. Ten frames a second at 480 pixels is the usual compromise, and doubling either one roughly doubles the file. The frame count is capped at 100, because past that a GIF is both enormous and worse at its job than the video you started with. Everything happens on your machine: the player reads the video straight from disk, and the GIF is assembled here.
three steps
MP4, WebM and MOV up to 200 MB. The file is not read into memory; the player pulls it off the disk as it goes.
Scrub the preview to find the moment, then set a start and an end. Two to six seconds is what most GIFs want.
Frame rate and width decide the file size, and the line beneath them tells you how many frames you are about to make before you commit.
quick answers
Whatever your browser can play. MP4 with H.264 is universal, WebM works everywhere except older Safari, and MOV usually works. If a file will not open you get a message saying so rather than a silent failure.
Because a GIF stores every frame almost in full. Halve the frame rate or the width and the file roughly halves. Dropping to 64 colours helps a lot on flat, graphic footage and barely shows; on a photographic clip it may band.
Past a hundred frames a GIF stops being useful: bigger than the video, slower to load and worse to look at. If you need a long clip at full smoothness, the video itself is the right format to keep.
No. GIF has no audio track at all — that is the format, not a limitation of this page.
No. The player reads the file straight from your disk and the GIF is assembled in this page. There is no server in this tool to receive a video.
Recent iPhones record in HEVC, which Safari plays but other browsers often will not. Either open this page in Safari, or set Camera, then Formats, then Most Compatible on the phone so new recordings are H.264.
Not here. Make the GIF first — the GIF crop, resize and speed tools will then trim and adjust it.
Yes — free, with no watermark and no sign-up.