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Video to GIF Converter

Turn a part of a video into an animated GIF with good colors — choose start, length, size and frame rate.

🔒 Your video is processed locally in your browser. Your file is never uploaded.

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How to use the Video to GIF Converter

  1. Choose a video and find the moment in the preview.
  2. Set the start, length (up to ~15 s works best), width and frame rate.
  3. Click "Make GIF" and download it.

Common use cases

  • Make a reaction GIF from a funny clip
  • Show a product feature or UI bug as a looping GIF
  • Create GIFs for chats, forums or documentation

Example

4 seconds at 480 px wide and 12 fps usually gives a 1–3 MB GIF that loops smoothly.

What the Video to GIF converter does

It turns a short part of a video into an animated GIF that loops everywhere, in chats, forums, READMEs and emails, with no player needed. It uses FFmpeg's two-step palette method (the same technique used by GIF sites), so colors stay clean instead of blotchy, and it adds no watermark.

GIF is an old, inefficient format: size grows quickly with length, width and frame rate. 3–6 seconds at 480 px and 12 fps is the sweet spot, usually 1–3 MB. If the GIF is still too big for where you want to post it, try 320 px or 10 fps.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Q: Is my file uploaded to a server?
A: No. The tool runs FFmpeg compiled to WebAssembly inside your browser tab. Your file is read directly from your device and the result is created locally. Only the video engine itself (open-source ffmpeg.wasm, about 10 MB compressed) is downloaded the first time, from a public CDN; after that it is cached.
Q: How big can the file be?
A: Up to about 500 MB works well on a computer and about 150 MB on a phone. Larger files may still work but can be slow or run out of browser memory. Trimming the clip or lowering the resolution first helps.
Q: Why is it slower than a desktop app?
A: The browser version of FFmpeg runs on a single CPU core and without hardware acceleration. A 1-minute 1080p re-encode typically takes 1–3 minutes. When possible the tools copy the streams without re-encoding, which takes only seconds.
Q: Does the GIF have sound?
A: No. The GIF format can't contain audio. For a short clip with sound, trim the video with the Video Trimmer instead.