Video → GIF
Video to GIF converter
Scrub to the moment you want, pick a slice of up to 15 seconds, and get a looping GIF — made entirely in this tab.
GIF is an old format: a few seconds of video can easily become several megabytes. Keep the slice short and the width small — 480 px and 10 fps is a good starting point.
At a glance
- Price
- Free
- Account
- None needed
- Upload
- None — the video is decoded and the GIF is written in your browser tab
- Input
- MP4, MOV, WEBM, MKV, M4V
- Output
- Animated GIF, up to 15 seconds
- File size
- 1 GB per file
- Works on
- Recent Chrome, Edge, Firefox or Safari (Firefox 130+, Safari 16.4+)
How to make a GIF from a video
Add the video
Drop an MP4, MOV, WEBM or MKV file on the box above; a preview player appears so you can find the moment you want.
Set the slice
Pause the preview at the right frame and press "Use the paused moment" to fill in the start time, then pick the length (up to 15 seconds), width and frame rate.
Download the GIF
The animated GIF appears with its size and plays right in the page. Download it and drop it into any chat or page.
Why GIFs are large, and what to do about it
A GIF stores a palette of at most 256 colours per frame, and every frame is a full picture — there is no modern compression inside it. That is why a three-second clip can weigh more than the minute of video it came from. The three knobs that matter are all here: a shorter slice, a narrower frame and a lower frame rate each cut the size directly.
The frames are pulled from the video by the browser's own decoder and quantised to the palette on your device. Nothing is uploaded, and the 15-second ceiling is deliberate: past it the result stops being a GIF anyone wants to load.
Video to GIF questions
Is my file uploaded anywhere?
No. The video is decoded in this tab and the GIF is assembled in memory on your device. There is no server step at all.
Why does my GIF stop at 15 seconds?
Two reasons: size and memory. A GIF holds every frame as a full picture, so longer clips grow into many megabytes, and the browser has to keep the frames while it works. Fifteen seconds at 10 fps is 150 frames — plenty for a reaction, a proof or a snippet.
How can I make the GIF smaller?
Cut the length first, then lower the width (320 px is already readable in chat), then the frame rate (8 fps looks fine for most motion). Each one shrinks the file almost proportionally.
Does the GIF have sound?
No — the GIF format has never carried audio, and this tool does not add any. If you need sound, share the video itself, or extract an MP3 beside it.
Why do the colours look different from the video?
GIF frames share a 256-colour palette, so gradients and subtle skin tones can band. That is a property of the format, not of the conversion.