Convert video to GIF
Turn a clip into an animated GIF for chats and documents. Up to 60 seconds; width and frame rate control the file size.
Settings
How to use
- 1
Add a video
Drop the video you want to turn into a GIF.
- 2
Set range, width and frame rate
GIFs get large quickly: keep the range to a few seconds, the width around 480 px and the frame rate around 10 fps. Maximum 60 seconds.
- 3
Run and save
Each frame is reduced to 256 colours and written to the GIF. You can choose whether it loops.
Keeping the GIF small
GIF is an old format that stores each frame as a 256-colour image, so files are far larger than video. At 480 px and 10 fps, expect 200–500 KB per second. A few seconds, at most 480 px wide, around 10 fps is the practical range.
Live-action footage with many colours looks coarse after colour reduction. Screen recordings and animations with fewer colours convert to GIF much better.
Frequently asked questions
How can I make the GIF smaller?
Shorten the range, reduce the width and lower the frame rate — size scales with each.
Can I convert more than 60 seconds?
No. The GIF would reach tens of megabytes and be impractical, so there is a cap. Share longer clips as video.
Why do the colours look rough?
GIF is limited to 256 colours, so gradients and live action become banded. This is a format limitation and cannot be fixed with settings.
Can I make a GIF that does not loop?
Yes. Turn off "Loop" and it plays once.
Help us improve the service
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What is sent
- The tool you used and the settings you chose (output format, quality, etc.)
- Your device specs (GPU, memory, core count)
- The input format with a rough size
- How many files succeeded or failed and how long it took
- The error type and details when something fails
What is never sent
- The files themselves and file names
- Text, subtitles or prompts you add to a video
- The text to be read aloud, voice descriptions, the pronunciation dictionary and saved voices
- The text in PDFs, the text you rewrote or redacted, passwords, font names and the page ranges you enter
- IP addresses
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Details sent by specific tools (counts, times, kinds and yes/no only)
In addition to “What is sent”, text to speech and the PDF tools send the following details.
- Text to speech
- The approximate number of characters and sentences, how many parts the text was generated in, and how long the AI model took to load.
- PDF tools (all)
- The page count range, whether editing is restricted, whether a permissions password was entered, and whether the PDF is signed or encrypted.
- PDF text editing and redaction
- The numbers of rewrites, deletions, white-outs and redactions, the number of rewritten characters by source (original font or fallback font, the latter as a range) and the fallback typeface, the kinds of reasons why lines cannot be edited, and the number of pages turned into images by redaction and the reasons.
- PDF page operations and conversion between images and PDF
- The numbers of inputs and outputs, of pages rotated, deleted, duplicated or moved, of images inserted as they are, converted, in HEIC format or with corrected orientation, and of pages rendered at a lower resolution (all as ranges), whether the original was updated in place or a new document was created, and whether the original protection was reapplied, form fields were written into the page and bookmarks were added back.
- PDF compression
- The numbers of inputs and outputs, of images downsized, not downsized and black-and-white, of downsized images whose transparency was also downsized, that stayed lossless or that were converted from CMYK to RGB, and how many times the file was compressed (all as ranges), the kinds of reasons images were not downsized, whether the target size was met and the kind of reason it was not met, the range of how much smaller the file got, whether the original protection was reapplied, and whether the original PDF was returned unchanged.
- PDF cropping and page numbers
- The numbers of inputs and outputs and of pages cropped, numbered or with their margins reduced (all as ranges), how the margins were set, how the pages to crop or number were chosen, the number format and position, the range of the starting number, that the original was updated in place, and whether the original protection was reapplied.