Video to GIF turns a short part of a video into an animated GIF that plays everywhere: in chats, emails, documents, forums and slides. Pick where it starts and ends, how wide it is and how smooth, and the GIF is made in your browser.
How to make a GIF
- Click Choose a video and drop an MP4, MOV, WebM or MKV file.
- Set From and To, a Width and Frames per second.
- Click Make GIF, check the preview, then Download.
From and To are pre-filled with the first five seconds. Times use minutes and seconds (0:12) and accept tenths (0:12.5).
Size guide
| Use | Width | Frames per second | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chat reaction | 320 px | 8–12 | 2–4 s |
| Documentation, tutorials | 480–640 px | 12–15 | 5–10 s |
| Smooth motion | 480 px | 24 | 2–3 s |
What decides the size of a GIF
Three settings multiply each other: length × frames per second × width × height. Doubling the width roughly quadruples the pixels in each frame. Going from 12 to 24 frames per second doubles the number of frames. So a 3-second GIF at 800 px and 24 fps can easily be ten times the size of the same clip at 480 px and 12 fps.
Content matters too. A still screen with one moving cursor stays small; a shaky phone clip, where every pixel changes in every frame, gets large fast. If the result is too big, change one setting at a time, starting with width.
Colours
GIF can show only 256 colours in each frame. Each frame here gets its own palette chosen from that frame’s colours, which keeps skin tones and screen recordings clean. Smooth gradients, such as a sunset sky or a soft shadow, may show visible bands; that is a limit of the format, not of the settings.
Tips
- For screen recordings, 640 or 800 px keeps small text readable; 8–12 frames per second is enough for mouse movement.
- To find exact times in a long video, play it in any player (or in Trim Video), note where the moment starts and ends, then type those times here.
- If a site accepts video, an MP4 is usually far smaller than a GIF. GIF to MP4 does the reverse conversion.
Private by design
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