Video & Audio
Video to GIF
Make an animated GIF from up to 15 seconds of a video. No upload, no signup.
Files stay on your device How it works
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MP4, MOV, WebM or MKV · one file, up to 25 MB
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How to turn a video into a GIF
- Choose a video, MP4, M4V, MOV, WebM or MKV, up to 25 MB and 30 minutes long. Its first five seconds are chosen to start with, with pictures of their first and last frames.
- Drag the sliders, or type the start and end, to pick up to 15 seconds. Set the frame rate, the width and the looping; the line under the sliders shows how many frames that makes, and the GIF’s size in pixels.
- Press Make GIF. A small preview appears with the file size, the frame count and the length; then download it: holiday-clip.mov becomes holiday-clip.gif.
Keeping it small
GIFs get big quickly, so each choice matters:
- Length: every second adds frames, up to 225 in all (15 seconds at 15 a second). A few seconds is often enough for a reaction or a single step of a how-to.
- Frame rate: 10 frames a second is a middle choice; 5 or 8 make a smaller, choppier GIF, and 15 the smoothest and largest.
- Width: 240 or 320 pixels make a smaller file than 480 or 640. The height follows the video’s shape, and a video narrower than the width you pick keeps its own width.
- Dither: smooths gradients such as skies and shadows, but makes a larger file.
What a GIF can hold
GIF is an old picture format: at most 256 colors, and no sound. This tool picks one set of 256 colors for every frame, so colors don’t flicker from frame to frame. A clip with more colors than that loses some, and the note under the result says so. “Loop forever” plays the GIF again and again; “Play once” stops on the last frame.
Which browsers work
Making a GIF means reading the video’s pictures, so it needs a current Chrome, Edge or Firefox, or Safari 16.4 or later. HEVC (H.265) video, which iPhones often record, needs a browser that can decode it, such as Safari; if yours can’t, the page says so when you choose the file.
Good to know
Your video stays on your device; nothing is uploaded. This tool takes a stretch of one video. To make a GIF from photos instead, use GIF Maker, which turns 2 to 50 pictures into an animation. To keep the sound and the full picture, cut the clip with Trim Video.