Turn up to 30 seconds of a video into a looping GIF: pick the part on a preview, choose width and frame rate, and get a palette-optimised GIF. Runs in your browser.
Works in your browser. What you paste or upload is processed on your device.
Pick an MP4, MOV, WebM or other video up to 500 MB.
Drag the Start and End sliders, type the times, or play the video and press Start here and End here.
480 px at 12 fps suits most uses. Lower either one for a smaller file.
Press Make GIF. The first run loads the video engine (about 31 MB) once.
Watch the GIF on the page, then download it.
A GIF is a short animation made of up to 256 colours per frame that loops forever and plays anywhere an image can, including email, chat apps, docs and README files. Video to GIF lets you pick the part of a video you want on a preview player, then builds the GIF from just that part.
It uses FFmpeg's two-pass method in your browser. The first pass studies the selected frames and builds the best 256-colour palette for them; the second pass draws every frame with that palette and a fine dither, which avoids the banding and grainy look of quick converters. You choose the width (320 to 800 px, height follows the video's shape) and the frame rate (8 to 24 fps), and the tool shows a likely file size before you start.
Limits: up to 30 seconds per GIF and videos up to 500 MB. GIF is an old, inefficient format, so long or wide GIFs get large fast: 10 seconds at 480 px can easily pass several MB, and the tool shows a likely size before you start. GIFs have no sound. If you need sound or a smaller file, keep the clip as MP4.
GIFs still work in places video doesn't: email newsletters, Slack and Teams messages, GitHub READMEs, documentation and old forums. Making one from a screen recording or phone clip shows a product step or a reaction in a second, and a properly paletted GIF looks clean instead of blotchy.
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Up to 30 seconds. In practice, 3 to 10 seconds works best: GIF files grow quickly with length, width and frame rate, and many apps cap GIF uploads at around 8 to 15 MB.
Shorten the selection, lower the width to 320 or 480 px, or drop the frame rate to 8 or 12 fps. Each of these cuts the size a lot. Scenes with less movement also compress better.
A GIF can only use 256 colours per frame. This tool builds a palette from your clip and dithers carefully, which looks much better than a fixed palette, but smooth gradients and skin tones can still show fine patterns. That is a limit of the GIF format.
Yes. Pick the video from Photos, choose the part on the preview and press Make GIF, then save it to Files or share it. If Safari can't preview a clip, type the start and end times instead.
No. GIF is an image format and has no sound track. For a short clip with sound, use Trim Video and share the MP4.
No. The GIF is made in your browser with FFmpeg compiled to WebAssembly, and the video never leaves your device.
Each tool gives you one free run per day. After that, a run costs 10 credits from a free AI Rank Lab account. One run is one press of the main button, so converting several files together counts once.
Each one opens on its own page and works straight away, with no sign-up.
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