Video to GIF online - turn a clip into an animated GIF

GIF compresses images far less efficiently than modern video codecs, so file size grows fast. It is driven mainly by number of frames × pixels per frame. The number of frames is simply clip length × frames per second, and the height follows the video's proportions automatically.

Going from 720 px to 480 px wide cuts the pixel count by about 56% and usually halves the file. The Frames and GIF size counters update live, and you get a warning before encoding if the settings would produce a very heavy file (over 60 million pixels in total). If the finished GIF is larger than 8 MB, the tool suggests how to slim it down.

The width slider moves in 20 px steps. The GIF is never scaled above the source width, so a 640 px wide video stays at most 640 px. The clip must be between 0.2 and 15 seconds long. For software demos, record your screen with the screen recorder and convert the recording here.

The GIF format allows at most 256 colours per frame. To avoid colours flickering from frame to frame, the tool samples up to 8 frames spread across your clip and builds one shared palette for the whole GIF. Flat graphics, UI and cartoons look great this way; gradients, skies and skin tones can show some banding or grain. The GIF loops forever and has no sound, because the format does not support audio.

If you do not strictly need a GIF, a short MP4 or WebM looks better and is often 5-10 times smaller. GIF still wins where an image has to autoplay and loop everywhere without a player: email clients, forums, issue trackers and documentation. To make a short video instead, cut it with trim video and shrink it with the video compressor.

Privacy note: the video is decoded and the GIF is encoded locally in your browser. Nothing is uploaded, so you can safely convert private or unreleased footage.