Video to GIF converter

1. Choose your video, or drop it on the player. MP4, MOV, WebM and MKV work.
2. Pick the moment: drag the ends of the bar, type the times, or play it and press Now at the start and the end. Up to 15 seconds.
3. Pick a size and smoothness, check the estimated file size, and press Make GIF. Then download it.

GIF is from 1987. Each frame holds at most 256 colors and is compressed on its own, while an MP4 mostly stores what changed since the last frame. That makes GIFs big: 4 seconds of the example above is about 3.1 MB as a 480 × 270 GIF at 15 frames a second, and about 150 KB as an MP4 of the same size, around 20 times smaller.

So keep GIFs short and small. The file grows with the picture's area and the number of frames, so a size down saves more than a step down in smoothness. For 4 seconds of a 16:9 video:

Footage with lots of detail or grain makes bigger GIFs than this; screen recordings and flat graphics much smaller ones.

Chats and comments. Discord, Slack, X and most forums and messaging apps play GIFs as they are. Discord's free upload limit is 20 MB a file, so check the estimate before you make a long one.

Not on TikTok, Reels or Shorts. Those apps are made for video with sound, so post an MP4 there: cut the moment with the video trimmer, make it 9:16 with the vertical video converter, and shrink it for anywhere with a size limit with the video compressor.

A GIF has no sound, so the moment has to work without it: a reaction, a punchline you can see, a move. Start right before it happens and end right after, with nothing either side. The same instinct makes clips that people watch to the end; read how to make clips that go viral.