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Free Video to GIF: Cut the Moment, Get a Looping GIF

Drop the clip from your phone, slide to the moment, and get a looping GIF right in your browser, ready to replay in any chat.

Frames per second
Width
Your video plays here; pick the part you want and it becomes a looping GIF.

Runs on your device: the file never leaves your browser.

No clip to convert? Type one line and AI draws the GIF for you.

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Video to GIF: A 6-Second Clip Turned Into a Loop

A 6-second husky clip went through this converter: 3 seconds from the start, 320 px wide, 10 frames per second.

Before: MP4 clip

Dimensions
1280×720
Length
6.0 s
File size
834 KB
Looping GIF of the howling husky made from the video

After: GIF

Dimensions
320×180
Length
3.0 s
Frames
30 at 10 fps
File size
963 KB

The same 3 seconds at 480 px came out at 1.88 MB; pick the width for where the GIF is going. Video: Klaudya Teodora on Pexels, released under CC0.

How to make a GIF from a video

How to Convert a Video to GIF

Drop in the video

MP4, MOV or WebM straight from your phone or a screen recording.

Pick the moment

Slide Start at and Length; the player loops exactly the part that becomes the GIF.

Set width and fps

480 px at 10 fps suits chat. Go 640 or 800 px and 20 or 25 fps for smoother motion and a bigger file.

Make and download

Press Make GIF, watch it loop next to the video, and save it.

Good to know

Video to GIF Settings That Matter

This is the easiest video to GIF converter to get right, because only three numbers decide how the GIF looks and how heavy it is.

Congratulations confetti GIF cut from a video, two seconds at 10 fps
2 seconds · 20 frames · 467 KB

Length: up to 15 seconds

GIF has no video compression, so every extra second adds weight. Two to four seconds of the one moment people will replay is the sweet spot.

Open 24 Hours neon sign GIF made from a video at 20 fps
20 fps · 40 frames · 362 KB

Frame rate: 5, 10, 20 or 25

GIF timing counts in hundredths of a second, so these four rates play back at exactly the speed you filmed. 10 fps keeps files light; 20 or 25 fps keeps fast motion smooth.

Birthday cake GIF made from a video at 240 pixels wide
240 px wide · 20 frames · 384 KB

Width: 240 to 800 px

Doubling the width roughly quadruples the pixels per frame. Need the result under a set size afterwards? The GIF compressor gets it under 256 KB, 1 MB or 5 MB.

Answers

Video to GIF FAQ

Formats, length, iPhone videos and privacy.

Yes. It runs in your browser, so there is no sign-up, no limit on how many GIFs you make and no watermark.

No. The frames are captured and encoded on your device; the video never leaves it, which also means a big file does not have to upload first.

Yes. An iPhone saves its videos as MOV, and the converter takes MOV as well as MP4 and WebM. On a Windows PC, an iPhone video recorded in HEVC may not play in the browser; set the iPhone camera to Most Compatible, or send it as MP4.

Up to 15 seconds from anywhere in the video. The video itself can be longer; you slide to the part you want.

No, GIF is a picture format with no audio track. If you need sound, keep it as a video; if you have a GIF that needs to be a video, use GIF to MP4.

Yes, make the GIF here, then put top and bottom text on every frame with add text to GIF.

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