Why do GIFs look clearer with this converter?

We use two-pass custom palette generation (palettegen + paletteuse) which analyzes the exact colors in your video to produce vibrant, crisp GIFs without color banding.

How do I keep my GIF file size small?

Keep frame rate at 10-15 fps and width at 480px or lower. GIFs use uncompressed frame data, so capping resolution keeps the output lightweight.

Home/Video to GIF

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Convert video clips
to animated GIF.

Turn any video clip into an optimized animated GIF for documentation, GitHub READMEs, social media, or chat apps with two-pass color palette generation.

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🛡️ Private Local Processing: Your video is converted directly in your browser’s memory and is never uploaded anywhere.

Create Animated GIF

Upload a video, choose your frame rate and resolution caps, and export as a GIF.

Drop a video here, or click to browse

MP4 · WebM · MOV · AVI · MKV

Frame Rate (FPS)

Max Width

How it works

Upload your video. Select any short clip.
Adjust settings. Capping width to 480px and FPS to 10 keeps the GIF crisp while staying under typical file size limits.
Create & Download. Two-pass palette generation builds a custom 256-color palette before compiling the animated GIF.

Common questions

Why are GIFs often larger than MP4 videos?

GIF is an older format without modern video compression techniques. Capping resolution to 480px or lower helps keep file sizes manageable.

What is two-pass palette generation?

Instead of using a generic color grid, our engine scans your video first to generate a custom 256-color palette matching your clip's exact colors, eliminating color banding.

Convert video clipsto animated GIF.