MP4 & video to GIF — clip, size and speed of your choice
Turn a short video clip into a GIF — pick the start and end, the size and the frame rate, and the whole conversion runs in your browser. Nothing is uploaded.
Runs entirely in your browser — nothing is uploaded.
All processing happens in your browser. Your file is never uploaded.
The video is decoded by your browser's own player and re-encoded to GIF frame by frame on your device — nothing is uploaded, so screen recordings with sensitive content are safe here. GIF is a spectacularly inefficient format: 256 colours per frame and no real compression, so a few seconds at 480 px is easily several megabytes. Keep clips short, and if the destination supports video (most chat apps do), an actual MP4 will look better at a tenth of the size — GIF earns its keep where autoplay-without-sound is required and video is not accepted.
How to use
- Drop in a video. MP4, WebM — anything your browser can play.
- Choose the clip. Start and end in seconds. Short is beautiful: 2–5 seconds is the GIF sweet spot.
- Pick size and frame rate. 480 px at 12 fps is the sensible default.
- Convert. The GIF previews on the page and downloads automatically.
Questions
Why is my GIF so much bigger than the video?
Because GIF is a 1989 format being asked to do video’s job: 256 colours per frame, no motion compression, every frame stored in full. A clip that is 300 KB as MP4 can be 5 MB as GIF, and that ratio is normal. Where the destination accepts video, video is simply better — GIF earns its place where autoplay-without-sound is required and video uploads are not allowed.
What settings keep the file size sane?
The three levers in order of power: length (halving the clip halves the size), width (320 px is a quarter the pixels of 640), and frame rate (12 fps reads as smooth for most content; 8 works for slow scenes). A 3-second, 480 px, 12 fps GIF typically lands between 1 and 3 MB.
Is my video uploaded anywhere?
No. Your browser’s own video player decodes the file, each frame is drawn to a canvas on your device, and the GIF is encoded there too. Screen recordings — which often contain names, messages or account details — never leave your machine.
Why does the GIF have no sound?
GIF has no audio track — the format cannot carry sound at all. That is not a setting; it is the format.
The colours look slightly off. Why?
GIF allows at most 256 colours per frame, so the encoder builds the best palette it can for each frame. Gradients and subtle shades take the visible hit; screen recordings and animation survive nearly untouched.