Is the video uploaded to make the GIF?

No — the whole conversion, including palette generation, happens locally with ffmpeg.wasm in this browser tab.

Will making a GIF from a long or high-resolution clip be slow on my phone?

GIF encoding with palette generation is CPU-intensive; a short, low-resolution clip converts quickly on a phone, but long or high-resolution source video will process noticeably faster on a desktop browser. Trimming to a few seconds first is the biggest speed win on any device.

Why does the two-pass palette matter?

GIF only supports 256 colours at once. Generating a custom palette from the actual clip (palettegen) before mapping frames to it (paletteuse) avoids the banding and colour shifts a naive conversion produces.

What's the difference between GIF and animated WebP here?

GIF is universally supported but limited to 256 colours; animated WebP supports far more colours and usually produces a smaller file at similar quality, though a few older apps don't display it.

How do I make a boomerang GIF?

Turn on the Boomerang option — it plays the clip forward then immediately in reverse, looping seamlessly, without needing to trim a separate reversed copy.

ToolMano

Video to GIF

Turn a video clip into an animated GIF or WebP with palette control.

No uploadNo signupWorks offline

Drop files here or click to choose

MP4, WebM, MOV or MKV · converted to GIF/WebP/APNG in your browser

Up to 20 MB

Output format

Frame rate (fps) — 12

Width (px)

Trim to a range

Start (HH:MM:SS)

End (HH:MM:SS)

Quick presets

Choose a video above to start.

Idle — nothing is uploaded, everything runs on this device.

Runs fully in this browser tab via WebAssembly — nothing is uploaded. Very large files are limited by your device's memory, roughly 2 GB in a browser tab, so trim long recordings first if you hit an out-of-memory error.

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About video to gif

Video to GIF converts a video clip into an animated GIF or animated WebP, using ffmpeg's two-pass palettegen/paletteuse pipeline for sharper colours than a naive conversion, plus trim range, frame rate, scaling, dithering, looping, speed, reverse and boomerang playback.

A text caption tool with stroke and background box, an image watermark, crop/rotate and colour adjustments round it out, so a clip can go straight from footage to a shareable, captioned GIF without any other software.

Processing runs with ffmpeg.wasm inside this browser tab, so source footage never has to be uploaded just to make a short animated clip.

How to use Video to GIF

1Drop in a video and set the trim range for the part you want.
2Choose frame rate, width and palette size, or start from a preset.
3Add a caption or watermark, adjust loop/speed/boomerang in Advanced mode.
4Create the GIF or WebP and download the result.

What it does

Animated GIF or animated WebP output
Two-pass palettegen/paletteuse for higher-quality colour than single-pass GIFs
Adjustable palette size and dither algorithm (Bayer, Floyd–Steinberg, Sierra)
Trim range, frame rate, frame skipping and preview-first-frames mode
Speed change, reverse playback and one-click boomerang looping
Crop, rotate, flip and colour adjustments (brightness/contrast/saturation)
Text caption with font size, colour, position, stroke and background box
Image watermark with position, scale and opacity

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