I want to turn a video clip into a GIF
Grab a few seconds of a video as a looping GIF for a chat, a doc or a reaction. No upload needed.
To make a GIF from a video, use a video-to-GIF tool: trim to the moment you want and it produces a looping GIF. Our tool runs in your browser, so the clip is never uploaded. Keep it short (a few seconds) and modestly sized, GIFs balloon fast, so trimming and a smaller resolution keep the file shareable.
4 tools for this
Each one is free, private and runs in your browser. No sign-up, no watermark.
Video to GIF
Turn a video into a high-quality animated GIF right in your browser. Pick a start, duration, frame rate and width, get a two-pass palette for clean color, then preview and download. Nothing is uploaded.
Video Trimmer
Cut and trim video online in your browser, drag a visual timeline to set exact start and end points, preview the selection, and download the clip. No uploads, no account, no watermark.
Video Compressor
Compress video in your browser with FFmpeg, shrink MP4, MOV, WebM and MKV files with a simple quality slider, see the exact bytes and percentage saved next to a live preview, then download. Nothing is uploaded.
Video Resizer
Resize video resolution in your browser with FFmpeg: scale MP4, MOV, WebM and MKV to 1080p, 720p, 480p or a custom width and height, lock the aspect ratio or fit-and-pad, then download. Nothing is uploaded.
How to fix it
Follow these steps and you'll have it sorted in a couple of minutes.
- 1
Open the Video to GIF tool
Drop your clip in, it's processed in your browser, never uploaded.
- 2
Trim to the moment
GIFs are best kept short. Cut to the two-to-four seconds that matter with the trimmer.
- 3
Set the size
Lower the resolution or frame rate to keep the GIF small enough to share easily.
- 4
Export the GIF
Create the looping GIF and download it. Compress the source first if the clip is large.
- Converting a long clip: GIFs are huge per second, so a 20-second GIF can be enormous. Trim tight.
- Keeping full HD resolution when a smaller GIF looks fine in chats and loads far faster.
- Using a GIF where a short muted video would be smaller and smoother. GIFs suit tiny, simple loops.
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Ran into one of these too? Here's the fix.
- My video is too large to send or uploadPhone videos get huge fast. Compress, resize or trim to fit an email or upload limit without a cloud service.
- My video won't play (MOV, AVI, MKV)iPhone MOV that won't open on Windows? An AVI your editor rejects? Convert it to MP4, the universal format.
- I want to get the audio (MP3) out of a videoKeep only the sound (a lecture, a song, a podcast segment) as a clean MP3 you can play anywhere.
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