GIF to Video

Post a reaction GIF or meme on Instagram or as a WhatsApp status, add an animation to a PowerPoint or Google Slides deck as a video, share a screen-capture GIF in a chat app that compresses GIFs badly, or shrink an animation for a website where a small autoplaying, muted MP4 loads faster than the GIF.

GIF stores every frame as a separate picture with at most 256 colours and simple compression, so even short animations can be several megabytes. Video codecs such as H.264 store only the changes between frames and are far more efficient, so the same animation as an MP4 is usually a fraction of the size and loads faster. Many social networks convert uploaded GIFs to video anyway; doing it yourself gives you control over the result and avoids upload limits on GIF size.

Each GIF frame has its own delay, and the converter keeps them, so slow and fast parts of an animation stay as they were. Very short delays of 10 milliseconds or less are played at 100 milliseconds, which is what browsers do, so the video matches what you see in a browser. Videos do not loop on their own in most apps, so choose how many times to repeat the animation. Video formats such as MP4 have no transparency; transparent parts of the GIF are filled with the background colour you choose.

GIFs up to 100 MB and 5,000 frames can be converted. Very large GIFs are scaled down so the longer side is at most 3840 pixels, and odd sizes are rounded to even numbers, which video encoders require. Decoding GIF frames uses the browser's ImageDecoder feature, available in current versions of Chrome, Edge and Firefox; other browsers show a message. To go the other way and make a GIF from a video clip, use Video to GIF.

The GIF is decoded and encoded on your device with your browser's built-in video encoder, so it never leaves your computer or phone. Conversion usually takes a few seconds. You can cancel a long conversion at any time.