Convert Video to GIF

Make a GIF from any video clip

Reaction GIFs, product demos, tutorial snippets, funny moments from your phone – GIFs play automatically and loop everywhere, from chat apps to documentation and e-mail. Fileopia's Video to GIF converter turns a part of any MP4, MOV, WebM or MKV video into an animated GIF. Choose where it starts and how long it lasts, set the frame rate and width, speed it up or slow it down, make it loop forever, play once or bounce back and forth like a boomerang, and add a caption in classic meme style.

It all happens in your browser, so the video is not uploaded – no waiting for a 200 MB upload, no file size cap and no watermark.

Features

• Start time and length (0.5–30 seconds).
• Frame rate: 5, 10, 15, 20 or 25 fps.
• Width: 240, 320, 480, 640, 800 px or original (up to 1280).
• Speed: 0.5× slow motion, 1×, 1.5×, 2× or 4×.
• Loop: forever, play once, or boomerang (forward then backward).
• Caption: white text with a black outline, top or bottom.
• Optimised palette per frame for good colours.
• Size shown after creation, with a preview.

How to convert a video to GIF

• Drop the video onto the page.
• Enter the start time (e.g. 0:12) and length in seconds.
• Choose frame rate, width, speed and loop style.
• Optionally type a caption.
• Click Create GIF, check the preview and download.

Keeping GIFs small

GIF is an old format: it stores every frame as an image with up to 256 colours and compresses it relatively poorly. File size grows with width × height × number of frames. A 5-second clip at 480 px and 10 fps is usually 1–4 MB; the same clip at 800 px and 25 fps can exceed 20 MB.

If the GIF is still too large, shorten it, reduce the width, or lower the frame rate. You can also compress it afterwards with Compress GIF.

Speed, loops and boomerangs

Speeding a clip up (2× or 4×) lets you show a longer action – a cooking step, a drawing, a software workflow – in a short GIF. Slowing it down (0.5×) makes fast moments dramatic. Boomerang mode plays the frames forward and then backward, producing the seamless back-and-forth loop popular on social media; it works best with short clips of 1–3 seconds. 'Play once' is useful in presentations and documentation where a looping animation would distract.

Captions

Type up to 80 characters and choose top or bottom. The text is drawn in bold white with a black outline so it stays readable on any background, and scales with the GIF width. Keep captions short – a few words read better in a looping animation than a sentence.

GIF or video?

GIFs are universally supported and autoplay everywhere, but a short MP4 is often ten times smaller at better quality. Many social networks actually convert uploaded GIFs to video. Use GIF when you need guaranteed autoplay without controls – in e-mail, chat, GitHub READMEs, wikis and documentation. Use MP4 for longer clips, or convert back with GIF to MP4.

Privacy

Every step happens inside your browser tab. The file is read from your disk, decoded and re-encoded on your own device using the browser's built-in media engine (WebCodecs and Web Audio) and WebAssembly, and the result goes straight to your downloads folder. Nothing is uploaded, nothing is stored on a server and there is no queue – so family videos, interviews, voice memos, meetings and unreleased content never leave your computer or phone. Large files are not slowed down by your upload speed either: a 1 GB video starts processing instantly instead of after a ten-minute upload.

Related tools

• Compress GIF – make GIFs smaller.
• GIF to MP4 – convert GIF back to video.
• Trim Video – cut a clip first.
• Compress Video – shrink videos.
• MP4 to MP3 – extract the audio.