Video to GIF — convert MP4/WebM/MOV clips into shareable animations

Six seconds, 72 frames: building a GIF that loops clean

The Video to GIF converter turns a clip into an animated GIF using a two-pass palette built from your actual footage, at 10, 12 or 15 fps and 320 to 640 pixels wide. Do the frame math before you convert: a 6-second reaction clip at 12 fps becomes 72 frames, each one mapped through a 256-color palette tuned to that clip's real colors — skin tones and gradients stay smooth instead of banding. Keep 480 pixels for chat apps, widen to 640 for a blog embed. At the 20-second cap you'd be rendering 240 frames, which is exactly why that cap exists.

Trim first, convert second. The tool starts from the beginning of whatever you feed it, so if the good moment shows up at 0:25, cut the clip beforehand — you'll get a smaller, sharper GIF and skip the wasted frames. Frame count also drives size: every extra frame is a full image to store, so doubling the fps roughly doubles the file. When a GIF comes out heavy, drop fps before you drop width, because motion reads better than sharpness at small sizes.