MP4 to GIF
A palette built from your own footage, so the GIF does not come out muddy.
Your file
Drop a file here, or click to choose
It stays on this device. Nothing is sent anywhere.
Settings
Keep it short
GIF stores nearly every frame in full, so length costs more than anything else. Five seconds at 480 px and 15 fps usually lands between 2 and 5 MB, which is fine for a chat or a README. Ten seconds at 800 px and 24 fps can easily pass 30 MB.
Set the start and end times here rather than trimming first, the conversion only reads the range you ask for.
Common questions
Why does my GIF look grainy?
That is dithering, which fakes extra colours out of 256. Switch to Sierra for smoother gradients, at a larger file size.
Can I get a transparent background?
Not from video. There is no alpha channel in the source to keep.