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Choose the moment, shape and size, preview the loop, and create the GIF.
GIF is still the format that plays inline everywhere — in issue trackers, chat threads, documentation and email — without a play button or a sound warning. This tool turns a chosen moment of a video into a looping GIF, letting you set the range, the crop, the output width and the frame rate, and previewing the loop before you download it.
GIF stores each frame as a separate palettised image, so file size scales with duration, dimensions and frame rate all at once. A three-second, 480-pixel-wide, 12 fps clip is usually a few hundred kilobytes; the same clip at 10 seconds, 720 pixels and 30 fps can pass 10 MB and get rejected by the very places you wanted to post it. Cut ruthlessly to the moment that matters, drop the width first, and only then reduce the frame rate.
Every frame of a GIF is limited to a palette of 256 colours. Screen recordings, line art, terminals and UI demos have flat colour and survive that beautifully. Photographic footage — skin, sky, sunsets, anything with a smooth gradient — does not, and shows banding or dithering speckle. If your source is photographic and quality matters more than inline autoplay, an MP4 or WebM will look far better at a fraction of the size, and most platforms now loop short videos silently anyway.
GIF has no cross-frame compression worth the name, so size grows with length, width and frame rate together. Shortening the clip and reducing the width are the two biggest wins; lowering the frame rate to 10–15 fps helps after that.
10–15 fps is the sweet spot for most GIFs — smooth enough for UI demos and reactions without tripling the file size. Go higher only for fast motion where stutter would be distracting.
No. The GIF format has no audio at all. If sound is essential, convert to MP4 or WebM instead — both loop silently in most feeds and look better too.
There is no format limit, but practicality bites quickly: past about ten seconds most GIFs are too big for chat apps and forums. For anything longer, use a short video file.
Because of the 256-colour palette. Photographic footage and smooth gradients cannot be represented cleanly, so the encoder dithers. Reducing the width helps a little; switching to MP4 or WebM fixes it properly.
