Turn a video into a GIF
Make a looping GIF out of a few seconds of video.
Because this runs in your browser, the limit is your own memory rather than an upload cap. Files up to a few hundred megabytes are comfortable on a normal laptop; a multi-gigabyte recording is better trimmed first.
How this one works
GIFs only hold 256 colours, so a good one is made in two passes: the first works out which 256 colours this particular clip needs, the second uses them. Doing it in one pass with a generic palette is why most GIF converters produce banded, muddy output.
Where the file goes
Nowhere. The video is read by the page and processed by a copy of ffmpeg compiled to WebAssembly, running inside this tab on your own machine. There is no server in the path, which is also why there is no size limit and no queue — and why a very long file depends on how much memory your computer has rather than on how busy we are.
What it costs
Nothing, and there is no catch to find later: no watermark, no sign-in before the download, no cap on how many times you can use it. It costs us nothing per use, because your computer did the work.
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That is what Cutdown is for. It finds the moments worth posting, ranks them by predicted retention, and hands them over already vertical and captioned.
Try it on a video