create gif from video

Make animated GIFs from video files, Youtube, video websites, images, pictures

Rotate GIF Add Image More Options

Play Count number of times to play the gif — 0 means loop forever

Forverse (Plays forward then backward, good for slow motion and for making looping less choppy)

Black and white / grayscale

Disable Dithering (smaller filesize, but color banding)

Use a single global color palette (reduces flashing/flickering, sometimes higher quality, a bit slower to generate)

Want to increase these limits and make smoother, higher quality gifs? Check out Imgflip Pro !

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Private (must download gif to save or share)

Create Anonymously If this is checked, your username will not be associated with this image after you create it.

Remove «imgflip.com» watermark

Rotate GIF Add Image More Options

Forverse (Plays forward then backward, good for slow motion and for making looping less choppy)

Disable Dithering (smaller filesize, but color banding)

Use a single global color palette (reduces flashing/flickering, sometimes higher quality, a bit slower to generate)

This image is NSFW (not safe for work)

Private (must download gif to save or share)

Create Anonymously If this is checked, your username will not be associated with this image after you create it.

Remove «imgflip.com» watermark

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What can I do with this gif maker?

What media sources can I make gifs from?

Can I save my GIFs online?

Why is there an «imgflip.com» watermark on my GIFs.

The Imgflip watermark helps other people see where the GIF was created. We really don’t want your GIFs to look bad though, so we made it as small as possible while still being readable, and it will not even show up on tiny GIFs. You can disable the watermark completely with a Pro account, if you really need to have watermark-free images.

Why does my GIF not animate on Facebook / other social media website?

Facebook will sometimes decide to animate gifs, and sometimes not. For best chances, make sure the width and height of your gif are both larger than 200px, since Facebook tends to not animate small gifs. Sometimes you have to click share, then exit out of the window, and then click share again. Other social media websites may have similar issues, because they can decide to handle GIFs however they want, outside of our control.

Video to GIF

Which video formats can I upload?

Some of the popular supported video formats are flv, avi, mov, mp4, mpg, mpeg, wmv, 3gp, asf, swf, ogg, h264, rm. But there are hundreds more.

How can I make my GIFs higher quality?

Make sure the v >Imgflip Pro will allow you to create even higher quality GIFs by raising the limits on various settings.

How do I put audio/sound on my GIFs?

Imgflip supports sound on gifs made from any v >Imgflip Pro account, because our server costs are higher when using audio. Once enabled, your visitors to imgflip.com/gif/. will be able to toggle audio on and off using the sound button.

Images to GIF

How do I make a GIF from images?

1. Upload images. Click the upload button and select as many images as you want. To select multiple images you can use SHIFT, CMD, or CTRL, or tap and hold if using a mobile device. You can always add more later!
2. Arrange images. Drag and drop the images you selected until you get them ordered correctly. The Auto Arrange button will sort your images alphabetically (click twice for reverse order).
3. Adjust options. Adjust the Delay until the speed of your GIF looks normal. Remember to check «private» if you’re not going to share it online.
4. Generate. After making your gif, you can download it and share the link with friends. If you’re logged in, your gif will be stored on your images page.

What can I do with this gif maker?

You can make slideshows from photos you’ve taken, create custom animations from your own creative drawings or clipart, or stitch together frames that you’ve extracted from a video. Endless possibilities! Our image-to-gif maker allows you to make unlimited high quality animated gifs online for free, with lots of customization options, and with no limit on the number of images.

Which image formats can I upload?

The gif maker currently supports PNG, JPEG, GIF, and any other image formats supported by your web browser, often including SVG, WebP, TIFF, BMP, and more.

Something not working? Do you have suggestions to make the gif maker better? send feedback!

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Free	Pro
Ability to remove «imgflip.com» watermark from all images you create	No	Yes
Disable all advertisements on imgflip.com (yay faster pageloads!)	No	Yes. Ads won’t be shown to users viewing your images either.
Add text and images to GIF	1 text and 1 image	Unlimited
Crop, Rotate, Reverse, Forverse✨, Slow Mo, Fast Mo, or Flip your GIF	Yes	Yes
Video to GIF
Max frames per GIF	80	400 (better framerate, smoother animation)
Max Dimensions	360×360 (not HD)	Unlimited (HD and beyond!)
Max Total Resolution (Frames × Width × Height)	6M	60M
Max Video Segment Length	20 Seconds	80 Seconds
Sound on GIFs	No	Yes (when viewed on imgflip.com)
Images to GIF
Max frames per GIF	Unlimited	Unlimited
Max Dimensions	500×500 (not HD)	Unlimited (HD and beyond!)
Max GIF size you can store on Imgflip	4MB	32MB

Q: I don’t like subscriptions. Can I just buy one month?

A: Of course! Just go cancel your subscription right after you buy it. Your account will remain Pro until the subscription period has ended.

Output GIF:

(Please be patient, video conversion may take a while, especially for long gifs with high frame rate)

Upload and convert video to GIF

With this online video converter you can upload your mp4, avi, WebM, flv, wmv and many other popular types of video and rich media files to turn them into high quality animated GIFs. Source video file can be uploaded from your computer or smartphone or fetched from another server by URL.

After upload, you can select the part of the video you want to cut, entering start and end time. If nothing is selected, the converter will make a GIF from first five seconds of the video clip. If you want to change the dimensions of the GIF or crop out only part of the video, you can use our resize and crop tools on the GIF after finishing the conversion.

We offer MP4 to GIF, WebM to GIF, AVI to GIF, MOV to GIF, FLV to GIF as well as 3GP, OGV, M4V, ASF and other format converters. It’s possible to convert transparent video (with alpha channel) to transparent GIF as well. It can also convert some SWF (flash) files, but currently not all of them.

• Frame rate (fps ) is the amount of frames shown each second. Higher frame rate gives smoother and more cinematic animation thus increasing perceived quality, but greatly increases file size. Choose accordingly for your needs.
• To keep the file size and processing time reasonable, we limit maximum length of the part you can select for conversion (duration) depending on selected frame rate. If you want to create longer GIFs, you have to select lower fps. Maximum length at 5 fps is 60 seconds, at 10 fps it’s lowered to 30 seconds and so on.
• Pause the video and click «Use current video position» to get an accurate start and end time for your GIF.
• Use our crop, resize and optimization tools below the output image, to adjust the dimensions and file size.

If you are looking for a tool to perform conversion the other way around (GIF to Video), give our GIF to MP4 or GIF to WebM converter a try.
Or if you want to make a GIF from multiple images, use our GIF maker instead.

Short, punchy, and sometimes hilarious, GIFs are a popular and fun way to communicate on the internet. But how do you make one? In this article and video, we’ll walk you through making a GIF from a video.

GIFs are usually short scenes from popular TV shows and movies, turned into short video snippets.

Feeling sad? There’s a GIF for that.

Had an amazing day at work? GIFs have got you covered!

GIFs are an integral part of communicating on social media. Twitter and Reddit users have been using them effectively for years. Even Facebook made them an official part of the platform. Use GIFs for just about anything.

Great custom GIFs start with great custom videos

In this post, we’re going to show you how to make GIF files from a video, but before we start, we want to underscore that you need a great video to make a great GIF. At Biteable, we have thousands of pieces of animated and live-action content for you to choose from.

Start with a template, like one of these, then customize it in minutes. After that, get GIFing.

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Why use a GIF instead of a video?

GIFs are short, they rarely last over 5 seconds, and they usually have small file sizes too, so they don’t prevent web pages from loading quickly. And they’re usually charged with emotion — scenes that become GIFs generally express emotions in a big, recognizable way.

There’s no mistaking this scene for anything other than excitement. GIFs tap into the shared stories we consume. Sharing a scene from a specific show or movie brings up emotions tied to that movie and add power to your point. And, for those of us who watch way too much TV, they instantly connect us to other pop culture fanatics.

If you want to make an instant emotional connection with your audience, why not post a GIF?

How to turn video into GIF

While there are a lot of ready-made GIFs available on platforms like Giphy, making your own is pretty painless. Let’s take a look at some different options, each with different levels of sophistication. You can use a Mac, PC, or mobile device to use a GIF creator.

Using Giphy

Giphy is a super quick and easy to use gif maker. While it’s not particularly sophisticated, it took us less than 3 minutes to create this GIF, including sourcing the YouTube clip. No prizes for guessing what we watched this weekend…

1. Select “Create” in the top right hand corner.

You can make a GIF using the video URL from a video hosting platform like YouTube or Vimeo, or by uploading your own video file.

2. Make your GIF

Enter the start time for your GIF and chose the duration. You can also add tags and captions. When you’re ready, scroll to the bottom and select “Create GIF.”

3. Share your GIF

Making a GIF with Giphy is incredibly simple and quick. You don’t even need to make an account. Find a video on YouTube or upload one directly to Giphy, set the start time and duration, and you’re good to go!

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Make a GIF

If you’re looking for a slightly more sophisticated, but equally quick GIF creator, Make a GIF could be the one for you. Sign in through your Twitter or Facebook account, or create a brand new one. You can use Make a GIF to create high quality animated GIFs from:

• Pictures
• YouTube videos
• Facebook videos
• A video you upload
• Webcam

Let’s go through the steps of creating a GIF through a YouTube video.

1. Log into your Make a GIF account and select “YouTube to GIF.”

2. Enter the YouTube URL

3. From there, you’ll be taken to the GIF creation page.

Select the start time for your GIF by dragging the cursor to the right time. Then, chose the length by dragging the “GIF Length” cursor. Your GIF can be up to 10 seconds long.

You can add tags, choose a category, and add stickers. You can also choose to enable audio. If you upgrade to the premium version, you can make HD GIFs and delete the watermark, but the free version is fun, easy to use, and good enough to help you get started.

This is the GIF I ended up with after less than 5 minutes. And, in my defense, most of that time was spent figuring out what clip to use.

Using Photoshop

To get the greatest control over your GIF creation, Photoshop is the clear winner. If you’re using Photoshop, we’re going to assume you’re pretty tech-savvy, and will just give you the basic version of how it’s done.

1. Open Photoshop (we’re using Photoshop CC 2017).

2. Go to File → Import → Video Frames to Layers.

3. In the dialogue box, you can change the settings to select the part of the video you want to use (use the sliders underneath the thumbnail to set the range of frames), or you can lower the frame rate to conserve file size. Make sure the ‘Make Frame Animation’ box is checked, and hit ‘OK.’

4. Go to File → Export → Save for Web (Legacy). (File → Save for Web in previous versions.)

5. So many options! You can limit the file size here by playing with the number of colors, or the Image Size options, but if you’re lazy and don’t mind how big your GIF is, just hit save, and you’re done. Easy.

Start with Biteable

See, making a GIF is easy. Making a great video (to turn into a GIF) is now easy too, thanks to Biteable. Start now and keep it forever.

Find the perfect starting point in our huge template library.