Upload a MP4 file and download a GIF. Free, no account, no watermark, and nothing is kept on our server.
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Making a short silent loop for a chat, a forum or a page where video is blocked.
MP4 is the format the world settled on. It is a container rather than a codec, almost always holding H.264 video and AAC audio, and there is no device, browser, editor or social platform that refuses it. If you are not sure what to convert something to, the answer is MP4.
An animated GIF is a flipbook of images limited to 256 colours, with no sound and no compression worth the name. A ten-second clip can easily become a bigger file than the video it came from. It exists because it plays automatically everywhere, including where video is blocked.
| MP4 | GIF | |
|---|---|---|
| Released | 2003 | 1987 |
| Developed by | MPEG | CompuServe |
| Type | Container | Animated image |
| Usual codecs | H.264 or H.265 with AAC | None, 256 colours |
| File size | Small for the quality | Often larger than the video |
| Best suited to | Everything, honestly | Short silent loops |
| Support | Universal | Universal |
Three things happen at once. Sound is removed entirely, colour drops to 256 shades, and the file usually ends up larger than the video it came from. Keep the clip short - a few seconds - or the result becomes unusable.
Video takes real time. A short clip finishes in under a minute, while a full-length film can take considerably longer, because every frame has to be decoded and encoded again. Uploading a large file is usually the slowest part of all.
Your file is uploaded to our server because the conversion runs there. A cleanup task runs every hour and deletes anything older than an hour, so nothing you upload survives more than about two hours. We do not open your files, we do not keep copies, and no account is needed to use the converter.