GIF to video
Load an animated GIF and get a real video file back — smaller, sharper and accepted everywhere a GIF is not. Everything runs on your own device; your file never leaves your computer.
How GIF to video works
A GIF is a stack of pictures with a delay behind each one. This tool reads those frames and their timing out of the file, paints them onto a canvas at a steady 30 frames per second and records the result with your browser's own video encoder — so nothing is uploaded and there is no queue. Because a video has no transparency, the see-through parts of the GIF get a colour you choose; white is the safe default. The result is usually a fraction of the size of the GIF at better quality, which is exactly why chat apps and social networks quietly convert every GIF to video anyway.
Why would I turn a GIF into a video at all?
Because almost nothing plays GIFs any more. WhatsApp, Instagram, TikTok and X all convert an uploaded GIF into a video before anyone sees it, and a GIF is typically several times larger than the same clip as MP4 because the format cannot compress motion. Converting it yourself means you control the size and the quality instead of leaving it to somebody else's encoder — and you can drop the result straight into a video editor, which is not possible with a GIF.
My GIF is transparent — what happens to that?
Video has no alpha channel, full stop: there is no video format in normal use that can carry transparency. So the transparent parts are filled with the colour you pick above (white by default). Pick the colour of the page or the chat background it will end up on and nobody will notice the difference. If you truly need transparency, a GIF or a PNG sequence is the only way, and then this is not the tool for you.
Does the video get sound?
No — a GIF has no audio track. That is not a shortcut on our side but the format itself: GIF never had sound. If you want music or a voice over the result, run the video through the video studio afterwards and add the audio there.
Why does converting take as long as the animation?
The tool plays the animation through once and records it in real time, which is what lets it run on any device without uploading anything. A three-second GIF takes about three seconds; setting the repeat count to 5 makes it five times as long, in the file and in the wait. You can leave the tab in the background while it runs.
It says my GIF is too large — now what?
Unpacking a GIF means holding every frame in memory at once, so a very long or very high-resolution animation would take the browser tab down. Rather than freeze on you, the tool refuses. Run the GIF through the GIF maker or an image compressor first to bring the size or the number of frames down, then convert.
