Free tools / Video to GIF
Make a shareable GIF from any clip — for chats, docs, or posts where video won't embed. Colors are built with a proper two-pass palette, so it looks clean, not dithered to death. Converts up to the first 15 seconds (GIFs get huge fast).
Drop in a video — a short clip works best.
The first 15 seconds convert with an optimized color palette.
Download a GIF that plays everywhere, even where video can't.
GIF is a wildly inefficient format — 15 seconds is already several megabytes. For anything longer, share the MP4 instead (it'll be smaller AND sharper).
We generate a custom 256-color palette from your actual footage (a two-pass encode) instead of using a generic palette — that's the difference between clean gradients and speckled noise.
480px wide at 12 frames per second — the sweet spot for chats and embeds. Expect a few MB for a few seconds of footage.
Drop one long video into Vairal and AI finds the most viral moments, cuts each into a captioned 9:16 short, and polishes it — in 40 languages, free to start.
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