Video to GIF
Pick the clip, the frame rate and the width, then download the GIF. Conversion uses a palette generated from the video itself, in two passes — that is what separates a GIF with decent colour from one with that dirty, banded look.
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How it works
The first pass runs palettegen over the clip already resized and at the final rate, producing a 256-colour palette chosen from the colours that actually appear. The second applies it with paletteuse. Doing it in one pass with the default palette is what causes the banding typical of a bad GIF. A GIF always re-encodes, making this the slowest operation on the site — short clips are the reasonable use.
- Two-pass optimised palette with dithering, instead of the generic 256-colour palette
- Frame rate and width controls, with proportional height
- Resizing with the lanczos filter, which preserves more detail than the default
- Preview of the final GIF and direct download