Turn animated GIFs into QuickTime MOV videos for Keynote, iMovie and Final Cut - looped as long as you need, with transparency if you want it. Need a file for the web instead? Try GIF to MP4.
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Lower = better quality and a bigger file. ProRes ignores CRF.
Only ever made smaller - upscaling a GIF just adds blur.
Fills the see-through parts of the GIF. Pick ProRes 4444 to keep them transparent instead.
Making a looping slide background? The Keynote slide preset writes a 10 second loop, so the animation keeps going even without Keynote's Repeat setting.
A GIF carries a loop flag, so browsers play it forever.
A MOV has no such flag - QuickTime, iMovie and Final Cut play it once and stop. A 1 second reaction GIF becomes a 1 second video that is over before anyone notices.
That is why this converter can write the loop into the video. Play it a set number of times, or let it repeat until the MOV is at least 5, 10, 15, 30 or 60 seconds long. Repeated frames compress very well in H.264, so a 10x loop is only a little bigger.
| Codec | Best for | Transparency | Size |
|---|---|---|---|
| H.264 | Keynote, PowerPoint, sharing, every player | No | Small |
| HEVC (H.265) | Apple devices, smallest files | No | Smallest |
| ProRes 422 / HQ | Editing in Final Cut, Premiere, DaVinci | No | Very big |
| ProRes 4444 | Overlays, stickers and lower thirds in editors | Yes | Biggest |
Not sure? H.264 is always a safe pick. Need the same thing as MP4 for the web? Use GIF to MP4 or GIF to WebM.
ProRes 4444 is the one MOV codec with a real alpha channel.
Animated stickers, logos and emoji GIFs with see-through edges stay see-through when you drop the MOV on a timeline or a slide. GIF transparency is on or off per pixel, so edges stay crisp.
Want to remove a solid background from a GIF first? The GIF Background Remover makes it transparent, then come back here.
Drop your GIF into the box, pick a codec (H.264 fits almost everything) and press Convert to MOV.
One or two MOVs download directly, more than two come as a ZIP with a README.
A GIF loops forever, but a video plays once. Short GIFs therefore turn into very short videos.
Use Repeat - play it 2 to 10 times, or set At least 5, 10 or 30 seconds - and the loop is written into the MOV.
Yes. Pick ProRes 4444 - it stores an alpha channel, so see-through pixels stay see-through in Final Cut Pro, Premiere, Motion and Keynote.
H.264, HEVC and ProRes 422 have no transparency, so those pixels get the background colour you choose (white by default).
H.264 is small and plays everywhere. HEVC is about half the size and plays on Apple devices and recent Windows. ProRes 422 is for editing in Final Cut or Premiere and is 10-30x bigger.
CRF sets how much quality H.264 and HEVC keep. Lower is better and bigger. 20 is visually lossless for GIF content, 18 is near-perfect and 28 makes small files for chats.
ProRes ignores CRF - it uses a fixed quality profile.
H.264 and HEVC MOVs play in the Windows Media Player, Films and TV and VLC. ProRes needs VLC or an editor. For the widest support, GIF to MP4 uses the same H.264 in an MP4.
Up to 50 MB and 4096 px per GIF, 20 GIFs per batch. A MOV with repeats can be up to 3 minutes long.
It is free with no account or watermark. Each GIF is deleted right after converting and each MOV once you download it.