GIF to Video turns a bloated animated image into a real video file: with the same picture, an H.264 MP4 relies on inter-frame compression and is usually one tenth to one fifth of the GIF's size, and it can be uploaded to platforms that reject GIFs or used as footage in an editor. It lives on the “More” tab of the audio/video workbench and accepts GIF, APNG and animated WebP.

There are two targets. MP4 uses H.264 at CRF 20 with yuv420p, plus +faststart so a web page can start playing while it downloads. WebM uses VP9 at CRF 32 — smaller, but far slower to encode. Animated images often have odd dimensions, so the tool applies scale=trunc(iw/2)*2 to round them down to even numbers (401×301 becomes 400×300); H.264 cannot encode odd sizes. The output carries no audio track and no longer loops forever — the video plays once, and looping is up to the player.

1. 01Add the animated imagedrag a GIF, APNG or animated WebP into the audio/video workbench, select it and switch to the “More” tab.
2. 02Find the “GIF to video” sectionit only appears for animated files, never for static PNG or JPG.
3. 03Click “Convert to MP4” or “Convert to WebM”the job joins the queue, and the animation is decoded into frames before encoding.
4. 04Downloadyou get <original name>.mp4 or <original name>.webm — the same name as the source with only the extension changed.

Transparency is lost

the video uses the yuv420p pixel format, so the animation's alpha channel is dropped and transparent areas generally render as black.

No loop, no sound

the video carries no loop flag and stops after one pass; there is no audio track (the animated image never had one).

Fixed parameters

MP4 is locked to CRF 20 and WebM to CRF 32; resolution, frame rate and quality cannot be adjusted. To go smaller still, take the output into “Video Compress”.

Frame timing

each GIF frame may hold for a different duration, which a constant-frame-rate video approximates, so the rhythm of individual frames can shift slightly.

What it does not do

it does not turn video back into GIF (use “Video to GIF”), does not caption, retime or split GIFs (use “GIF Toolbox”), and does not assemble still images into a video.

The animation is decoded and encoded into video by ffmpeg.wasm locally in the browser and is never uploaded; the first use downloads about 31 MB of engine from a CDN (the site's asset domain or jsDelivr), and that request contains none of your files.