Turn an animated GIF into a WebM video file. Video codecs like VP9 compress motion much more efficiently than GIF's frame-by-frame approach, often cutting file size by 80% or more.
Useful when you want to embed an animation on a webpage but need to keep bandwidth low, or when a platform accepts video but not GIF. The output plays in all modern browsers and can be further converted to MP4 with tools like FFmpeg.
Video codecs compress motion far more efficiently than GIF. A WebM file is often 80–90% smaller than the equivalent GIF with no visible quality loss.
WebM with VP9 or VP8 codec, depending on your browser's support. It plays natively in Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and Safari.
This tool outputs WebM. For MP4, download the WebM and convert it with the [Video Converter](/video/convert) or a desktop tool like FFmpeg.
The video player has a loop toggle, and the output file can loop in HTML video tags. Whether it auto-loops depends on the player or platform where you use it.