
If you want to add music to your GIF, you'll need to make it an MP4. Note that GIFs files do not have any audio, so the output will be muted. To make sure that the GIF comes out at a reasonable frame rate, I recommend clipping your video to <10 seconds before converting to a GIF. Once your GIF is finished, click the dropdown arrow by the "Export" button to save it as a GIF. I slowed down my GIF to make it appear in slowmo. You can make other edits, like changing the speed of the video, cropping, or adding a text overlay. Once you’ve trimmed your video, preview the GIF to see what the output will look like. If your segment is more than 10 seconds long, your GIF may come out pixelated or with low resolution. It’s possible to convert any length of video into a GIF, but you should aim to convert a clip that is less than 10 seconds long. I suggest that you seek through the video to find the part you want and use the "Split" button to cut the parts off of the beginning and end. Use the sliders on the end to cut out the section you want to convert to a GIF. Once your video loads in the Studio editor, you will see the full video layer appear in the timeline. Step 2: Convert a section of video to GIF You can also choose to upload an MP4 file, MOV file, or a video taken on your phone. Note that Kapwing also accepts other types of URLs like links from Vimeo, Google Drive, TikTok, Twitter, Instagram, and more. In this example, I’m converting a scene from a David Dobrik vlog, so I copied and pasted this URL into Kapwing. Kapwing supports all videos shorter than 30 mins and smaller than 500 MB, and there's no watermark. Open Kapwing’s Convert Video tool and paste the URL of your YouTube video that you want to convert to GIF. Here is a step by step tutorial: Step 1: Paste URL to YouTube Video To make a GIF from a YouTube video, use Kapwing’s Convert Video tool. It’s free, and you don’t need to install any app or software. It works on any computer, phone or tablet.

In this post, I’ll describe to you the fastest way to make a GIF from a YouTube video. But how do you convert an exact segment of a YouTube video a GIF? GIFs are ideal for Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, iMessage, email, Twitter, and Docs.
