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Cut out the few seconds worth keeping and get a GIF for a chat thread. The palette and compression are calculated on your own device.
GIF is an old format with no real motion compression: every frame stores a whole picture. That's why a ten-second video of 5 MB can become a 30 MB GIF, and why the three settings that matter are length, size and frame rate — in that order.
This maker includes its own encoder rather than sending your clip anywhere. It samples colours across every frame to build one shared palette, applies ordered dithering to hide banding, and marks pixels that barely change between frames as transparent so a static background costs almost nothing after the first frame. That last trick is why a talking head compresses far better here than a fast camera pan.
Two to six seconds at 360 px and 12 fps is the sweet spot for chat apps. If you need longer, drop to 8 fps and 240 px and it stays manageable.
Because GIF stores full frames. Shorter, smaller and fewer frames are the three levers. If the file has to stay small, trim harder before anything else.
The GIF format has nowhere to put audio. If sound matters, keep it as a video and use the compressor instead.
A GIF holds at most 256 colours, so gradients and skin tones get approximated. Leave dithering on, which scatters the error across neighbouring pixels and hides most of it.