Animated WebP does what GIF does, playing and looping by itself, but with full colour and far better compression. A clip from a video usually becomes much smaller as animated WebP than as GIF, without GIF's colour banding and dithering dots.
How to make an animated WebP from a video
- Upload the video (MP4, MOV, MKV, WebM and more; up to 2 GB).
- Enter the start and the length (up to 60 seconds).
- Save as: Animated WebP and 15 fps at 480 pixels are already set; adjust them if needed.
- Choose the quality: Balanced for most clips, High for detailed pictures, Small file for the smallest result.
- Download the WebP.
Where animated WebP works
Current web browsers show animated WebP in an <img> tag just like a GIF, and many apps and
sites accept it. Some older software and some upload forms still only take GIF; in that case
choose GIF instead.
What you can adjust
- Area: draw the part of the picture to keep, or pick a shape such as square.
- Width: 240 to 1080 pixels, or the video's own width up to 1,280. Nothing is enlarged.
- Frame rate: 5 to 30 fps, never more than the video has.
- Loop: forever, once, or a set number of times.
Good to know
- Animated WebP is lossy here (like a video), which is what makes it small; High quality keeps fine detail such as text in screen recordings.
- Transparency isn't used: video frames are opaque.
- Upright phone videos stay upright; there is no sound.
More about what this tool reads and writes: Video to GIF.