Free GIF Maker

The majority of content is delivered as multimedia over the web nowadays, with GIF files sharing quite a big slice of this practice. On the bright side of things, GIF animations can be made out of a variety of file types, and Free GIF Maker helps you convert a majority of video files to this particular animation file type.

In terms of visual design, the application stores its set of features in a modern interface, which makes accommodation a walk in the park. A generous preview section is at your disposal, with a set of intuitive playback and trim controls, including output quality and general configuration options.

At its core, the application is nothing more than a video converter which delivers output under the GIF format. As such, you get to process video files, and the program supports a decent variety of formats, such as AVI, MPG, MP4, MKV, FLV, 3GP, WEBM, WMV, and a lot more. Note that only one file can be processed at a time.

You instantly get a preview of the video, with the possibility to skip through content. More than this, there’s the possibility to manually adjust the length of the GIF by adding start and end markers to the video on the spot. Selection can be inverted and deleted at the press of a button.

Paying a visit to the options menu lets you choose a custom location to save new files. There are also some output options to configure in the main window, such as loop period, playback speed, color depth, as well as size. When done the output location can be opened to view the result.

All things considered, we can state that Free GIF Maker is a neat video conversion tool which can take a great variety of video formats and turn them into GIFs. You can easily customize the length of the clip, as well as the color depth, playback speed, and whether or not to infinitely loop.