Turn any YouTube clip into a looping GIF, ready to share anywhere.
YouTube is an online video sharing platform filled with all kinds of content that can inspire the creative process. At Motionbox we make it easy for you to repurpose YouTube content as long as you have the correct permissions. If you are a business owner or creator who posts on YouTube we provide the tools to make repurposing your content easier. You can convert your YouTube videos to gif and many other formats. Within our editor you can even edit YouTube videos.
GIF stands for Graphics Interchange Format and is a bitmap image format. GIFs were initally released in 1987 on June 15th. The reason this format is so popular is because of it's portability on the internet. It supports animations and a separate palette of up to 256 colors for each frame. You may know GIFs today as the main medium for many popular online memes. While GIFs don't support audio or long video files, they might be a good format to convert a video into if you're trying to make a short GIF based meme that loops itself. You can also edit clips inside the Motionbox editor to make cool GIF based memes.
Copy the URL of the YouTube video and paste it into the converter above. We validate the link and start pulling the video automatically.
Motionbox fetches the video and converts it to gif in the cloud. You will see a preview as soon as it is ready, usually within seconds.
Hit Download to save the gif file for free, or open it in the Motionbox editor to trim it, add subtitles, and animate text on top.
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