

Photoshop is the defacto tool for image editing and processing, and it has a lot of tools for making sophisticated animated GIFs, including importing a video, editing the frames from the video, and outputting a GIF. The first option, if you can’t use a free cloud-based tool like, is the Photoshop suite.

But if not, is the simplest way to get a GIF from a video. My guess is uploading to a free server in the cloud will violate any NDA or security you have in place. The downside, if you have proprietary information you are letting someone else see it. Not only does it covert quickly, but it also lets you crop, resize, add effects, change the speed, add text, and overlay. is free (lots of advertising) but has a lot of options. It is not as nice as the video, but it does not need a player.
