An animated GIF that's 8 MB is usually a 600 KB H.264 file underneath. Convert in your browser, preserve every frame and timing, ship a tenth of the bytes.
MP4 H.264 routinely produces 10–15× smaller files at identical visual quality. That's real money on a CDN bill and real speed on a phone.
GIF is 256 colors per frame. MP4 is 16M. Photographs, gradients and animated UI in GIF look posterized; in MP4 they look right.
Every modern browser plays H.264 on the GPU. GIFs decode on the CPU, frame by frame, often dropping frames on lower-end devices.
The standalone tool is in active development. Until it lands, the Playground's GIF→MP4 example handles the conversion with the same engine — same output, same performance. Drop a GIF in, get an MP4 out.
We'll move it here when the dedicated UI is polished enough to deserve its own page. Subscribe to the changelog to know when.
The converter runs FFmpeg.wasm in a web worker. Your file never leaves the browser — there's no upload, no queue, no server. For multi-gigabyte source files, drop to the CLI:
hyperframes convert in.gif --to mp4 --out out.mp4
Same engine, ready today. Subscribe to the changelog to know when the standalone tool ships.