Converting MOV to GIF extracts frames from a QuickTime video and encodes them as a looping animated GIF, creating a shareable clip that plays without video software. MOV is Apple's QuickTime container that can hold ProRes, H.264, or HEVC video tracks; GIF stores indexed-colour animation frames with a maximum palette of 256 colours per frame. The conversion decodes each video frame at the target frame rate (10-15 fps is standard for GIF), quantises the RGB colours to a 256-entry palette using a dithering algorithm to reduce banding, and concatenates the frames. Audio tracks are discarded. GIF files grow quickly with duration — a 5-second clip at 15 fps produces 75 frames — so trimming to the essential segment before conversion keeps file size manageable. 1converter runs this conversion via FFmpeg, applying the two-pass palette optimisation workflow for the best colour reproduction within the GIF format's constraints.