How to Download YouTube Videos to GIF, MP4 on Mac and Windows?

Overview

When users want to watch a video, YouTube comes to users mind at the first thought. Indeed, YouTube hosts lots of different types of videos and attracts many users with various ages and areas of work. However, many users have no time to watch the YouTube video from the very beginning to the end and instead, these users prefer to watch the GIF format of the corresponding YouTube video to get the summarized contents of the entire YouTube video. Speaking of converting YouTube videos to GIF, another famous graphics editor - Photoshop will also be the first choice for many users, but the condition is that you must download the YouTube video and know how to use Photoshop. Unfortunately, many users do not know how to download YouTube videos and let alone using the complex Photoshop to convert the YouTube video to GIF.

Do not feel frustrated and the following article just introduces a professional YouTube to GIF downloader and converter to help users to easily directly download and convert YouTube videos to animated GIF.

YouTube to GIF Downloader and Converter - Allavsoft

• Allavsoft is just the professional YouTube to GIF downloader and converter with which any YouTube video will be easily downloaded and directly converted to animated GIF format.
• Actually, not only YouTube video that Allavsoft can download and convert to GIF, but also the Facebook video, Vimeo video, Dailymotion video, Yahoo video and any other video from other video websites.
• Also, Allavsoft can not only download YouTube videos and other videos to animated GIF format, but also can download these videos to MP4, AVI, MOV, FLV, WMV, MKV, MP3, AAC, WAV, WMA, FLAC, etc.
• More surprisingly is that Allavsoft can batch download YouTube videos and other videos at once.
• Also you will never get ad or virus downloaded to your computer or hard drive.
• If you care more about the downloading speed and the downloaded video quality, you are right to choose Allavsoft, since Allavsoft can download your needed YouTube video at the fastest downloading speed and without any quality loss.

Guide on Downloading and Converting YouTube Video to GIF

Follow the guide below to easily download any YouTube video and convert it to animated GIF.

Make Preparation: Free download YouTube to GIF Downloader and Converter

Free download the professional YouTube to GIF Downloader and Converter - Allavsoft ( for Windows , for Mac) , install and then launch it, the following interface will pop up.

Step 1 Import YouTube Video URL

Go to YouTube, find any YouTube video, like the sports video, the news video, etc that you want to download. Copy this YouTube video URL and paste it to Allavsoft. You can also drag and drop the YouTube video URL to Allavsoft.

Step 2 Set final output format

Click the "Automatically Convert to" button to set animated GIF as your final output format from Picture and Animation category. If not, Allavsoft will automatically save the original YouTube video format as your final output format.

Step 3 Download YouTube to GIF

Click "Download" button to easily download your wanted YouTube video to animated GIF format.