Cute Video to GIF Converter

Cute Video to GIF Converter is an application designed to help you turn various types of video files into GIF animations. For instance, you can use it to upload the newly created GIFs to online hosting services or to put together GIF collections with your favorite moments extracted from movies or TV shows.

Pay attention to the installer

Setting up Cute Video to GIF Converter is a fast task. Nevertheless, you should pay attention when navigating the wizard steps, because it offers to download and install third-party tools that it doesn't require for conversion. These offers can be declined, though.

Clear-cut UI with extensive file type support

It's packed in an intuitive GUI consisting of a single window that shows all options available. The program supports a wide range of video file types, such as AVI, MP4, MPEG, WMV, RMVB, VOB, M2TS and SWF, along with several audio track formats, like WMA, AC3 and MP3. Batch processing is not supported, so you can convert only one file at a time.

Configure settings to produce animated GIFs

It's possible to preview media in the main application window, select one of the numerous preset GIF sizes available or opt for automatic mode to speed up the whole process, specify the destination folder, optimize the color map, trim the video by marking the start and end position, extract frames and save them as BMP or JPG images, as well as to disable video previews during conversion jobs.

Evaluation and conclusion

It produced quality GIFs in our tests and offers support for a rich array of audio and video file extensions. However, it used a high amount of CPU and RAM during this time, and jobs were executed slowly. On top of that, it's not possible to carry on with your normal PC activity during conversion tasks, because Cute Video to GIF Converter is quite intrusive.
The bottom line is that this software utility needs more work to be considered a reliable video-to-GIF converter.