---
title: GIFs
description: GIFs are drawn from the rendered movie, with still stretches merged into one frame.
url: https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/reel/outputs/gifs
---

# GIFs
```
Output demo.gif
Set GifWidth 720
Set GifFrameRate 12
Set GifColors 128
```


| Setting                 | Default |                                                                                                |
|-------------------------|---------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| `Set GifWidth <pixels>` | 800     | 100 to 4000, never wider than the video.                                                       |
| `Set GifFrameRate <n>`  | 15      | Frames a second, 1 to 50.                                                                      |
| `Set GifColors <n>`     | 256     | 2 to 256. One palette serves every frame, so colours don't flicker. Fewer make a smaller file. |

A GIF is drawn from the same lossless render as the movies, overlays included, and loops forever. A demo is mostly
still, so frames that look the same as the one before are merged into one longer frame: on a typical demo about a
third of the sampled frames are kept. Frame times add up exactly to the movie's length.
A GIF has no sound. [Subtitles](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/reel/demos/narration) are how narration reaches one.