It is a Graphics Interchange Format file. GIFs can be moving or animated, but not always. It is also good for simple graphics, with not too much detail. They are common on the World Wide Web.
It's a picture file.
Graphics Interchange Format (GIF)
an image file
.gif is an image file, suitable for charts and simple graphcs that do not require a large colour palette.
.gif is a picture format they can be either a animated picture or a still
For Vector it's .png .tif/.tiff .gif For Bitmap it's .bmp .jpg/.jpeg .gif
GIF image is a Graphics Interchangable Format. The interchangeable part of it's name means you can have a series of images "storyboard" shown as a mini movie in a .GIF image file.
Open the File Explorer or Finder application on your computer. Navigate to the folder or location where you want to search for GIF files. In the search box, type *.gif and press Enter. This will show you all the files that have the .gif extension in that folder or location.
GIF and PNG 8 file formats.
Any image that moves, or has a repeated action would end with '.GIF' or the movement would not be possible.
Change the .gif file to a .mov file
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There is only one file that the name ends with GIF. The only file that ends with GIF is saving a picture.
A .gif file is a picture. It is not as compressed as a .jpg file so it appears larger than normal.
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A .GIF is a file and is saved like any other file.
The extension is actually immaterial. It merely serves to give the operating system a hint as to the file's content, allowing the file to be associated with a particular application, such as a GIF file viewer or an image editor application. In order to save a GIF file, you must first re-encode the image (assuming it is not already in GIF format), and save the output to a file with a GIF extension.
.gif is a file format. Most commonly .gif files are animations or images with a short 5-10 second effect. Non-animation image file formats are: .Jpeg and .PNG.