Free online TIFF to WEBM converter

When a website, presentation, or editing workflow accepts video but not TIFF images, converting a TIFF creates a timed clip that can be played or placed on a video timeline. Because TIFF is usually a still image and WEBM is a video container, the conversion must assign the image a display duration.

What the TIFF format is

TIFF is a raster image format commonly used for scans, print production, and image archiving. Scanners and programs such as Adobe Photoshop and GIMP can create TIFF files; TIFFs also commonly arrive from document and photography workflows. The format can preserve high bit depth and lossless image data, and some TIFF files contain multiple pages or images.

What the WEBM format is

WEBM is a container for web video, commonly using VP8 or VP9 video codecs and optionally Opus or Vorbis audio. Browsers and media players often support it, making it useful for web playback and video editing workflows that accept WEBM. Converting a still TIFF produces video frames for a chosen duration; it does not turn the image into an animated sequence.

How to convert TIFF to WEBM

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1. Upload the TIFF file or files to the converter on this page. Multiple files can be converted in a batch; the page shows the per-file size limit.
2. Set show each picture for to choose how long each picture appears, then start the conversion.
3. Download the converted WEBM file or files when processing is complete.

Offline with desktop software

FFmpeg is free and open-source, and runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux. To make a five-second video from one TIFF, run:

ffmpeg -loop 1 -framerate 30 -i input.tif -t 5 -vf "scale=trunc(iw/2)*2:trunc(ih/2)*2" -c:v libvpx-vp9 -pix_fmt yuv420p -an output.webm

Replace input.tif and output.webm with the filenames you want. Change -t 5 to set the duration in seconds. The scale filter makes the dimensions even, as required by this common pixel format. For a numbered image sequence, use an input pattern such as frame%03d.tif and set the input frame rate to control playback speed.

Quality and limitations

The command encodes with lossy VP9 and yuv420p, so fine detail, color precision, and transparency may not be preserved as in the TIFF. WEBM output from this command has no audio. A multipage TIFF may need to be split into separate images first; how pages are handled depends on the conversion method.