What is MOV?
MOV is QuickTime's container - what iPhones and Macs record. The open secret is that MP4 was standardised *from* it, so the two share their internal structure almost exactly, and reading one is reading the other. Writing a true MOV is another matter, which is why it converts from here but not to.
What is GIF?
GIF is thirty-eight years old and refuses to die, because it animates and everything opens it. The cost is its palette: 256 colours per frame, so photographs come out visibly banded. Transparency is on-or-off per pixel, with no partial opacity.