Dex

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(this may not play smoothly in all browsers or may only do so after a number of loops, try firefox if others are giving problems)

today i have been working on:

getting AVIF formatting working for the website because i noticed how big one of the GIFs was
and then hyperfixations led me to do a number of tests on best format to use
and then figuring out the best way to automate the conversion

so enjoy this commission made by beelzeburb on twitter that i had completely forgotten about

technical stats:
the source file is a 1280x720 mp4, 643KB
i like to downscale stuff for the website so it's 1200 in the largest dimension - so as a 1200x675 AVIF, it's 391KB
without cutting down frames, the fallback 500x281 GIF generated is 13.1MB??
(i think imagemagick is choking a bit on the background gradient, but still)


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This post has content warnings for: macro, flip flops, animated, paws, but actually i'm using this to talk about animated image formats.

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in reply to @Dex's post:

Not sure offhand, sorry - and it's 3am and I'm away from home, so not the best time for doing research. There was a Github issue raised about ImageMagick's libheif implementation of AV1 copying the JPEG sometimes so could be possible I still somehow ended up with something equivalent to Motion JPEG; I don't remember if I directly updated ImageMagick before running these tests. (Should probably have recorded the version as well, oops)

I'm absolutely sure it'd be possible to tweak WEBP quality settings to get to 2.6MB, and yeah it could just be a lower default quality with librav1e - I just didn't want to have to spend too much time tweaking beyond what was needed for getting things working.