Mogrify overwrites existing images if their filenames match, so make a backup of your precious files beforehand.fmw42 Posts: 25562 Joined: T01:14:51+01:00 Authentication code: 1152 Location: Sunnyvale, California, USA. Example: convert animated.gif animated.webp. Otherwise youll see command not found or something similar. If ImageMagick is installed, youll see a copyright notice and a list of commands. Ubuntu Linux users, use Ctrl + Alt + T to open one. If that's not the case, you can find the installation guide over here It would be great if ImageMagick would also convert an animated GIF to an animated WebP. Heres how to check: Open a terminal window. You need to have ImageMagick (also called Imagick or even just Magick) installed.Pro tip: WebP also supports transparencies, so if you don't need pixel perfect accuracy this format is also a great way to make more complex images quite a bit smaller. montage scriptk.gif -coalesce -tile x1 -frame 4 -geometry +2+2 -background none -bordercolor none coalescekmontage.gif.
These are in my opinion giant savings, so I'd highly recommend trying this out for yourself. Here for example will generate a montage of the same confusing animation sequence I showed above, but this time well ' -coalesce ' the sequences, so you can see what is really happening. In my experience, most images (depending on their complexity) get reduced to around 70% percent of their original file size, and in some instances this drops to 50% or even 40% of the original size. I find 80 to be a good compromise between quality and file size, but your mileage may vary. -quality 80 sets the compression quality (with 0 being maximally compressed and 100 having near lossless compression).-format webp is the output format of the images (you can also change this to -format jpg for example to convert this back to JPEG).This is running on ImageMagick and is structured as follows: Unfortunately, my photo editing software of choice (Adobe Lightroom) does not natively support exporting to WebP, so here's a short line of code that you can enter in your terminal to convert all JPEG images in a folder to WebP: This is actually fairly easy, but unfortunately this blows up the bandwidth needed to load my site.Įnter WebP! This image format is not that new anymore, but in the last couple of years browser support became high enough to make this a sensible default for most scenarios. Magick convert *.webp -set filename:basename "%" "%.I'm in the process of converting all (or at least most) images on my website to look nicer (meaning: sharper with 2x their resolution) on modern high resolution screens. gifs but also maintain the same filename is: For anyone curious, the full command to convert. I'll keep trying in the meantime, but if you happen to know a general idea of what parameters to use, I can extrapolate from there.ĮDIT: Nevermind, I figured it out. However, I think ImageMagick may be the one I'll have to use considering the online converters that I've tested that worked use ImageMagick. Im pretty sure I used a similar command in the past with success, Im now using ImageMagick 7.0. png -quality 90 -set filename:basename 'basename' 'optim/filename:basename'.webp Instead of writing one webp per png, I get one webp file with all the images as an animation. And this was after going through their entire documentation on their tool. I want to convert PNGs to webp, for that I use : convert. it should keep original size all image in video ffmpeg -f image2 -r 1/5 -i na03d.jpg -y -r 25 test.mp4 ffmpeg -y -r 1/5 -i na03d.jpg -r 25 out.mp4. Then I ended up trying to use ImageMagick but for the life of me, I couldn't figure out the correct command line parameters to work the conversions. These two commands making videos with correct delay time but with different resolution pics in video it convert all the image to first image resolution. I know the data isn't corrupted because I can open the file in my browser where it will play like a normal gif. You can first use imagemagick to convert webp to multiple pngs, and then combine those with ffmpeg. You mentioned mp4, obviously youll have better results with it. I've already sifted through the images and have separated out the animated webp's from the stills, so that wont be an issue. GIF on the other hand is limited to 8 bit colors and one of them is designated as the transparent color Having gif the same quality as webp does not sound real to me.