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cross-posted from: https://startrek.website/post/18851336
I usually don't post non-OCs, but this one seems relatively rare. The GIF quality was terrible, so I took the MP4 and encoded it into a high-quality animated WEBP. APNG was tempting, but when I tried that for my Prodigy meme, I ran into all sorts of issues. WEBP seems better supported.
Source: https://tenor.com/view/klingon-jump-rope-gif-7629146
I just messed around with using ffmpeg to convert that MP4 to both APNG and WEBP, and the size difference was substantial, but definitely not that bad.
klingon-jump-rope.mp4ffmpeg -i klingon-jump-rope.mp4 -plays 0 klingon-jump-rope.apngffmpeg -i klingon-jump-rope.mp4 -loop 0 klingon-jump-rope.webpffmpeg -i klingon-jump-rope.mp4 klingon-jump-rope.webmEDIT: Oh, right, "few dozen megabytes" probably refers to some other animation you had made. Still, you are right, WEBP seems to be the way to go.
I think part of my Prodigy meme problem was I tried to encode in a bit too high a resolution (720x480). When retesting it today, I had a 49.1 MiB file, verses with a WEBP encoded at quality level 90, I got it down to 3 megabytes while still looking pretty good. I also kept having an issue with APNG white lines that I could never figure out.
Also, the WEBP was a bit larger than that - I wasn't satisfied with FFMPEG's default quality level of 75, so I experimented and decided on 97, getting a size of 333.8 KiB.
P.S For funzies, here's the WEBP version of that Prodigy meme I was talking about (done in 85):
Love it, just needs to hold on the punchline a bit longer.
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