My image viewer (Xviewer) is sufficient for converting still images to still Webp by just “Save as…”, but Xviewer and Pinta only produce still single-frame webps from animated GIFs.

  • klu9@lemmy.caOPEnglish
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    22 days ago

    Thanks for the tip. Decided to bite the bullet.

    • Try “Save as…”, realize that won’t work and need to use “Export as…”
    • Change file extension to. webp, click “Export” and get a window with various options and checkboxes. “As animation” is unticked, so I tick it.
    • “This is… taking a long time.” Like, 5-10 times as long as a website like EZgif.com. (Probably due to my puny hardware.)
    • But it works! Results in an animated webp. About twice the file size of the one from EZgif but hopefully I can tweak things in that option window to get the file size down.

    Thanks :)

    • klu9@lemmy.caOPEnglish
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      22 days ago

      I am able to reduce the file size with those options, got it down to half the size of the one from EZgif, and I could probably squeeze it even further if I wanted.