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NEttio
Community Member
2 years ago

WebP support in Storyline to lower carbon footprint of training

Can I ask when .webp image files will be able to be used in Storyline instead of .jpg, .gif and .png? We currently can't import them into Storyline. It's really important, as using .webp images ca...
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KenFlieger
Community Member
3 months ago

Needed webP to change an animated screen capture of a SVG (full color). Gif only supported a 256 palette so the shading looked terrible. So I screen captured the animation using ScreenToGif and saved it as webP animation file. Came in ten times smaller then a GIF and looked excellent. I guess I wasted my time.

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    NEttio
    Community Member
    3 months ago

    You could convert an animation to video, but this is a horrible waste of size/bandwidth if you don't really need video.

    I built a tool to convert any PNG/JPG/GIF images in a Storyline file to WEBP and make the necessary changes in the file. Take a look and see what you think. My clients have been really happy with the results. It's lowered their carbon footprint and made their training faster to load.

    https://lowcarbonweb.com/storyline

     

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