Screencaps File Size Too Big

[rei]

I've been trying to cap an episode which is 55 mins using the VLC media player auto-cap function. The first time I tried, I ended up with 4,000 caps that totalled to 1.16GB in file size (as in the folder size, not the width and height). I retried and this time, I got 3,200 caps that are slightly smaller in file size at 980MB

Comments

[jadeleopard]

My guess it's because they .bmp files. Use irfanview to convert them to .jpg

[rei]

They are .png files, actually. But THANK YOU, for reminding me about a little thing called file type. /FAILS SO MUCH omg

[rei]

I have changed the .png files to .jpg and the file size has been halved (yay!). But it's still rather big, sitting at 550MB. Is there any way to make that number even smaller?

[jadeleopard]

Did you use irfanview? You can change the jpg quality slider down to 80 or so.

[nomadicwriter]

What file type are they being saved as? Standard quality jpegs don't take too much storage space, but png files are generally much bigger.

[rei]

That may be the problem. I'm so used to saving all my image files as .png that I set my caps to be automatically saved as .png files. In other words, I completely forgot about the difference that comes with file types fml.

Thank you! I'll go change it and see how it goes. :)

[rei]

I have changed the .png files to .jpg and the file size has been halved (yay!). But it's still rather big, sitting at 550MB. Is there any way to make that number even smaller?

[dinosaur]

You probably have the file format set to PNG. PNG files are much larger than JPG, that's why it's so huge. You'll have to either change the file format in VLC's preferences to JPG or convert the files to JPG with a third party application/program.

[rei]

tbh i forgot all about the difference that comes with file types. ^^;; So much fail. SO MUCH FAIL.

Thank you for the comment! :D

[rei]

I have changed the .png files to .jpg and the file size has been halved (yay!). But it's still rather big, sitting at 550MB. Is there any way to make that number even smaller?

[dinosaur]

Look for an image optimizer application/program. I use ImageOptim but it's for Mac only. I'm sure there are similar programs for Windows.

[1842]

i know the main post says solved, but i just wanted to add: in my experience with VLC, changing the file type from png to jpg DESTROYED the quality of the caps. it was an extra step, but i would cap as png and then convert to jpg afterward. but if the caps look good the way you're doing it, congrats and keep going!

[rei]

Thank you for your input! That's what I'm doing now, actually. I'm not sure why, but an error showed up when I tried to cap the episode in jpg format. :( So I headlaptopped and went ahead and installed a png-to-jpg converter, haha.