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Need to convert Quicktime Movie to compact, autoplaying, looping file for posting on website

I have a Quicktime .MOV file that I would like to convert into a autoplaying, looping file of some sort that I could then place on a website.

It is an animation, with just a few graphic images moving.

I need it to very very compact. A similar Shockwave Flash file was 140k

Thanks.

lenamtl

Hi,

you can convert it to gif
https://cloudconvert.com/mov-to-gif

or if you have a budget you can use this video converter https://videoconverter.wondershare.net/
or use Filmora https://filmora.wondershare.net/video-editor/

Wondershare have very great and affortable softwares, I use this from a few years and I'm very happy with

Michael Elliott

Like lenamtl has suggested, there are several online converters that will probably do the trick.

I personally prefer https://ezgif.com/video-to-gif because it seems to keep file size on the lower end and offers quite a few editing solutions.

David Favor

As lenamtl suggested, creating an animated GIF or PNG will be best.

Currently autoplay videos are only allowed in browsers, if the video is muted.

Future browser versions will almost surely completely block all forms of autoplay, so animated images will be your best approach.

To convert your movie to a animated image only once, using an online tool will likely suffice.

If you have many animated images to generate, likely a better approach will be to build or install ffmpeg + generate your own animated image on the command line.

Using ffmpeg also allows you complete control over all aspects of the image rendering process, which may be required also.

No way to guess, without a copy of your footage to analyze.

computerlarry

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I used Quicktime capture on a Mac, and found a site that converted to autoplaying GIF. The GIF is 3 MB in size. I tried a few online GIF compressors, but they don't save much more than 10%. I tried resizing to 50% (to then be enlarged by the server) but that didn't save enough either. I have Adobe Animate, but that won't accept GIF or MOV. Is there anything that will super-compress?

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lenamtl

Hi,

Unfortunately GIF are often huge file
So you will need to decide between small video file that will probably not autoplay or using a big file animation gif?

I don't know the reason for the autoplay....

But I would use cloud like Youtube / Vimeo because it save bandwidth and space and play ok in any browser

If you want to host your videos then use HTML5
- don't forget to add a poster so user can see at least an image and different video format for browser compatibility.

example from https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/video

<!-- Using multiple sources as fallbacks for a video tag -->
<!-- 'Elephants Dream' by Orange Open Movie Project Studio, licensed under CC-3.0, hosted by archive.org -->
<!-- Poster hosted by Wikimedia -->
<video width="620" controls
  poster="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e8/Elephants_Dream_s5_both.jpg" >
  <source
    src="https://archive.org/download/ElephantsDream/ed_1024_512kb.mp4"
    type="video/mp4">
  <source
    src="https://archive.org/download/ElephantsDream/ed_hd.ogv"
    type="video/ogg">
  <source
    src="https://archive.org/download/ElephantsDream/ed_hd.avi"
    type="video/avi">
  Your browser doesn't support HTML5 video tag.
</video>

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You can convert video to a lightweight formats such as VP9 and H.265