Media and image tools

Video and image jobs, done in the tab rather than on somebody else's server.

Your browser already ships a video decoder, a canvas and the file APIs. Every tool on this shelf is a handle on those three, which is why a 4 GB video opens the instant you drop it in. It never moves off your disk.

That matters most here. Media files are the big ones, so they are the slowest to upload and the most awkward to hand to a stranger. A frame from an unreleased edit is exactly the file you should not be sending anywhere.

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Named and designed, but not written yet. They are listed so you can see where this shelf is going. No dates, because a promised date on a free project is a broken one waiting to happen.

GIF MakerTurn a clip from any video file into a looping GIF, encoded frame by frame in the page.In build

Guides for these tools

YouTube thumbnail sizes and URLsEvery thumbnail resolution YouTube generates, the exact URL for each, which ones are always available, and why some carry black bars.How to screenshot a YouTube videoMethods for Windows, macOS, iPhone, Android and the browser. Includes the trick for capturing without the player controls in shot.How to extract frames from a videoBrowser tools, ffmpeg one-liners and VLC compared: quality, speed, batch support and when each one is the right choice.How to go frame by frame on YouTubeThe two keys that step one frame at a time, the three reasons they stop working, and what to do on a phone where they do not exist.How to convert HEIC to JPGWhy an iPhone photo arrives as HEIC, the fix on iPhone, Windows and Mac, and the one setting that stops it happening again.How to remove the background from an imageThe browser, Photoshop, Preview, PowerPoint and the phone method compared, plus why a white background is a different job from a subject cutout.Does resizing an image reduce quality?What a downscale actually throws away, why none of it comes back on the way up, and the measured cost across six methods on the same photograph.What JPEG quality setting should you use?What every step down the quality scale costs in bytes and in visible detail, swept from 100 to 40 on five kinds of picture, with the number where the saving stops being worth it.How to open a WebP fileWhich software already opens WebP and which never will, the fix on Windows, macOS, iPhone and Android, and the same answer for AVIF.How to convert JPG to PNGThe steps in Paint, Preview, Photoshop and the browser, plus the two things people expect the conversion to fix that it cannot.Does trimming an MP3 lose quality?Cutting an MP3 usually re-encodes it, and that costs real detail. What frame-accurate cutting is, what it cannot do, and the loss measured over ten generations.

This is one shelf of the full floi directory. The rest is media, text, developer, documents, education and design.

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