GB`s and GB`s of Pointless Pictures and Videos

[mavhc]

Here's my python version https://github.com/mavhc/shrink-video-recursive-python, drag a folder onto the .py file

[JJonas]

I would be interested in the Handbrake script as well.

[PotNoodleTech]

Yeah me too for the PS Handbrake script please!

 

Mee too please!

[jthompson]

I use WatchDISK to alert me to increases in folder size, Image Resizer Powertoy (Win7) to batch resize them down to merely 'large' (~90% reduction in filesize typically) and Format Factory to reduce videos to 480p.

 

I'm loving that people have been able to automate this stuff, though. NXPowerLite is new to me, will take a look!

[DrCheese]

I've modified this

https://gist.github.com/The-Running-Dev/85ce39d7f7e4201e0dd611f20cd07656

 

& set it to output everything as a 720p video. It sucks in every video file type except m4v (which virtually nothing is, it's just mp4 renamed) and outputs as .m4v - It then saves the orginal else where in case you need it for whatever reason.

 

Amount of space I'm saving is unreal & no one notices a thing.

[TwistedHelixis]

Moved all our photos to Google drive last year. All staff now have their phones or tablets set to auto upload and the ones that use normal cameras now know how to upload to Drive from a laptop. It made a massive difference and is free for an unlimited amount.

[CraigM]

I took all our photos home more than a year ago, imported into Lightroom and started the clean up by hand in my spare time or when the mood takes me. My goal is to have a sorted archive of all the digital photos from 2000 to the present, logically sorted in folders by event name, in a top level tree of year folders. So far it's going very well, I've dumped 70000+ photos that were duplicates, rubbish out of focus and so on or RAW files, which I converted to JPEG. It's slow going and I've hit a bit of a slow patch lately, but when I'm on leave next week I intend to power through another couple of thousand photos.

 

I don't resize photos and I also don't keep photos from the early days that are 640x480. You cannot do much with photos of that resolution, so they go in the bin. The 1280x1024 photos get picked on merit, as does the rest actually.

[jbunoomally]

Don't forget that these images may be within scope of the DPA (or soon to be GDPR), and should only be retained in line with policy and used for the specified purpose.

 

JB.

[BrightH]

For videos I use Handbrake's Command line interface with a Powershell script.

Copy a bunch of videos into a folder and it outputs a down sampled mp4 version.

 

A 2.1GB video file from one of the cameras, transcoded down to 335MB.

[mavhc]

For videos I use Handbrake's Command line interface with a Powershell script.

Copy a bunch of videos into a folder and it outputs a down sampled mp4 version.

 

A 2.1GB video file from one of the cameras, transcoded down to 335MB.

 

My script will do that, and not recompress already recompressed files, and seems to rotate them as well https://github.com/mavhc/shrink-video-recursive-python

[BrightH]

My script will do that, and not recompress already recompressed files, and seems to rotate them as well https://github.com/mavhc/shrink-video-recursive-python

 

Yeh I saw that about 5 minutes after I posted my reply, Going to be using that from now on, nice work!