How to create animated WebP?

[ryan...@gmail.com]

Hi, WebP community and developers,

I really like WebP format although it may need more time to become popular.

I tried every WebP feature using the official standalone command line program, but cannot find a way to create animated WebP other than GIF. I don't like converting WebP from GIF, because GIF has many limitation especially the number of unique color which only up to 256.

Is there a way to create animated WebP from other formats, such as PNG?

Regards,

RyanBram

[Vlastimil Miléř]

You can try my animated PNG -> animated WebP converter at
http://www.rw-designer.com/apng2webp
or my freeware image editor, which can be used create animations
(click the arrow on the Create button and pick "Create as Animated
image") and save them as WebP at
http://www.rw-designer.com/image-editor

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[Urvang Joshi]

Hi Ryan,
If you are OK with using an API, you can also make use of the AnimEncoder API we added to the codebase recently: https://gerrit.chromium.org/gerrit/gitweb?p=webm/libwebp.git;a=blob;f=src/webp/mux.h;h=5126ad5da3a54ef29c9bf6612a365c9ffdfa3352;hb=refs/heads/master#l396

The gif2webp binary now uses that API as well.

This API is only in the master branch for now, and hasn't released as a version yet; but we expect it to release in near future. So feel free to use it and let me know if you have any issues.

On Tue Jan 27 2015 at 3:18:28 AM Vlastimil Miléř <vlastim...@gmail.com> wrote:

You can try my animated PNG -> animated WebP converter at
http://www.rw-designer.com/apng2webp
or my freeware image editor, which can be used create animations
(click the arrow on the Create button and pick "Create as Animated
image") and save them as WebP at
http://www.rw-designer.com/image-editor

On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 11:21 AM,  <ryan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, WebP community and developers,
> I really like WebP format although it may need more time to become popular.
>
> I tried every WebP feature using the official standalone command line
> program, but cannot find a way to create animated WebP other than GIF. I
> don't like converting WebP from GIF, because GIF has many limitation
> especially the number of unique color which only up to 256.
>
> Is there a way to create animated WebP from other formats, such as PNG?
>
> Regards,
> RyanBram
>
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[ryan...@gmail.com]

Hi, Vlasta & Joshi,
I tried all of your suggestion and satisfy with the result. I wonder why I didn't notice all of your software. I wont't bother to recommend them to my friend.
Thank you for helping.

Best regards,
RyanBram

[Jos Hirth]

You can create animated (truecolor) WebP images with webpmux.

First, create a few WebP images with cwebp. Then join them together with webpmux.

https://developers.google.com/speed/webp/docs/webpmux (see the example at the bottom)

[ryan...@gmail.com]

Thanks for additional information.
The next problem is finding an image viewer which support animated WebP and it seems there is nothing exist until today, except Chrome.

[alexfe...@gmail.com]

I would like to reference a software called ABM Animated Banner Maker. You can create vectorial frame by frame layer by layer animations and export them to webp. The program works much like Adobe Animate in respect how you animate. You can change position, size, transparency, rotation, colors of symbols and symbols can be images, text, and polygons. ABM is from PCWinSoft. Look it up.

[James Zern]

Hi,

On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 12:16 PM <alexfe...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I would like to reference a software called ABM Animated Banner Maker. You can create vectorial frame by frame layer by layer animations and export them to webp. The program works much like Adobe Animate in respect how you animate. You can change position, size, transparency, rotation, colors of symbols and symbols can be images, text, and polygons. ABM is from PCWinSoft. Look it up.
>

To create animated webp files you can have a look at the
WebPAnimEncoderAPI [1]. gif2webp (examples/gif2webp.c) [2] and
img2webp (examples/img2webp.c) [3] show some sample usage of the API.

[1] https://developers.google.com/speed/webp/docs/container-api#webpanimencoder_api
[2] https://developers.google.com/speed/webp/docs/gif2webp
[3] https://developers.google.com/speed/webp/docs/img2webp