bootanimation help

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I recently created a pretty cool vintage droid bootanimation but with all the png's it is 150mb and each png is 336kb, is there a way to optimize the png's so they are smaller? there is only 499 png's in total. Thank you for your help.

I ran into a similar problem the other day. There are a couple of programs that can shrink the PNGs down without loss of quality(they are considered lossless files). There is PNGout and PNGcrush. These are command line programs. Then, if you need a GUI style one, check out PNGWin(I thought it was called, but can't find info ATM). I found it easier though to use the online program found at http://www.gracepointafterfive.com/punypng . You can only do 25 at a time, but it's quick and you can download the finished ones in .zip format instead of individually. With all that info bouncing around your head, I might add that there is probably no way to get that big of a file down to a manageable size as PNGs. The best you can hope for(at least quickly/easily) is a 40-50% reduction overall. I ended up just converting everything to JPG status and it worked well enough, combined with the files being 20% of the size of even my crushed PNGs, to make it worthwile. Hope this helps!

Thank you, the jpg idea worked like a charm. Was able to get the boot screen down to 13mb from 150mb. I didn't know you could use jpg. Again, thank you.

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Glad to help I struggled with that for like 3 days, reading different forums, trying to ask in chat rooms, etc. Another forum member ihtfp69 showed me one of his that used JPGs and yea, that made life so much easier. 13MB is still a pretty hefty sized boot animation since it gets stored in your internal phone memory. If you use a2sd it's probably not too big of an issue, but if you are wanting to share with the community then it might be something to look into as that might scare a few of them away. Check out my Mario one in this forum, I think it's pretty cool too I have a Wall-e and Eve one that I did for a forum member over at android forums but not quite sure if it is polished yet, waiting to see how it works for him. Anyway, have a good one!