Filee Files

What's Changed

New

• PDF → one long image (issue [#50]). A multi-page PDF becomes a single tall image with the pages one under another, e.g. to post a whole document at once. Use Long image on the PDF donut (PNG), or tick "Stack the pages into one tall image" in any image preset. Pages of different widths are centred; a result taller than the format stores (JPG 65,500 px, WebP 16,383 px) or very large is scaled down to fit. TIFF and GIF keep one page per frame.
• Photos → video in full colour. HEIC, JPG, PNG, AVIF and other pictures → MP4, MOV or WEBM (with FFmpeg) used to pass through a GIF, which leaves 256 colours and bands skies and skin. They now go straight from a full-size PNG: a 5-second still video at the photo's own size, with its colours (Display P3 photos stay P3) and transparent areas in black. Only photos over about 36 megapixels (48 MP phone cameras) are scaled down, to the largest picture H.264 and VP9 players decode. Animated GIF/WebP and PDF pages still become a moving video or a slideshow.
• MOV ↔ MP4 without quality loss. When the new format can hold the video and sound as they are, like an iPhone video (HEVC or H.264 with AAC) going from MOV to MP4, Filee now only rewraps them instead of re-encoding: nothing is lost, HDR and 10-bit colour stay, and it takes seconds. The same goes for MKV, WebM and TS. Choosing a smaller size (e.g. 720p), another audio bitrate or quality Small still re-encodes.
• Save images as HEIC (with FFmpeg). Any image Filee reads → HEIC, the format iPhones take photos in: about a quarter of a JPG's size at the same quality, stored in 512-pixel tiles like a phone photo, upright, with the colour profile and Exif kept. The HEIC preset is on the Presets page (quality 80); add it to a donut to use it. Transparent areas are filled with the preset's background colour.

Pull requests

• PDF → one long image (#50), version 1.10.0 by @KnifeLemon in https://github.com/KnifeLemon/Filee/pull/53
• Photos → video in full colour, images → HEIC by @KnifeLemon in https://github.com/KnifeLemon/Filee/pull/54
• Rewrap video instead of re-encoding when the container takes the codecs by @KnifeLemon in https://github.com/KnifeLemon/Filee/pull/56
• Engine update notice test: dispose the captured frame (Windows release crash) by @KnifeLemon in https://github.com/KnifeLemon/Filee/pull/55
• Release and CI test the UI with the embedded fonts on one headless application by @KnifeLemon in https://github.com/KnifeLemon/Filee/pull/57

Full Changelog: https://github.com/KnifeLemon/Filee/compare/v1.9.0...v1.10.0