Affinity Photo 2 Batch Job without WEBP export

[bsx]

Hello, I am glad to see that Photo 2 can now save WEBP formats. Yesterday I had a lot of images to convert, but unfortunately there is no WEBP format to choose from in the batch job export. The dialog is unchanged from V1, so I went back to using XNVIEW MP. This does a good job.

[wheeleran]

would love this too. I've been experimenting with XnConvert; is there any particular difference with XnView, or is that just an all-in-one?

[bsx]

39 minutes ago, wheeleran said:

is there any particular difference with XnView, or is that just an all-in-one?

I think, there ist no difference in converting images. I don't use XnConvert.

XnView (I use XNVIEW MP) is a all in one Solution, a photo viewer, image manager, image converter for all plattforms (Windows, MacOS and Linux).

 

[wheeleran]

thanks, nice to know. still can't solve my problem, which is why i'm trawling the forums: any webP i create in Affinity shows only the default 'Open With' program icon, in my case the microsoft Edge browser icon. I'm on Windows 11. any webP i download from the internet renders the image thumbnail correctly, but not Affinity created images. any suggestions? i've installed the google codec, i've deleted the thumbnail cache, i'm out of ideas.

[simonartist]

Same here, I need to replace all the files to WebP format. Yes it is disappointing not having this in Version 2.

[VanHeber]

One more for this topic. I need batch convert to WebP too.

[wheeleran]

3 minutes ago, VanHeber said:

One more for this topic. I need batch convert to WebP too.

XnConvert works well, and the quality is good.

[nezumi]

Same here. I was actually surprised why WEBP isnt there. Please add this format to batch job export options.

[v_kyr]

On 1/10/2023 at 6:23 PM, wheeleran said:

XnConvert works well, and the quality is good.

It depends, XNviewMP's version 0.94.3 (...it's latest version for MacOS 10.11.6 - El Capitan) cores exactly on webp format files, it can't correctly show, preview and handle those!

[2ddpainter]

as @fde101 mentioned below, you generally can't export WEBP in Photo 2
so the Macro Recorder I mentioned is not helpful

Edited March 4, 2023 by 2ddpainter
Wrong assumption

[fde101]

39 minutes ago, 2ddpainter said:

There are also free and paid macro recorders out there.
With these, you might be able to do the same from Affinity Photo 2.

You seem to have misunderstood the problem.

Affinity Photo 2 already has built-in batch conversion capabilities.

What is missing is the ability to export files in the WebP format.

You can't use an external macro utility to automate telling the program to do something that you can't manually tell it to do.

[nezumi]

I am grateful for some alternative but ultimately we would love to see that inside of Affinity. WEBP format is supported, batch job is there - all we need is adding that webp format as an option in batch job. Would really be very helpful.

[2ddpainter]

15 hours ago, fde101 said:

You seem to have misunderstood the problem.

aahh, you right, sorry

[Ash]

Hi - I'm pleased to say WebP and JPEG XL are now available from batch export in the 2.1 beta as below. If you want try it out in the beta you can sign up to our beta program here.