karlhorky/dotfiles

Add folder action for converting screenshots to AVIF using Ventura Preview.app conversion or `cavif`

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karlhorky commented

Since macOS Ventura will support AVIF in Finder, Preview and Safari, it is a good time to convert to AVIF for everything.

There seems to be no information about whether AVIF will be a supported screenshot format, but given the long processing time for creation, I would imagine that

It would be nice to set up an automated macOS folder action here for converting any new screenshots and other images that appear in the ~/Downloads directory to AVIF.

Some implementation ideas:

  1. Use the macOS Ventura Preview.app to convert to AVIF
  2. Use cavif (Rust command line converter tool from kornelski)
  3. Use ImageMagick: https://www.tempertemper.net/blog/converting-images-to-avif-in-2021