Worked on making output uploading much faster. There will be almost no time „processing“ the output anymore after the upload is done.
We will process all outputs in a worker thread to generate multiple new assets for different use-cases. Depending on the output this can take up several seconds or even minutes (videos). In the near future all this will happen in the background and you will never again have to wait till processing is done.
The new assets will include H.264 videos in 360p, 480p, 720p and 1080p that automatically get selected dependent on your screen size and bandwidth.
Before we did not compress or convert your videos which was problematic because not all browsers and operating systems support all video file formats and it also effected loading times in regions with a lower bandwidth.
For images we now generate multiple new photo sizes for previews, the image that gets shown in the timeline and the open graph image that gets used as link preview on Twitter.
All audio files get now converted to an mp3 with a variable bitrate.
These changes will dramatically improve loading times and decrease overall network usage.
All your outputs will also get stored as an untouched original. We will later add a feature that lets you download your original file whenever you want.
All of this is not live yet. I plan to ship this over the weekend.