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Interface to set quality of file and available formats to convert

Feature Request

The app will remain underutilized if you don’t show anywhere which all formats the given file can be converted into and how to control the quality and size of the resulting conversion. I understand that you want to make it interface-less, but most users don’t know which formats the app supports, or which all formats my given file can be converted into and what are the possible resulting sized of those files. I like the simplicity, but I want to know which video format should I convert to. I don’t want my HEIC file of 10MB be converted into a 10mb jpeg file. Let me have control.

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  • Maximilian Krause changed status to Rejected
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    Jul 22

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    Hi there! Thanks for your feedback. Generally, conversion settings such as quality are already available for most converters (and have been available for a while). However, these are only visible if you have “Ask before converting” enabled. If you have configured Consul to convert immediately with no intermediate step, you won’t be able to configure settings on a per-conversion basis (only the defaults in the app settings). Given that this is the main ask, I’ll close this feature request.

    However, I agree with most of the other things and would categorize your feedback into these distinct points, which I’ll open as new feature requests instead:

    1. Lowering the quality defaults to prevent file size blow-up (i.e. Consul currently uses a quality setting of 100 by default for most image converters which blows up file sizes, while most other tools use something around 80-90)

    2. A size estimation for resulting files in the confirmation pop-up, and potentially inlining a small, compiled overview of settings, even when the settings selectors are collapsed (e.g. “Quality 85 · Strip Metadata · ~2.1 MB")

    3. An in-app overview of supported formats / conversions (we already have the overview on the website, but having something like this but smaller directly in the app would likely be good, too)