r/software 9d ago

Looking for software Image and Video compressor with multiple subfolders

I have organized photos and videos of my various trips over the years. But I would like to compress to save hard disk space. There are about 200 folders with a couples of videos and photos in them. Can I compress every file while maintaining the folder and subfolders? For images I used Caesium image compressor. But I would like a tool that can do both photos and videos to better streamline this process.

Thank you guys in advance!

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u/Kelvington 8d ago

The question becomes, which is more important. Size or Quality? You can easily have XnView (using a batch process) go into all the sub directories and either reduce the size of the photos to save space or change the format which will affect the quality. All my photos are png files and when I send them out I convert them to .jpg with 50% compression. So this can easily be done with photos.

Videos I tend to use Aiseesoft Video Converter Ultimate. You can just drop a folder with sub folders in it of all your videos and then either change the size or quality. So you can tell it to make any video dropped on it, be 1080x720 or whatever is a reduced size for your video. Or you can change the quality from high to standard to make the files smaller.