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Convert large animated GIFs to WebP or <video> #111

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Several docs pages embed animated GIFs that are large and limited to 256 colors. Converting them to animated WebP (typically 5–10× smaller) or <video> (smaller still, with pause/seek controls) would cut page weight and improve legibility on the tiny Editor-capture clips.

Content lives on versioned branches, so the assets appear under docs/media/imgs/ on several:

  • unreal/v2.2, v2.3 & internalbeamball-content.gif (23 MB), beamable-release.gif (22 MB), intro-beamable-window-location.gif (768 KB), content-add-content.gif
  • unity/v5.1lightbeam-samples.gif (3.9 MB), lightbox-inventory-add-item.gif (700 KB), getting-started.gif (468 KB), lightbox-inventory-addItem-content.gif (444 KB), admin-console.gif (184 KB)
  • unity/v5.0 & v5.1leaderboard.gif, leaderboard-animated.gif (904 KB each)
  • internal — also content-add-content.gif

The two ~22–23 MB Unreal/internal files are the priority. Verify the build still lightboxes/embeds the replacement format before landing.

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