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Robert K JSS Tech
5 years agoExplorer | Level 4
Improving Dropbox video preview quality - thinking outside the box
The poor quality of the Dropbox transcoded preview has been discussed over the years, particularly between 2015-2017. Over the last six years, internet speeds have changed remarkably and online stre...
Trulee H.
11 years agoNew member | Level 1
Why does Dropbox compress video files and how to you change this?
John G.45
10 years agoNew member | Level 1
I just sent some photos via DropBox to an editor for running with a story. The editor said they were too small, they needed to be more than 2000 pixels. They were more than that on my computer, but when I went and downloaded one of the images from the DropBox folder, it was smaller than the original. So something is going on to compress the image from over 5000 pixels (300 dpi) to 2000 pixels (96 dpi).
If DropBox does NOT compress images, what is happening?
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