Beyond the PIL: alternative solutions for working with images and video.
summary
PIL handles normal image work but fails on print/archival needs: LZW TIFF write unsupported by PIL, raw camera formats and ICC profiling are missing, and PDFs can be write-only. Practical solutions use external engines: wand (ImageMagick) works cleanly for converting large TIFFs to JPEGs and thumbnails, while GraphicsMagick wrappers prove brittle. Reliable pattern is wrapping CLIs via subprocess and queuing jobs; for video the trick is ffmpeg trick: force error to read duration then extract nine evenly spaced keyframes. Large TIFFs (hundreds of megapixels, >1GB) require worker farms and streaming to avoid memory blowups.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:11Why I didnt present
- 1:01Digital Asset Management
- 2:01Print Production
- 2:11Missing Features
- 5:43Use the PIL
- 5:57Imagemagick
- 9:10PGmagic
- 11:47GMwrap
- 15:02Subprocess
- 21:32ffmpeg
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