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Understanding Video File Types: Codecs, Containers, and Outputs

TechSmith Camtasia

A container is the file that contains your video, audio streams, and any closed caption files as well. MOV (QuickTime Movie) stores high-quality video, audio, and effects. MOV files use Appleā€™s proprietary compression algorithm. These are smaller files that will load quickly and stream easily. filename.mp4).

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Mobile Flash?

AMVONET

As you may have heard, Adobe last week admitted defeat in its long-running battle with Apple over Adobe’s Flash technology. As Apple’s CEO, the late Jobs barred Flash from Apple’s iPhone and other handheld devices and famously wrote an open letter last year explaining why. Somewhere Steve Jobs must be smiling.

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How To Edit Video: Reducing File Size

TechSmith Camtasia

Codecs encode or compress streams of data for storage, playback and video editing on a variety of platforms. Other common video file types include: MOV (Apple Quicktime Movie).AVI There are many different video formats you could export your finished video into. Learn more about codecs here. You may have heard of the h.264

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E-learning Development: Selecting the Right Audio, Video, and Image Format

CommLab India

FLV: (FLASH LIVE VIDEO) FLV was once the preferred format for video streaming in mobiles, but now with the rise of HTML 5, the MP4 video format is being preferred. MOV: (QuickTime Movie) MOV is a popular video format file, originally developed by Apple Inc. M4A: File extension created by Apple, used only for audio files.

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