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How To Edit Video: Reducing File Size

TechSmith Camtasia

Video file size can be tricky and the concept of reducing video file size has many technical variables associated with it. You may want to reduce file size to more easily send to your co-workers, or complete your upload to YouTube quicker. Other common video file types include: MOV (Apple Quicktime Movie).AVI

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Understanding Video File Types: Codecs, Containers, and Outputs

TechSmith Camtasia

It can digitize and compress an audio or video signal for transmission and convert an incoming signal to audio or video for reception. It gives you much smaller file sizes with minimal quality loss. Be aware that the higher the bit rate, the larger the file size. Audio actually uses its own codecs.

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Video Format Comparison - Flash Video Format - WMV Format - Quicktime - Real

Tony Karrer

In The Rise of Flash Video - Tom Green tells us: This is not to say QuickTime and Windows Media are dead technologies. WMV Format, Quicktime and Real either require a streaming server to achieve the effect or do not do as good of a job. It's not clear how true this is. And it also changes as codecs emerge.

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Understanding Video File Types: Codecs, Containers, and Outputs

TechSmith Camtasia

It gives you much smaller files sizes with minimal quality loss. The codec of your original video file is often determined by your video camera or screen recorder, which you may or may not have control over in your camera settings. Audio actually uses it’s own codecs. Compression is your friend!

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

CommLab India

When developing an eLearning course using rapid authoring tools, you should know which format is supported by the tool to import audio files, videos, and images. If the tool does not support the image, video, or audio format you want to import, you will have to waste time converting them into the required format.

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