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Understanding Video File Types: Codecs, Containers, and Outputs

TechSmith Camtasia

Or, cut out the middleman and skip having to determine an output all together by sending your video directly to a cloud platform like Google Drive or YouTube. MP4 works well for videos posted on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. MOV (QuickTime Movie) stores high-quality video, audio, and effects.

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How To Edit Video: Reducing File Size

TechSmith Camtasia

You may want to reduce file size to more easily send to your co-workers, or complete your upload to YouTube quicker. Because of this, MP4 is very popular for web-based delivery including YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Other common video file types include: MOV (Apple Quicktime Movie).AVI FLV (Flash Video Format).

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M is for Media

Clive on Learning

So, I took the presentation on The story of the 30-minute masters that I created last week in Articulate and decided to re-create it in a movie format that would work for both YouTube and the iPod (MP4). I thought about Captivate, but that only exports Flash movies (SWFs). I couldn't do this with Articulate.

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