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Understanding Video File Types: Codecs, Containers, and Outputs

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While the word “compression” can conjure images of pixelated video, the process is both necessary and efficient with modern digital cameras. It gives you much smaller file sizes with minimal quality loss. In order to compress a video, your file must also have a corresponding codec. Containers (file extensions).

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Frame Rate: A Beginner’s Guide

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Essentially, it was a series of still images (one per page) that, when you flipped the pages quickly, would appear to animate or move. All video, whether digital or old-school film, is simply a series of still images that, when viewed in order at a certain speed, give the appearance of motion. Each image is a frame.

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Understanding Video File Types: Codecs, Containers, and Outputs

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In January we posted about image file types. While there is a plethora of video file types, which consist of codecs and containers, choosing the right one doesn’t have to be complicated … but it certainly can be. It gives you much smaller files sizes with minimal quality loss.

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Frame Rate: A Beginner’s Guide

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Remember those cool little flip books where a pad of paper had an image on every page, and when you flipped through the pages quickly, the image would appear to animate and move? Whether digital or old-school film, video is a series of still images that, when viewed in order at a certain speed, give the appearance of motion.

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The Ultimate Video Marketing Playbook (2021)

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Create a weekly live stream. But even if you don’t have a live stream, you can still follow our video content strategy. One TechSmith live stream gets: Posted on YouTube Added to our podcast feed Created into a blog post Cut into clips for social media Created into social graphics. It all starts with a pillar video.

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Tips for Adding Visuals to Your Social Media

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For example, here at TechSmith, we have completely changed how we serve up tutorial content. Prior to Facebook video advertising, here at TechSmith we hosted all tutorial content solely on our website and YouTube. Because of this, at TechSmith, we recently made a decision to start using video more on our social media channels.

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Video Statistics, Habits, and Trends You Need To Know [New Research]

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TechSmith conducted research to learn more about people’s viewing habits and preferences around instructional and informational videos. The TechSmith Video Viewer research provides unique insights into when, why, and how people engage with informational and instructional video content. No time to read the whole guide?