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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 gives you much smaller file sizes with minimal quality loss. In order to compress a video, your file must also have a corresponding codec. The codec of your original video file is often determined by your camera or screen recorder, which you may or may not have control over in your camera settings.

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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. Protection One of the specific questions I was asked was around caching and protection of the movie.

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

CommLab India

AVI: (Audio Video Interleaved) It supports both audio and video output with high-quality and a heavy file size, and can play in any player such as VLC and Windows Media KM player. MOV: (QuickTime Movie) MOV is a popular video format file, originally developed by Apple Inc.

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