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What is the colour range of most videos?
Most videos are limited range i.e. luma goes from 16 to 235, and chroma from 16 to 240.
Unless expressly set, FFmpeg does not scale the range from one to another. Whatever the source is, that's the ...
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What it means "a royalty free alternative" to video/audio (WebM format)
It's a quite complex topic, but yes, when dealing with non-royalty-free technologies you are in some cases required to pay royalties to the patent holders, depending on your usage. This usually ...
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About Video Formats and prevention of download of videos
If you don't want your stuff to be stolen, don't put it on the internet
People need to be able to watch your video on their computers. For that purpose, it needs to be downloaded to their computers. ...
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Why can't my video play from where I drag the playback bar?
video1 has a very short keyframe interval - it has a keyframe every few frames. video2 doesn't. Some players have the ability to decode upto non-KF silently and start playing from seek point. If yours ...
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Is CPU speed important for uploading a youtube video
Sending your files to YouTube (once rendered and or exported) will be down to the upload speed of your internet service provide (ISP) / Broadband supplier. The faster the upload speed, the faster it ...
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How to find videos that have free reuse license types on the web?
You can do this is on YouTube by adding a filter under the "Features" header. E.g.:
Also found that Vimeo offers similar search functionality when you add filters on the right:
Specifically on Vimeo ...
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How do I setup a camera in a fixed position?
There's nothing wrong with using a WebCam instead of a camera, provided you have a long enough cable. There are USB extension chords that can give you a few extra feet, and USB extenders that can go ...
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How do I setup a camera in a fixed position?
Get a camera (not a webcam), any camera, and put it on a tripod. Make sure the camera has the approriate mount to put it on your tripod. If you have a camera without such mount, just prop it up ...
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Convert 29.970030 fps .mp4 to 29.970000
The definition of "29.97" is correctly 30 * (1000 / 1001), which is 29.97002997. That's what you have. I don't know why do you think you need exactly 29.97000, but it's probably a misunderstanding.
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How do I make a YouTube video with text-only?
You can create these easily in most video editing programs. For example, in iMovie (which is available on Apple devices), each of these is a Title. "Title" is what iMovie calls a page of text. So ...
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Request for Camcorder and Tripod Recommendations for Occasional Amatuer Usage, With Emphasis on Good Sound Quality
90% of good sound quality is mic placement. The remaining 90% is the microphone. The 90% that remains of that is the preamp. Because mic placement is so important, you either have to accept putting ...
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Template based video storage / online programmatic video editing tool?
As well as @ElderGeek's suggestion of ffmpeg, Adobe After effects can be used to generate bespoke video for the web. It can be fully scripted using Adobe's extendscript on the server and run as a ...
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How to choose the right bitrate, H.264 profile and level for Web Video presentation?
If you are looking to get the best possible quality, encode at the highest bitrates you can factoring file size / upload time.
Regardless of what you bitrate you transcode at; nearly all streaming ...
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Is this jump video edited (time reversed)?
By comparing the original 5 second scene, with the time reversed video, produced by kapwing reverse video online, it's apparent that the last one is the natural and realistic movement.
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What is this video technique called and is there software to automate it?
This technique is called jump-cutting, and while it isn't easily automated it can be done pretty quickly with keyboard shortcuts and pro editing software.
In Premiere Pro, for example:
Scrub through ...
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How do I make video tutorials of someone(s) working through a website on their computer?
Camtasia is probably the leading software for creating video tutorials, it has the ability to smooth mouse movements, the editor gives you the ability to add text, transitions and other effects as ...
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How to put a video inside text?
There are a ton of options.
The easiest one that can be done in any decent video editor, is preparing a transparent shape.
You are used to thinking about the text being the object.
But if you ...
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Is using codecs matter if Facebook re-encode all the uploaded videos?
If Facebook, YouTube and others video hosting sites re-encode all videos uploaded, is the codecs used still matter?
Both no and yes.
Technically, no, because they can handle most common formats and ...
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Best way to add subtitles to videos
1) Is probablly the easyest. You can download it from YouTube and merge it in Premiere Pro. Easyest way is to burn it in, so you wont have any struggles with other social media plattforms.
If you ...
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What it means "a royalty free alternative" to video/audio (WebM format)
It's worth noting in addition to @mcont's excellent answer, royalties for h.264 (the most popular encoder on the internet) are only applicable if you are charging viewers to watch, and then only when ...
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Should I rather be shooting 1080/50i or 720/50p for 25fps web use?
If you're mainly concerned about the staircasing, consider where the video will be watched. If interlaced video is shown on a display made for interlaced video, it appears ok. If you play it on a ...
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Is there an online video server that can show paneable extremely large videos?
With current technology no, you "can not"; and with more powerful technology it is a waste of resources.
You do not need to stream a gigapixel video, you need to stream a video, receive the new "...
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Compact Camera for nighttime live streaming?
You can use old(ish) Android phone to have all-in-one solution or you can use go-pro camera with laptop.
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Find a video and sounds
Checkout videoblocks. They are a subscription based stock footage site.
Here is a clip I found that is similar to what you are looking for.
Consider using my referal link to sign up for videoblocks.
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What are the best codecs and encoding options for a image sequence video?
I occasionally make a video from slide images. I find I get the best quality and compression by putting the images in the timeline in your preferred video editor (I use Vegas Pro 13), saving as a ...
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Convert 29.970030 fps .mp4 to 29.970000
This is most likely just a rounding error in the display of a floating point integer. Even if that is not the case, 0.00003 fps is one extra frame every nine and a half hours of video. If the software ...
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What PC software offers speeding up video & sound together at 20x+?
DaVinci Resolve from BlackMagic Design can do this, and you could easily do it with the free version, which has very generous limitations. If you decide to pay for the full version, it's a one-time ...
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What PC software offers speeding up video & sound together at 20x+?
Import your file into a Premiere Pro project.
Click right on the clip and select "New Sequence from Clip".
The sequence is created.
In that sequence, click right on the clip and choose "Speed" from ...
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