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Why does editing a video by Adobe Premiere Pro more than once decreases its quality?
There is a big difference between
saving your project, then returning to the project to do some additional changes, such as brightness adjustments, then exporting a media file, and
exporting a media ...
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Does repeatedly saving a video degrade its quality?
MP4 isn't an ideal format for intermediate saves. If you know you'll be re-opening the file, save it as losslessly as practicable, and use MP4 only for the final output.
That said, depending on the ...
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What is the best way to make Windows compatible with .MOV format?
.MOV is a container format, not a video format. As such it can contain media in any number of 'tracks' of audio, video, subtitles etc. In particular, video tracks may use any supported codec, not just ...
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Replacement for Windows Live Movie Maker for combining images and audio (Windows 10)?
It can be made directly on the YouTube website. Look at the "Upload" page at the bottom-right corner:
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How do I use the transitions in Davinci Resolve 17?
You drag the transitions from the Toolbox in the Effects Library (Click the Effects Library at the top left of the Resolve interface if you don't see the Toolbox) over the two video clips.
One thing ...
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How do I edit a video clip without increasing size?
The file gets bigger because the encoder struggles to keep the quality of the resulting file as close to the same as the original as possible. AviDemux allows you to cut out parts of a video file ...
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How to manage exports when editing lots of videos?
The straight forward way to go about it is to use Adobe Premiere. It's probably the most widely used video editing software currently (read: a lot of third party plugins, massive amount of free ...
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How to manage exports when editing lots of videos?
I would suggest you take a look at DaVinci Resolve 14 and see if it can cover what you need. It depends on what editing you need to do as there aren't much in the way of filters available in the free ...
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Recommendations on Video Editors similar to Movie Maker
Avid just came out with a free version of Media Composer, looks very capable. "It's a fact that over 95% of all mainstream movies released in 2016 were edited on Media Composer. And so were most TV ...
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Easier Way To Narrate Over Paused Frame?
There is a simple Video editing suite called Camtasia.It is not free but you can try out the trial,If you like it you can purchase it.
It has an "Extend Frame" feature (also available in 7th version) ...
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Software to create videos from multiple songs
With ffmpeg, on Windows, create a batch file AudiotoVid.cmd
for %%A in (*.mp3 *.m4a *.wav *.flac *.ape) do ffmpeg -i "%%A" -i "c:\path\to\image.png" -map 1:v -map 0:a -pix_fmt yuv420p -shortest -f ...
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Export EDL from Movie Maker WLMP (Windows Live Media Project)
A WLMP file can be opened as an xml. Save a copy of the project changing the extension to XML.
Convert XML to CSV using one of various free converters available online. Open the CSV file as a ...
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Decimating files in Moviemaker
You can use ffmpeg, a free command-line tool, to do this:
ffmpeg -i in.mp4 -vf "select=not(mod(n\,30)),setpts=N/FRAME_RATE/TB" -r 30 out.mp4
-vf specifies a video filterchain i.e. a sequence of ...
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Does repeatedly saving a video degrade its quality?
Yes. By definition, any time you save an audio or video file using a LOSSY compression scheme, you will lose something (by definition).
Now, modern codecs have been getting better at minimizing ...
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Does repeatedly saving a video degrade its quality?
If the codec is not lossless, such as Quicktime Animation Codec; true lossless, then yes.
But if you are using a good encoder, I would gather even after 100 generations of degredation would you be ...
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Does repeatedly saving a video degrade its quality?
Yes. Every time you "save" video in video-editor, you will re-render it with codec. Most codecs lose some video information for compression. So, every time you will lose some more information.
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Why has my game video, captured with OBS/Win10 DVR, a black screen in iMovie/WindowsMovieMaker?
The variable frame rate is all that stands out. Save future videos with constant frame rate. As for these ones, transcode using ffmpeg* to CFR MP4s:
ffmpeg -i currentvideo.mp4 -c:a copy -crf 16 -r 30 ...
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How can I insert a censor bar into a mp4 movie?
Any decent video editing software will allow you to specify bitrate and resolution in export settings. Sony Vegas Pro or Movie Studio, Adobe Premiere Elements, as should Cyberlink Powerdirector among ...
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Issues with uncompressed video in edting software
If you have a high-end i7 PC desktop, you probably have the infrastructure to set up a high-performance RAID that can handle your I/O bandwidth requirements. 10GB/min = 167MB/sec, which a really good ...
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Issues with uncompressed video in edting software
The limitation is certainly the disk I/O, which at 10GB/min is outside the capabilities of all but very high-end disk subsystems.
It's generally true that you should work at the highest bit rate and ...
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How can I overlap content in Windows Movie Maker?
There's no native support for any sort of "Picture-in-Picture" functionality in Windows Movie Maker, so unfortunately, what you are asking cannot be done in WMM.
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Producing Portrait orientation stop motion videos
This is most likely a problem related to the app you are using to create/view these stop-motion videos. If you have portrait-orientated pictures, creating a video accordingly is simply a matter of ...
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