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There are a lot of different types of graphics formats. The most common are JPEG, GIF, BMP, TIFF, and PNG. PNG files are small compressed image files designed to be used on the internet. What makes them different is they support an alpha channel and has a better compression with fewer artifacts. What does this mean? Let’s take a look.
Something so necessary and so full of math. Math can be fun, and at least in this form of math you can always use a calculator, and it is always division.
H.264 is one of hose formats that has a lot built into it and is therefore rather complex and confusing. To clarify on the title the H.264 format is actually a part of MPEG-4 (MP4). MPEG itself is not a format, but rather a series of methods used to compress audio and video. Just a brief clarification on that. MPEG-2 has 11 different parts in its methods. Part 2 is used for video compression, while Part 7 is more commonly referred to as a MP3 file.
Editing can be a lot of fun. Some people don’t think so, but I find it to be fun. What does this have to do with anything? Not much, but the topic for today is dealing with video in editing software. Don’t expect me to explain how to edit, at least not now. Today we will discuss rendering and how to avoid doing more rendering then needed.
Quicktime is actually a pretty incredible piece of software. We have already discussed the basics of what a quicktime file is, now we will find out how to discover what format your video is and what that means for you.
Perhaps the least understood of all video formats is the notorious quicktime MOV. There is more to them a simple file type. One of my least favorite things to hear in regards to video is people telling me to just get them a quicktime. A Quicktime (.MOV) file is called a wrapper (or container). To explain a wrapper simply think of a jar. All jars do the same thing, but not all jars hold the same content. This is what a quicktime file does, it holds different types of video and audio.
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