Working with digital video can be a pain. The challenge is that almost every piece of video is expressed through a different codec (which is just short for “compression/decompression”). The codec is the mathematical code that shrinks (compresses) all the full frames of video data into something small enough to fit onto a piece of magnetic tape or a data card, or to swim through the internet without clogging up the pipes; then, on the other end, it unshrinks (decompresses) it in a quick way so it can be watched. [click to continue…]
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