Clideo Alternatives for Quick Edits: Watermarks and Limits
Clideo's free plan adds a watermark and uploads your file. A dated table maps each Clideo tool to an alternative by watermark, account, upload and cap.
2026-10-14 · 10 min read
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Practical notes on working with video files: codecs, compression, and getting a clip to fit where it needs to go.
Add a Demo GIF to a GitHub README That Loads Fast
Add a GIF to a GitHub README the right way: the size limit from GitHub's docs, settings that keep code readable, and measured sizes for three demo types.
2026-10-13 · 11 min read
FFmpeg Compress Video: The Command, Flag by Flag
Compress video with FFmpeg: the base command, what CRF and preset do, resizing, target-size bitrate caps, and the output sizes I measured on a test clip.
2026-10-12 · 12 min read
Ezgif Alternatives for Video to GIF: What Each Does Better
Ezgif is good at editing GIFs. Here are the alternatives worth using for quality, recording, optimising or converting video to GIF without an upload.
2026-10-09 · 11 min read
Compress Video for Canvas: Fit Your Course Upload Limit
Canvas has no single video limit. Find the one that applies to your upload path, then compress or trim a presentation to land under it on the first try.
2026-10-08 · 12 min read
Convert HEVC to H.264: Quality, File Size and HDR
HEVC to H.264 is always a re-encode, and HDR phone clips need extra care. What gets lost, what the file size does, and how to convert without uploading.
2026-10-07 · 11 min read
HandBrake Alternatives for Compressing and Converting Video
The best HandBrake alternative depends on why you are leaving: FFmpeg, LosslessCut, Shutter Encoder, Avidemux or a browser tool. Sorted by reason.
2026-10-06 · 11 min read
4K Video File Size per Minute: iPhone, GoPro and Drone
How many MB is a minute of 4K? One formula, sourced bitrates for drones, uploads and ProRes, and what 30 vs 60 fps and a 1080p export do to the size.
2026-10-02 · 12 min read
Compress a Zoom Recording Without Blurring the Slides
Shrink a Zoom recording without softening slide text. Which Zoom setting bloats files, what to change next time, and how to compress the file you have now.
2026-10-01 · 10 min read
HandBrake vs FFmpeg: Same Engines, Different Jobs
HandBrake builds on FFmpeg's libraries and the same x264 and x265 encoders. The differences are defaults, presets, queues and lossless cuts. Pick by job.
2026-09-30 · 10 min read
FFmpeg Commands Cheat Sheet: Every Flag Explained
The exact FFmpeg commands behind trim, compress, convert, GIF, MP3, mute, crop, rotate, resize and speed, with every flag explained and what it costs you.
2026-09-28 · 13 min read
OBS MKV to MP4: Remux It, Don't Re-Encode It
Turn an OBS MKV into an MP4 with File > Remux Recordings: no quality loss, done in seconds. Plus auto remux, Hybrid MP4, and when a re-encode is worth it.
2026-09-25 · 11 min read
iPhone Videos Not Playing on PC? Three Ways to Fix It
Your iPhone video isn't broken. It's HEVC, and Windows needs a codec to play it. Three fixes: the codec extension, converting the file, or a phone setting.
2026-09-24 · 11 min read
Lower Resolution or Bitrate? What to Cut First
Four settings shrink a video: resolution, bitrate, frame rate and length. Which to cut first depends on the footage. A scorecard for five content types.
2026-09-23 · 11 min read
Transcribe Video Privately: What Leaves Your Machine
Every way to transcribe video to text sends something somewhere. What crosses the wire at each stage, what to never send, and how to keep it to audio only.
2026-09-22 · 10 min read
Compress Video for X: Under the Upload Limits
X's video size limit is rarely why an upload fails. Real limits, checked against X's docs, plus the one encode that clears length, codec and frame rate.
2026-09-21 · 10 min read
Container vs Codec: MP4, MOV, MKV and H.264 Decoded
MP4, MOV and MKV are boxes; H.264 and H.265 sit inside. A plain-English decoder for seven terms, and why rewrapping is instant and converting is not.
2026-09-18 · 11 min read
Free Video Tools: What "Free" Actually Costs You
Free video tools charge in watermarks, accounts, uploads or size caps. A dated table of seven tools, ours included, shows which cost each takes and why.
2026-09-17 · 9 min read
Video Speed Changes Explained: Pitch, Judder, File Size
Changing video speed re-times the frames and stretches the audio. What 0.5x, 1.5x and 4x do to duration, frame rate, pitch and file size, with the math.
2026-09-16 · 10 min read
Remove Audio From Video: Mute Without Re-Encoding
Drop the audio stream and copy the video untouched. What muting really saves in file size, when to mute instead of cut, and how to do it in your browser.
2026-09-15 · 10 min read
MP3 Bitrate: 128 vs 192 vs 320 kbps Explained
What MP3 bitrate really buys you: megabytes per hour at every tier, when 320 kbps is wasted, why re-encoding costs twice, and what to pick for speech.
2026-09-14 · 11 min read
Extract Frames From Video: PNG or JPG, and the Exact Frame
Pull a still out of any video: which format to save it as, why the frame looks softer than the video, and how to hit an exact moment rather than near it.
2026-09-11 · 12 min read
Compress Video for Google Drive Before Uploading
Drive takes a 5 TB file and then builds its own preview stream. How to compress video for Google Drive so the version people watch is the one you chose.
2026-09-10 · 10 min read
Sideways Video? Fix Rotation Without Re-Encoding
A sideways clip is usually a rotation flag your player ignored, not broken footage. How to tell which fix you need, and when metadata beats a re-encode.
2026-09-09 · 11 min read
Crop vs Resize Video: Which One Do You Need?
Crop removes pixels and changes the ratio. Resize keeps every pixel and changes the scale. Here's how to tell which operation your video actually needs.
2026-09-08 · 10 min read
Video Aspect Ratios: 16:9, 9:16, 1:1 and 4:5 Sizes
Video aspect ratios decoded: what ratio, resolution and orientation each mean, the pixel sizes for 16:9, 9:16, 1:1 and 4:5, and what changing one costs.
2026-09-07 · 13 min read
Are Online Video Converters Safe? What to Check
Are online video converters safe? Two very different risks hide behind that question. Here is how to tell them apart, and how to check any tool yourself.
2026-09-04 · 12 min read
Split a Long Video Into Parts, in Your Browser
Split a long video into parts without uploading it. Measured: where lossless cuts really land, why parts look like they overlap, and how to fix it.
2026-09-03 · 12 min read
How to Make a High-Quality GIF From Video
GIF quality is decided by 256 colours. Measured exports showing what a generated palette and the right dither do, plus a settings recipe per clip type.
2026-09-02 · 12 min read
WebM vs MP4: Which One Should You Keep?
WebM is smaller on a web page you control and unreadable in most editors. Where it breaks, what a matched-quality test measured, when a remux is enough.
2026-09-01 · 13 min read
Resize Video for Instagram Reels: 1080x1920 Fast
The Instagram Reels video size everyone quotes is 1080x1920, but the ratio is what Instagram enforces. Crop, pad, safe zones, and the resize itself.
2026-08-31 · 12 min read
Compress Video for Text Message: MMS vs iMessage
Compress video for text message the right way: find which pipe it takes, MMS, iMessage or RCS, the target size for each, and when not to bother at all.
2026-08-28 · 14 min read
Screen Recording Too Big? Why, and How to Shrink It
Screen recordings get huge because recorders pick a bitrate for motion, not a static screen. Why, plus the settings that shrink them without mushy text.
2026-08-27 · 14 min read
Extract Audio From Video: Copy the Stream or Make an MP3?
Pull audio out of any video without installing anything: what codec is inside your MP4, when to copy the stream instead of re-encoding, and which bitrate.
2026-08-26 · 11 min read
MOV to MP4 Without Re-Encoding: Rewrap or Convert?
Most MOV files already hold H.264 video, so the fix is a rewrap, not a conversion. How to tell which case you have, and convert it without an upload.
2026-08-25 · 11 min read
H.264 vs H.265: Which Codec Should You Export?
H.265 makes smaller files, H.264 plays everywhere. Where HEVC quietly fails, what the half-the-bitrate claim really means, and which one to export.
2026-08-21 · 13 min read
Compress Video for WhatsApp: Under the Send Limit
How to reduce video size for WhatsApp so its encoder has nothing left to damage: the real limit, the document path, and the resolution that survives.
2026-08-20 · 11 min read
Compress Video Without Losing Quality: What's Real
Compress video without losing quality means two different things. The difference between truly lossless and visually lossless, and which CRF gets there.
2026-08-19 · 12 min read
Edit Video Without Uploading It Anywhere
Most online video editors take your file first. Here is how a browser runs FFmpeg locally instead, what it costs in speed, and which tools genuinely do it.
2026-08-18 · 12 min read
Compress a Video to an Exact File Size
Turn a target file size into a bitrate with one line of arithmetic, see what each budget can carry at 8, 10, 16, 25 and 50 MB, and hit it in your browser.
2026-08-17 · 12 min read
Video to GIF for Slack: Sizes That Actually Post
Video to GIF for Slack, done properly: what Slack's help pages limit, how fps and width drive the file size, and three measured exports of one clip.
2026-08-14 · 14 min read
Compress Video for Email: Get Under the 25 MB Cap
Gmail, Outlook, iCloud and Yahoo attachment limits, checked today, why a 24 MB file bounces off a 25 MB cap, and how to hit a target in your browser.
2026-08-13 · 13 min read
Compress Video for Discord: Hit 10 MB Without Nitro
Discord's free upload limit is 10 MB. Work out the bitrate your clip can afford, pick the resolution and CRF that hit it, and compress it in your browser.
2026-08-12 · 11 min read
GIF vs MP4: Why GIFs Are 10x Larger
GIF is a 1987 image format doing a video's job. The mechanics of why GIFs balloon, what Google measured, and when a GIF is still the right call.
2026-08-09 · 2 min read
Lossless Video Trimming: How Keyframes Work
Why lossless trims snap to keyframes, why re-encoding cuts exactly, and how to choose between instant stream-copy and frame-precise trimming.
2026-08-09 · 2 min read
Video Compression, by the Numbers
File size is bitrate times duration. The arithmetic of video compression, what CRF actually does, and realistic size expectations.
2026-08-09 · 2 min read
