There are so many different video files and video container formats out there, it’s easy to lose track of them all. Most of the time, you can tell them apart rather easily, but what if they are named almost identically.
MP4 and MPEG-4 (or MPEG4) are two formats that are easily confused with each other. They seemingly only differ by two letters. Yet, there is more that differentiates those two entities.… Read the rest
One of the many advantages of Online-Convert.com is conversion across different file categories. There is more than just converting images or document from one format to the other!
That way, you have so many more possibilities. You can easily turn a video into an animated GIF or a presentation into a video. You can even extract text from a picture. For a more complete list, you can check this article about what’s possible with cross-conversion.… Read the rest
There are many reasons for why you need video conversion – especially in our modern, technological world. Today, we want to explore 5 of these reasons. And not only that! We will also show you why an online solution is oftentimes the better solution!
Some mobile phones, especially older ones, can not handle all videos and codecs.… Read the rest
Social Media is a great way to share your videos with your friends, family, and colleagues – and with the world. What we post on social media is, depending on the privacy settings of our profiles, visible for everyone. Everyone can see our pictures, read our statuses, watch our videos. Hence why some things should better not be shared on social media.
Want to share them on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter still?… Read the rest
When you are editing and saving videos, you might have seem them before; numbers with a little p behind them. Even when you are just a casual YouTube watcher, you must have seen them before when checking the quality settings of the video you are watching. This already gives you a hint for what these numbers stand for: they are display or video resolutions.
The most common video resolutions you will come across today are 480p, 720p, 1080p or 2160p.… Read the rest
Animated GIFs, images that loop clips like a video, are very popular. They are used to express different moods or react to posts on social media or elsewhere online. They capture short sequences of a video or animate still images to loop after one another.
Sadly, animated GIFs are not supported by all social media platforms yet. Facebook and Instagram, for example, disable the animation. If you upload an animated GIF to either of them, all you will be able to see is the first frame of the image.… Read the rest
YouTube is undoubtedly the number one video platform today, nearly unrivaled. And yet, there are other platforms out there in the web that offer the possibility to watch, upload and earn money with videos.
Which platform is the best for you to market you videos or find the right ones to watch? With this comparison of YouTube and probably its biggest rival, Vimeo, we will shed some light on this. Maybe it is worth to stray from the obvious choice of YouTube and consider Vimeo instead.… Read the rest
Google has managed to evolve from a simple search engine on the internet, to a powerful media mogul. Hey, to google was even added to the dictionary in the year 2006, making it an official word in not only the English language. Thus, it’s only natural that many people use it each and every day to find information on the internet.
However, who feeds Google with search terms randomly is often times confronted with paid ads, unanswered forum entries for their questions or other inadequate search results.… Read the rest
Instant messaging is, slowly, replacing not only calls and e-mails, but also the native text massaging ability of modern phones. And the choice you have nowadays is huge. Next to the top messengers provided, there are many apps that allow you to send messages to anyone that has the app installed as well and shared their contact data with you.
Excluding the messenger from Facebook, there are two big messenger apps, that compete for the user’s attention: WhatsApp & Telegram.… Read the rest
Ever since WhatsApp was bought by Facebook – and also before – the messaging app has been regarded as a double-edged sword. While WhatsApp has many critics, there is still a multitude of people that use the messaging service to chat privately, across the company, or create group chats for their families.
Whatever your stand on WhatsApp may be, we have gathered a few helpful tips & tricks on how to use the service even better – for those that do.… Read the rest
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