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Almost everyone has a smartphone by now, and many use their phone’s camera not only to take photos but to record short or longer videos for themselves, social media, or even YouTube.
For a start, a smartphone camera can be enough to record your videos. What if you want to become more professional though? There are a few things you should know about recording with a video camera, DSLR, and also your phone.… Read the rest
Imagine bracing high winds to get that once-in-a-lifetime video of your favorite outdoor adventure, but when you upload it to YouTube for the world to see, the video quality isn’t as good as it should be. That just makes you want to spit out some colorful words, right?
This is a real issue. Some folks complain about YouTube playing their videos at worse quality than what they see when they play the video on their computer.… Read the rest
Don’t you just hate it when Mother Nature won’t stop howling while you’re shooting video outdoors? You’re out there in the park with your family and all the camera picks up are just the rumbling of the wind. Facetiming and Skyping anyone on a windy day is no fun also. The wind makes your words unintelligible and it’s just frustrating.
Since we have no means to tell Mother Nature to stop what she’s doing, let’s just focus on the stuff that we can do.… Read the rest
When you have a family that won’t stop doing wondrous things, you just can’t help but wanting to immortalized those moments. Taking pictures is obviously a good starting point, but for truly capturing the moments, taking videos is the better choice.
A good family video camera should be light and affordable. It also must have a reliable autofocus so when you’re shooting moving kids running around or any kind of moving objects, the image will still be sharp.… Read the rest
When you download video files, often times the files will have .mkv or .mp4 extensions. As a matter of fact, it seems that these two are the dominant file types where ever you look. What’s with these two? Are they dominating the video world because they’re that good? How do these two compare?
First, let it be clear and both MP4 (MPEG-4 Part 14) and MKV (Matroska Video) are NOT video compression formats.… Read the rest
On Instagram, you can not only display all your favorite shots and photos, but also short videos. We are not talking about IGTV or Instagram stories here, but about your actual Instagram profile, where you can upload videos with a length of up to 1 minute.
When adding a photo or video clip to your profile, however, they are often clipped into a square format. A video, however, usually has other dimensions.… Read the rest
Once upon a time, when HTML4 still ruled the land of interwebs, embedding a video to a webpage was like a gamble. There’s no way to be sure that the person viewing the page will be able to see the video. The main reason was that playing video on a webpage required a third-party plugin — Flash.
The big problem with Flash was it was a security risk and also crashed a lot, so some people chose not to install it.… Read the rest
Instagram’s newest feature, Instagram TV, is off to a very good start. Many brands, influencer, and even casual users have made use of IGTV to engage with their fans, followers, and friends.
Check out all you need to know about IGTV.
Editing a video for IGTV is difficult though if you haven’t recorded it in the needed, portrait-mode format. Don’t worry, Online Convert got your back! In this article or rather tutorial, we will show you how to rotate your video to make it IGTV-ready!… Read the rest
If a picture can tell a thousand words, does that mean a video can tell a million words? Is that the reason why online videos are so popular these days? Oh well, the actual numbers don’t matter. What matters now is how important is online video today and what is the future of online video?
With high-speed internet getting more and more readily available across the globe, streaming is going to grow even bigger.… Read the rest
A study from 2017 showed that Instagram is on the rise when it comes to social media. The popular image sharing app has no less than 800 million users with 500 million of those using the service on a daily basis.
To stay in those top spots Instagrams resides at the moment, they roll out new concepts and ideas regularly. By now, almost everyone is aware of and has adapted to the Snapchat-style stories, for example.… Read the rest