Digital Video File Formats

By Internet Video Gal on Feb 19, 2008 in Digital Video Formats

Learning all the different digital video file formats can be a royal pain in the tush! I hear people complain all the time that this confusing alphabet soup makes them throw their hands up in frustration.

Do not despair!

It's not as hard as it seems. I've put together this 15 minute free video tutorial on digital video file formats. It covers all the basics and will teach you everything you need to know (and then some) to get your videos up and running on the web.

Here is part two of the free video tutorial on digital file formats.

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  1. 7 Comment(s)

  2. By Phillip Skinner on Mar 9, 2008 | Reply

    Hi thank you for this cool insight into making videos I've also signed up for more info so looking forward to finding out more video tricks and how-to's from you … it looks like you have been into this video making for quite some time going by that enormous system you showed in the clip wow … While I'm here have you seen this latest software Idea where you can use other folks video and get paid like an AdSense advert here you go looks cool to me….

    blinkx AdHoc rewards you for sharing videos. Next time you embed a video from a video-sharing site, simply run the embed code through blinkx AdHoc first to start making money. When you add the embedded video, it will have contextually relevant ads placed near or on it. If your viewers click on these ads, the advertiser pays blinkx, and blinkx will share 50% of that revenue with you. How does it work? http://adhoc.blinkx.com/

  3. By techproject on Mar 11, 2008 | Reply

    Great style

  4. By manolito mariano agustin on Jun 2, 2008 | Reply

    hi!
    i am confused with the High Definition standard, there is 720i. 720p, i know interlaced and progressive, but why there a lot of them? Please reply

    Thanks a lot

  5. By admin on Jun 26, 2008 | Reply

    Hi Phillip.

    blinkx adhoc sounds wonderful. Thanks for sharing that info. Many video sharing sites have similar programs.

    And yes dear, I HAVE been doing videos a very long time. Since before most of you were born!

    Thanks for visiting!
    Lorraine Grula

  6. By admin on Jun 26, 2008 | Reply

    Hi Manolito.

    Interlaced and progressive refer to the technical way in which the video picture is brought to the screen. The frames are interlaced together to form what appears to be one image. In all my years of producing video, this is not something I have ever really had to be concerned with except for having to de-interlace still frames in order to stop them from being jittery.

    The video file format shouldn't be affected by interlacing or progressive. It is a different issue.

    The file format a video is in will determine what kind of software you need in order to play it.

    Hope that helps.

    Thanks,
    Lorraine Grula

  7. By Flip Video Cameras on Aug 20, 2008 | Reply

    I am a member of a website that publishes all it's videos in mp4 format, which I don't seem to be able to watch on my PC either through Windows Media Player or Realplayer. Is there something I am doing wrong? Can I convert these videos into .wmv or .mpeg files which I *can* watch?

    Flip Video Camerass last blog post..Flip Video Software (Part 2)

  8. By admin on Oct 14, 2008 | Reply

    Hi

    I am just as confused as you are as to why you can not watch mpeg4 videos on your pc.

    I have both real player and windows media player on my pc and both programs will play an mpeg4.

    Now, windows media player says mpeg4 is not a recognized format, but then a dialogue box comes up and says, "do you want to try it anyway?" When I click yes, WMP opens up and plays the file.

    I am sorry I do not have a better answer for you.

    In my experience, video and computers sometimes do inexplicable things. Things that should work sometimes don't. This could be due to a file, or even a program, being corrupted.

    You might indeed wish to try converting the file. Try converting it to .wmv (windows media video) Just a few months ago, I downloaded some quicktime files that simply would not play on my Mac in my edit program (final cut), although quicktime is recognized by final cut. The files would play in quicktime player. So, to fix the problem, I opened them in QT and converted them to a dv stream. Then they slid into final cut just fine. I first tried converting them from quicktime to quicktime and that didn't work. (I know that sounds a bit odd, but I thought if the files were corrupt somehow that converting them into a NEW QT file would mend the corruption.)

    Anyway…sorry you are having difficulties. I'd like to be able to say that video and computers always play together nicely, but alas, sometimes they just don't!

    I hope this helps.

    Lorraine Grula

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