4Understanding Audio/Video Technology

Producing professional videos for YouTube requires an understanding of the audio and video technology that YouTube uses. The more you know about the technology, the more appropriate and better-looking videos you can create.

It’s important to understand not just the technology used by YouTube, but also other audio/video production technologies. For example, what video file format do you want to use when shooting your videos? What file format is best for editing? Which file formats does YouTube support for uploading? Read on to get smarter about all this.

Understanding Compression

Key to all video file formats is the concept of file compression. That’s because raw, uncompressed video files are extremely large; ...

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