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Video formats

The term video format is also loosely interchangeable with video codec. There is a difference, but for the sake of simplicity, think of them as the same thing or at least that formats are containers that can hold different codecs.

A container is a package that stores video along with audio data. It is common for a video file format to be referred to as a container. Containers have extensions such as .mp4, .avi, and .mov.

A codec is a program or software within the container that encodes and decodes the video signals. It stores the video signals and then processes those signals when a video is played.

A video container can store videos of multiple formats, although not all codecs and containers are perfectly compatible. When a video is recorded or played, a device is configured to choose appropriate codecs and containers by default, so you only need to choose the container/file format.

Uncompressed video files are extremely large, which means they are unwieldy...

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Bruce G. Macbryde, a Final Cut Pro trainer with 20+ years of experience, spanning from the original release in 1999 to the latest version. He served as a sales manager for Australian Authorized Apple distributors (1998-2004) and later as a training manager for Apple-developed software through 2009. He established Wedding Media Productions in 2004, a wedding video business in Sydney, Australia. Bruce is a YouTube creator for the VideoTutors channel, with 500+ video tutorials. He began teaching marketing at NSW TAFE in the early 1980s, specializing in technology and business software such as Microsoft Office, Adobe Pagemaker, and Photoshop during a 7-year stint in New Zealand.
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