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obstinatecondolement · 3 months ago

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I think I might finally be (kind of) starting to understand some of the finer details of A/V concepts that have been a solid wall between me and troubleshooting tech-related vidding problems historically.

#I'm a very monkey-pulling-levers type vidder #and asking for help or trying to research things have not always aided my understanding At All #so I've just had to sort of try various solutions I encounter by rote and hope for the best #but I think I (kind of) get it better now??#I know what the difference between containers and codecs is #and what remuxing is and how it is not the same thing as converting #I'm ngl I am still very lost in the weeds regarding the difference between encoding and reencoding #and what the difference between reencoding something vs transencoding it is #and lots of other things #but like I think I know enough that it's easier to understand why things go wrong and how to fix them?#I had a problem with pretty narsty artifacting in my timeline playback and the audio track not getting added at all #and I tried a bunch of things before reencoding my source to a newer codec #and along the way learned how to find what bit depth and chroma subsampling a file was #which has always been pretty fucking mysterious to me and I've just winged it with default settings on my project properties #like it took an embarrassingly long time for me to realise I could see what the resolution of a video was in the metadata #and I think that only clicked because I was fucking around with the metadata of audio files for podfic #so this is all very basic stuff to people my age who have been vidding since the early 00s #but it's essentially dark magic to me #one of the many reasons I wish there were more vidding tutorials and primers in the 'fanwork research & reference guides' tag on ao3 tbh #because not everyone is on discord or brave enough to look a fool on discord

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