Uploaded July 2009 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Part 4 of the Anonymous Propaganda Video Tutorial series.
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This video teaches you the Basics about Encoding, transcoding, Resolution, File Formats, Codecs, Aspect Ratio Interlaced and Progessive
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Hello Anonymous and welcome to our additional fourth tutorial unite. This unite will contain a short summary of information on encoding and an overview on the most used codecs on the web. It is not vital to know all of this, but you will encounter situations where it will be necessary to change the format, container, codec or aspect ratio of a video file.
There are many reasons why this is sometimes necessary.
Most commonly because your editing tool does not support the video file you want to edit, or you have to reduce your file in size to upload it in a reasonable time frame to the tubes.
First we will teach you how to know and recognize the different Containers, codecs and aspect ratios, then we will introduce you to the available tools and show you how to successfully encode video files for your needs.
First we look at the major container types or file formats (go for standards)
MPG
There are two versions. MPG1 and MPG2
It is a standardized format
It uses a medium file size and possesses a good compression, which delivers a good quality
Naturally MPG2 delivers a better quality than MPG1
MP4
Is also a standardized file format, but delivers a much smaller file size.
It also possesses a very good compression and delivers in very good quality.
Newer video camera models use this format mostly by default. Only backside of this format is that it requires a lot of cpu power to decode the video and play it.
AVI
Is a Microsoft developed format and is big in its file size which is a result from the low compression.
The quality it delivers ranges from ok to good.
It is a format sometimes used by older video cameras.
MOV
Here we have a format developed by apple.
It is similar to MP4 and can hold MPEG4 encoded information.
It is used in the semi professional field.
WMV
Is another format developed by Microsoft and also has similarities to MP4, but only proprietary.
Due to the very good compression the quality is good while the file size is small.
FLV
Developed by adobe, this format requires the flash player.
None the less, it has a good compression, small file size and has a good quality for flash animations.
For regular film material the quality ranges from low to ok.
RM
Is a proprietary format developed by real networks.
It is not a very common format anymore, but the latest version holds similarities to the MP4 format.
We shall continue with the most used codecs. But before you might get confused, let me explain to you the difference between file formats and codecs.
(transcript incomplete due to youtube description limit)