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Technical Deep Dives··8 min readEncode Once, Compare Three Video Formats on Your Own Footage
Every codec guide quotes an efficiency number averaged over a test set that is not your video. Motion, detail, cuts and flat areas all move the result. Encoding the same clip three ways settles it, provided you read the ratios rather than the raw sizes and compare the pictures rather than only the numbers.
Technical Deep Dives··10 min readWhy Red Text and Fine Edges Fall Apart in Video
Video keeps brightness at full resolution and discards three quarters of the colour samples. That is why saturated text smears, thin coloured lines dissolve, and a cutout edge picks up a halo the still image never had. No quality setting undoes it.