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Just to let you all know, any video files that have been uploaded from November 2021 and later, will be encoded with the following extra commands:

-map_metadata -1 -fflags +bitexact -flags:v +bitexact -flags:a +bitexact

This reduces the amount of exif...

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Fail

Well I've just noticed I messed up Jellyfish and Sintel...

Jellyfish has 2 different videos, they're both from the original Jellyfish video but different 10 second segments from it.
And Sintel isn't even the correct dimensions!
Instead of 1920x1080 it's,...

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This is just a random page containing my results from playing around with AV1 settings in FFmpeg.
I am using a short 10 second clip from the Blender open movie: Spring

The initial settings I'm using are:
-c:v libaom-av1 -cpu-used 2 -crf 55 -row-mt 1

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New AV1

That's right, AV1 is starting to become available for use!
Go here to find them!
Granted I'm a little slow at actually getting them on here... but better late than never as they always say.

But anyway, you should hopefully start to see (slowly) AV1 test...

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Video to GIF

Ever wanted to convert a video into a GIF?!
Probably not... but I'm going to show you how anyway!

So let's begin,

(Warning, the media on this page comes to 66MB and the majority is of GIF files, your PC may slow down.)

I'll be using the 4k versio...

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