---
title: 'The Blog'
url: 'https://test-videos.co.uk/posts'
markdown: 'https://test-videos.co.uk/posts.md'
date: '2026-10-01'
description: "The Blog it's where the magic things belong"
---

# The Blog

## it's where the magic things belong

   01 *Oct*   
#### [Video to GIF](https://test-videos.co.uk/posts/video-to-gif)

 ![](https://test-videos.co.uk/images/b/6/3/b/3/b63b3caa025032f85f804c1d9aeeeb2443cd4b24-palette.png) 

 *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...

[Continue reading...](https://test-videos.co.uk/posts/video-to-gif)

   01 *Oct*   
#### [Updated Uploads](https://test-videos.co.uk/posts/updated-uploads)

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...

[Continue reading...](https://test-videos.co.uk/posts/updated-uploads)

   01 *Oct*   
#### [Fail](https://test-videos.co.uk/posts/fail)

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

Jellyfish has 2 different videos, they're both from the original [Jellyfish](https://jell.yfish.us/) video but different 10 second segments from it.
And Sintel isn't even the correct dimensions!
Instead of 1920x1080 it's,...

[Continue reading...](https://test-videos.co.uk/posts/fail)

   18 *Nov*   
#### [Playing Around with AV1](https://test-videos.co.uk/posts/playing-around-with-av1)

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](https://studio.blender.org/films/spring/)

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

... [Continue reading...](https://test-videos.co.uk/posts/playing-around-with-av1)

   01 *Sep*   
#### [New AV1](https://test-videos.co.uk/posts/new-av1)

That's right, AV1 is starting to become available for use!
[Go here to find them!](https://test-videos.co.uk/bigbuckbunny/mp4-av1)
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...

[Continue reading...](https://test-videos.co.uk/posts/new-av1)

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## Navigation

- Previous: [Sintel](https://test-videos.co.uk/sintel.md)
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- Children:
  - [H.264 Encoding In FFmpeg](https://test-videos.co.uk/posts/a-quick-h264-guide.md)
  - [Making the Big Buck Bunny MP4s](https://test-videos.co.uk/posts/bigbuckbunny-mp4.md)
  - [Fail](https://test-videos.co.uk/posts/fail.md)
  - [My FFmpeg Setup](https://test-videos.co.uk/posts/my-ffmpeg-setup.md)
  - [New AV1](https://test-videos.co.uk/posts/new-av1.md)
  - [Playing Around with AV1](https://test-videos.co.uk/posts/playing-around-with-av1.md)
  - [Updated Uploads](https://test-videos.co.uk/posts/updated-uploads.md)
  - [Video to GIF](https://test-videos.co.uk/posts/video-to-gif.md)