Questions tagged [video]
Video is series of still images played back at high speed to give the appearance of something moving.
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Why is my iphone storage filling up with videos after everything has been backed up to icloud?
Ok so basically I shoot a lot of 10 bit 4k video from filmic pro on my 13 pro for youtube. The footage has been adding up and my phone is now 215/256 gb with 186 of those being the photos app. The ...
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Do Photos and Videos always 4K when using DPI Scaling on a 4K External monitor?
I am really curious if I make my text bigger on my Dell 4K U4320Q by using DPI scaling to change 3200 x1800 from 3840 x 2160 if Videos and photos will continue to use the full resolution. Examples of ...
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Running out of space on iPhone 13 Pro Max - How do you backup Cinematic Mode videos so they can be edited later?
How do you backup Cinematic Mode videos so they can be edited (with all Cinematic mode features) later?
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Sync Front and rear Video
I am using the trial version of Final Cut Pro (10.5.4), and am tearing my hair out trying to sync two videos.
The situation is that I have a front and rear camera in a vehicle. These cameras are not ...
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Is there a possibilty to rewind videos in the browser 5-10 seconds, without focusing the browser window. If yes, how?
While I am watching video tutorials in the browser (YouTube and Udemy via the Chrome Browser), I am coding along in another program (VS Code).
To pause the video I find it very practical to use the ...
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Answer Whatsapp video call from lock screen
I would like to answer Whatsapp video calls from the lock screen. Whatsapp and Apple Communities say it's possible and the default, but it doesn't work for me.
I can answer a voice call from Whatsapp ...
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Safari display black screen when trying to play video in macOS
I'm trying to see a video in Coursera using Safari 15.0 in my MacBook Air but it only shows a black screen, the audio works fine. The strange thing is that YouTube works, it is just some websites that ...
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Mac OS Two Monitors Chrome YouTube Video Requires Second Click
Hey all I'm new to using Macbooks (I'm on the M1 Macbook Air), this is my issue in short: when Chrome isn't in focus on my second monitor, and I try to play a video again by switching focus from my ...
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How can I use the Built-in display as the primary monitor, and a projector (via HDMI) as secondary?
I have a Mac mini which has no display which I connect to it by sharing the screen to my laptop. The Mac mini runs apps which controls my live show's backing tracks, lights and video. The video ...
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What is com.apple.dasd.swapkills.plist?
com.apple.dasd.swapkills.plist
Anyone know what this is? I've recently had police delete footage off my phone, am taking them to court. Can't get the videos back as I accidentally overwrote them when ...
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How do I prevent auto video play on web sites on iPhone 6s?
Following the instruction here -- https://www.alphr.com/how-to-stop-autoplay-videos-safari/, I have disabled the "Audio Play Video Previews" setting
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Take Video shortcut fails to save the video if longer than 2 minutes
I've got an issue with saving a video if the video camera is started via a shortcut. The video is saved to Photos if the video is shorter than 2 minutes, but something fails to save the video if it is ...
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Looking for a screen and microphone audio recording software for Mac apart from QuickTime
I've been using Quick time to record all my classes this year, but the problem is that it takes up an insane amount of space. I tried to record the same meeting using Zoom and it was just 500mb, ...
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How to compress a video recorded using QuickTime without reducing the quality
I've been using QuickTime to record my online classes, unfortunately the video sizes are very large (about 2.5GB for a 2hr long video). I tried recording the same classes using Zoom and the the file ...
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How to see when audio playing on mp4
I have mp4 files that are lengthy videos. The sound is purposefully only on during important parts. I'm trying to find a way to visually (or automatically?) find the time periods of the video when ...
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3rd Party AirPlay Video Quality
Apple's product page for AirPlay states that Apple TV 4K supports streaming "4K HDR video at 60 frames per second". However, I can't seem to find any other information about AirPlay video ...
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Quick time player has a bug and doesn't play the video after a certain time in a long recording (around 1 hr)
So I have online classes for 2 hours daily and I'm recording them using Quick Time player. Earlier it was working just fine. Now after a certain point (let's say 1hr 30 min) it gets stuck on a certain ...
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Restore old Quick Look video controls in Mojave
We just recently upgraded from 10.13.6 High Sierra to 10.14.6 Mojave. I noticed right away that the quick look preview for video files auto show/hides the playback controls. I don't like this, I much ...
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Macbook Pro Touchbar and USB SuperDrive, shows that the disc is empty but it has a recorded video
I am using a 2017 Macbook Pro laptop (with touchbar), using High Sierra 10.13.6.
I have several old discs with videos taken from many years ago (from around 1995!) and we can play these on a DVD ...
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Spotlight is not showing any video metadata
I've reindexed internal and external drives multiple times. I'm trying to use a directory print software to print my media collection but it relies on Spotlight for all data that would be very useful, ...
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What is the difference between /Library/QuickTime/ and /Library/Components/
In legacy versions of OS X (e.g. Snow Leopard), QuickTime supported third-party video components. For example, it was possible to play files encoded with the UT Video codec by copying the third-party ...
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Is it possible to view video/audio information in finder or a similar program
From what I can see finder cannot display codec, resolution, bitrate, basic metadata about batches of video and audio files that would be really helpful.
As there any way to achieve this or a program ...
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Picture in picture with YouTube app on iPhone?
I was surprised the iPhone YouTube app didn't provide Picture in Picture support by default:
But this video has a lot of views and seems to show a simple way (basically go into settings and enable ...
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Killed my old MacBook Pro. Any recommendations to help extend the life of my M1 Macook Air internal SSD?
I recently killed my old (2012) MacBook Pro's hard drive by doing something I didn't realize was a problem. I've now purchased a nice little M1 MacBook Air to replace the old workhorse MBP, and it's ...
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How to output AppleTV app video on MacBook Air to HDMI adapter to TV without mirroring
I want to be able to play a video using the AppleTV app with the output going out the USB3/Thunderbolt port where I plugged in a HDMI adapter connected to my A/V receiver driving my TV. I do not have ...
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Recover deleted screen recording Big Sur
Yesterday, I recorded an important session on my MBA M1 Big Sur 11.5.1.
When I stopped the video, I clicked on the floating thumbnail that appeared in the bottom right corner to replay the video, but ...
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How can I transfer a video file from Manjaro Linux to my iPhone through usb?
I have very slow wifi, so I need to send a file from my laptop to my iPhone through usb so I can then upload it, how can I do this?
If I have to use Windows I can, but I would prefer to use Linux ...
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Video not playing in Quicktime when resolution is small
So I have a video that I need to be in the resolution 8x8. No matter which way I get it in this resolution, it just won't display anything.
I tried exporting from Final Cut Pro and resizing the video ...
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Mac alternative for Subtitle Edit? [duplicate]
I'm a video producer and our company recently moved to Mac due to the efficiency of the M1 chip. I used to work with subtitles and translate them using a "Windows only" software named "...
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Simply Trimming MP4 Videos On Mac [duplicate]
So I have a simple task that I do a lot: trimming a video's head and tail off. On Windows, I open the photo, click edit, drag the bars to where I would like to cut, and I save. It will save as mp4 and ...
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"Photos cannot play this video because the resource is unavailable."
I see "Photos cannot play this video because the resource is unavailable." on my MacPro Catalina when I want to play a video.
I think I deleted QuickTime Player accidentally when cleaning ...
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Apple Keynote: Embedded video immediately stops after it's been started
I am creating a keynote with multiple embedded videos within different slides. Some of them are played correctly but four out of seven stop immediately after they started. All videos are played ...
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Convert m4a with cover to mp4
I've a m4a file with cover attached using mp4art; however Youtube doesn't support m4a. Supported formats - https://support.google.com/youtube/troubleshooter/2888402?visit_id=637603848977966877-...
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After I migrated to my new iMac, videos in Photos don't migrate to my iPad
I got a M1 iMac a couple of weeks ago and migrated from my old iMac.
Now finder keeps giving me error messages when it tries to synchronize my iPad:
Some videos, including “8347B1B9-93BB-49CA-B192-...
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How to use h.264/h.265 hardware decoding in ffmpeg
I know that macOS have h.264/h.265 hardware decoding and encoding support, but I can only find videotoolbox encoder in FFmpeg. Using the same -c:v h264_videotoolbox for decoding does not work. Does ...
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Does macOS 10.13 on macbook pro 2017 support VP8/VP9/AV1 hardware acceleration?
I know that macOS supports h.264 and h.265 hardware decode/encode (videotoolbox). Does it also support VP8/VP9/AV1 hardware decoding? Currently, playing a 4K video on YouTube is a bit slow.
I'm using ...
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On iPhone 8 Plus I need To access and upload to Facebook or YouTube, video clips I made Several years ago
Trying to upload some of my old video clips from my camera roll a few years ago, but in YouTube I cant Scroll back far enough.
I read Where I can Touch the video and get a sub menu to share to ...
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Rewind Media Key not working in Safari
I'm using a mechanical keyboard from Keychron and the rewind media key symbol/key: ◄◄/F7 does not work in youtube (running in Safari).
The pause/play ►||/F8 and the fast-forward ►►/F9 media keys ...
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Elgato Video Capture macOS application alternatives
The Elgato Video Capture analog to digital converter hardware works well on my Mac, converting S-Video or Composite Video + RCA Stereo to digital. Reasonable price, good quality, and works on macOS.
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How can I stop taking videos accidentally in the iPhone camera app?
I only want to shoot still photos with my iPhone 12 camera. However, I find that in order to get a still photo you have to tap the camera button for a very precisely timed interval. As a result, I ...
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Is there a way to loop part of a video on macOS?
I'm trying to learn a language from a video. For this I would like to loop part of a video indefinitely, and additionally be able to change the speed of the video while it's playing back. Is there any ...
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Bad quality videos when transferred
Hi there to apple community.
When I record my screen on my MacBook, edit it with Camtasia and the I transfer it to my iPhone the fps gets extremely awful.
but when I transfer the screen record with ...
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Does iMovie reduce the video quality after importing?
I am trying to merge two relatively small videos (~60 Mb and ~130 Mb), and for some reason Quicktime doesn't work. I then turned to iMovie, but I noticed that once imported the quality is slightly ...
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macOS Video Editor With Lossy File Size?
I got a Macbook yesterday and tried to render some videos. The 1 hour 720p screen recording video+audio file size is 120MB. When I render them in iMovie it shows 2.7GB on lowest blurry quality, on ...
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How can I convert a DMG or CDR file back into a DVD video?
Several years ago, I used Disk Utility to rip a DVD to a .dmg file. This was not a commercial DVD, it was old 8mm films converted to DVD by a company "Yes Video", so there is no DVDCSS on it....
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Reliable software to record webcam videos longer than 5 hours?
i'm doing university exams over the next, and due to covid, I have to do them at home, and record. I need to be able to record for around 5 hours continuously, - if the video fails i'll fail the exam. ...
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ffmpeg upgrade fails due to nettle no longer compatible with highSierra
I use HighSierra 10.13.6 on my Mac.
When trying to upgrade youtube-dl, the process also tries to update ffmpeg which fails because of a library called "nettle". As a result of this, ffmpeg ...
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Grayed Out "Audio" & "Video" call buttons on Facetime
Someone asked this question a year ago and got zero answers:
I open Facetime, which I used last week with no problem for a video call, but today the camera opens, I see myself, I see my list of ...
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Higher RAM vs Higher Storage [closed]
I am planning to buy the new MacbookAir with M1 chip.
My usage
Basic Word, PowerPoint editing. Plan to use native Pages and Keynotes.
Frequent video editing using iMovie and Kdenlive. I do not ...
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Can I detect the frame rate of a video using built in programs or tools?
I want to match the frame rate of a video I am editing to a project. But I don't know the frame rate.
Is there an easy way to check the frame rate of a video using built-in tools or programs?
