One stop is a way to describe a doubling or halving of light in an exposure change. Canon’s cinema exposure guide describes a stop as a doubling or halving of light. Moving one stop brighter…
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The “V” marking on an SD card is its Video Speed Class. The SD Association defines these classes by minimum sustained sequential write speed: V30 means at least 30 MB/s, V60 at least 60 MB/s,…
Crop factor describes how a camera sensor’s size changes the angle of view captured by a lens compared with a 35 mm full-frame reference. It does not physically change the lens’s focal length or turn…
YouTube has a viewer-side feature called Stable volume. According to YouTube Help, it is on by default for many videos and balances the range between quieter and louder parts during playback. The feature is not…
Video bitrate is the amount of data used to represent a video over time, usually measured in bits per second. It affects how large an exported file may be and how much detail can be…
MP4 and H.264 are often discussed as if they were competing video formats, but they do different jobs. MP4 is a container: a file structure that can hold video, audio, captions and metadata. H.264 is…
A video proxy is a smaller, lower-resolution copy of an original video clip that an editor can use while cutting a project. The full-quality original stays in the project; the editing software switches back to…
Owl Labs announced the Meeting Owl 5 on 20 October 2026. The company describes it as a combined 360-degree video, microphone and speaker system for meeting rooms. The announcement gives a US starting price of…
If you’ve ever explored the audio settings on your camera, microphone or editing software, you’ve probably encountered two numbers that appear almost everywhere: 44.1kHz and 48kHz. At first glance, the difference seems pretty insignificant. After…
10-bit video can represent 1,024 values for each colour channel, compared with 256 values per channel in 8-bit video. That extra precision can give editors finer gradations to work with when adjusting colour, especially in…
