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Imagine that you recently started a job, and your first onboarding task is to watch an introduction video from HR. You download the video file to your computer: newonboardintro.mp4. You double-click the file and sit back to watch. But nothing happens. You click it...

There’s never been a time like we live in today. We can snap a thousand pictures on our phones a day. We can pull out our device, open up a note or document, and write to our heart’s content. Have a thought or song idea? Pull out your smartphone and record it quickly....

Have you ever downloaded and tried to open a file… only to find that it doesn’t work? Or you expect the content to open in one program, but your computer tries to use a completely different one? Or the worst scenario: you click on a file, and your computer asks,...

In our day and age, we take the concept of a “file” for granted. They’re just… there. We click them, and they open. We download them, we upload them, we move them around. But do you actually know what’s inside a file? Beyond the data that delivers the action we expect...

Picking the right audio format can often feel like a minor technical detail in a much larger editing process. But it can actually have an outsized impact on factors such as sound quality, storage costs, and even streaming performance. Most important? The top audio...

Vertical video has finally completed its journey from social media experiment to the primary form of digital content creation. What was once a convenience choice for smartphone users has become a dominant recording and editing style, which means there’s even more...

Hop on the forums, and you’ll probably find more than a few strong opinions on what’s coming for audio and video tech in the year to come. There’s plenty of talk about new codecs and standards, many of which are coming with significant performance upgrade claims....