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Prepare a Video for Upload: Trim, Reframe, Compress and Check
Build a deliberate video-export workflow around the destination's size, shape and format requirements, with checks for sound and readability.
How to Increase or Reduce Video Volume Safely
Multiplies the audio by the percentage you choose and copies the video through untouched (-c:v copy). Only the sound is re-encoded, so the picture is…
How to Choose the Right Streaming Bitrate for OBS
Takes a target file size and a duration and returns the video bitrate that lands inside it, after subtracting the audio track and container overhead.
How to Create a BRB Screen and Countdown Overlay
Creates a \"be right back\" card to switch to during a break — sized for a stream canvas and ready as an OBS source.
How to Style a Stream Chat Overlay With CSS
Creates a styled chat overlay to add as a browser source in OBS, so messages appear on the stream itself.
How to Convert Video Formats Without Guessing the Settings
Converts almost any video container to MP4 with H.264 video and AAC audio, at a frame rate you choose.
How to Resize Emotes and Stickers Without Losing Clarity
Resizes a single image into the exact set of sizes a platform requires, in one pass — because you need all of them, not one.
How to Extract Audio From a Video in Your Browser
Discards the video stream and writes the audio to its own file. MP3 uses LAME at quality level 2, a variable bitrate that averages roughly 190 kbps —…
How to Extract a High-Quality Still Frame From a Video
Seeks to the second you specify, draws that frame to a canvas and saves it as a PNG. This is the only video tool here that does not use ffmpeg — it uses…
How to Pick a Giveaway Winner Fairly and Transparently
Draws a random winner from a list of entrants, on screen, so the selection happens where everyone can see it.
How to Create a Seamless Looping Video
Repeats the clip end to end for the number of plays you choose, using -streamloop with -c copy. The video is never decoded, so a three-times loop of a…
How to Remove Audio From a Video Without Complicated Software
Strips the audio track and copies the video through untouched. The exact command is -c copy -an: no decoding, no re-encoding, no quality loss whatsoever.…
How to Choose OBS Settings for Your Internet and Computer
Works out a safe bitrate from three things: what your resolution and frame rate ideally want, what your platform will accept, and — the one that usually…
How to Resize a Video for Social Media and the Web
Scales the video to a target height and works the width out from the source aspect ratio, so nothing is stretched or cropped. Scaling uses lanczos, which…
How to Make a Starting Soon Screen for Your Stream
Generates a full-screen holding card with your text, sized for a stream canvas, ready to add as a browser or image source in OBS.
How to Create Stream Alerts That Stay Readable
Creates alert graphics for follows, subscriptions, donations and raids, ready to add to your alert system as an image.
How to Prepare Correctly Sized Assets for Twitch and Streaming
Resizes an image to the exact dimensions a specific platform slot requires — YouTube thumbnails, channel banners and avatars, Twitch banners, avatars…
How to Create a Clean Stream Overlay for OBS
Builds a stream overlay you can add as an OBS source — the frame around your content, including webcam borders and information panels.
How to Estimate Streaming Revenue Without Overestimating It
Adds up subscriptions, bits, donations and ad revenue into a monthly total, so you can see which source is actually carrying you.
How to Build a Streaming Schedule You Can Maintain
Lays out a weekly streaming schedule you can publish on your channel and social accounts, so viewers know when to show up.
How Long Will a Video Upload Take? Calculate It Accurately
Converts a file size and an upload speed into a realistic transfer time, handling the unit conversion that trips everyone up: file sizes are in megabytes…
How to Reframe a Landscape Video for TikTok, Reels and Shorts
Centre-crops the source to the target shape, then scales the result — the filter is crop followed by scale with lanczos. Nothing is stretched: the aspect…
How to Convert a Video to GIF Without Creating a Huge File
Choose the right clip length, width and frame rate for a useful animated GIF, then balance motion quality against download size.
How to Trim a Video in Your Browser Without Losing Quality
Cut a precise section from a video, understand keyframe-aware trimming, avoid unnecessary re-encoding and verify the exported MP4.
File Upload Size Limits (2026)
A practical 2026 reference for Gmail, Outlook, Discord, WhatsApp, Slack, YouTube, Google Drive, OneDrive and Dropbox upload limits.
How to Compress a Video for Discord (Without It Looking Terrible)
Discord's upload limits, the maths behind hitting them, and which settings to cut first so your clip still looks sharp. Runs in your browser — nothing uploaded.
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Compress, trim and prepare clips for upload, chat and social platforms. This archive is kept focused so readers can move from a broad topic to a specific tool, setting or workflow without landing on a thin tag page.
Each article is written to answer a practical question: what to use, which setting matters, what the limits are, and how to avoid wasting time or damaging a file.
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