Merging Videos – How To Ensure Same Video Format – Part 2

The need to merge videos comes at the time when for a single end video you have several video types that must be combined together.

This may seem easy but in practice the job is somewhat difficult to do. This is mainly because you are going to join asymmetric video components to work together, and so for this to succeed there must be some levels of symmetry. Otherwise the work will fail.

There are 2 main aspects to the merging of different types of video components. The first is about the resolution or dimension of each component. I’ve covered the important steps involved in my previous article on ensuring same resolution for merging videos.

The second aspect concerns the types of formats of different videos to be merged together. It all begins with what video editing software you are using, and what are the different video types to be merged.

For example, if you are to merge an auto-animated PowerPoint presentation with a screen-cast video, then both must be first converted to an agreeable, common format (say AVI or WMV), which your video editor will accept.

If you are to merge flash movie, PowerPoint presentation, animated image, videocam movie, and screen-cast video, then needless to say all of these must belong to the agreeable formats of the video editor you’re using. This is where the importance of video conversion lies.

Usually, the flash formats like SWF, FLV, MP4 are not accepted by most video editors as inputs. They therefore need to be converted to say AVI or WMV for the purpose. The same logic goes for PowerPoint presentation as well.

In all these cases video editing assumes great importance, because before you can use all the attractive video effects, you need to ensure that the component videos are safely lined up on the timeline without any loss.

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The following is a brief flash video made after converting from from PowerPoint 2010 to explain the concept of same formats for merging different video types.

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