Monday, 21 November 2016

How to make .WebMs and save the world!

Hello again fellow environmentalists! Did you reduce your carbon footprint from my previous blog advice?? Of course you did, and i bet you a vegan too! If you think that was all it takes to save humanity, then you have much to learn!

Today children, we will be learning about .WebMs!




If .gif is the nectar for nothing but dank memes, then .WebMs is the heavenly elixirs brought to us by the sorcerers of this unworthy worldwide connection (praise open source developers!)
For those of the yet initiated, ".WebM is an opensource, royalty-free, media file format designed for the web."

The benefits of this format includes:
  • Low computational power to enable playback on any devices, including low-power handhelds and tablets. 
  • Light weight encoding
  • Simple and fast compiler
  • Highest quality real-time video delivery
  • Minimal codec profiles to encode .Webms on any website
Ever since the movement FlashRageQuit, we moved on to the more secure HTML5, as a result .Webm quickly took over and became everyone's favourite medium.

Ever wondered why youtube takes so little bandwidth and loads so fast?
.Webm 
(つ≧▽≦)つ

Ever wondered why Vimeo loads like garbage and can't buffer for shit?
Fuck knows why!! 
(ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻


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"Cancer mom, personified cancer."


But here are the steps to make a proper working .WebM and save your lives!

Firstly you would need a encoder/converter, most tools are free and some plugins are available for Adobe premiere/media encoder.

Here is a Reddit link that gives you an ample amount of options. I will use one of the converter in that list for the following demonstration --> WebMConverter with ffmpeg.
It's extract ready, so just place it in any folder.


Note that h.264 mp4 is natively supported by most browsers today, so there's no need to actively convert to .WebM, unless you try to conserve bandwidth or space.

1. Prepare your video and export in .mov ( i use .mov because it can be made lossless and gives less artifact pains for conversion).

2. Open WebmConverter for Bakas


3. Import your .mov, make sure it has thorough playback and fps.




.4. Tick "Enable audio" if your video have audio. All the rest of these functions are quite self explanatory, and should be left untouched. 




5. Some websites limit size e.g. 4chan - 3mb. So to keep your .WebM's quality relatively consistent, here is a graph you can use to determine the Bitrate you would like the output to be.


Output sizeBitrateFilesize
320x240 pixels400 kbps3MB / minute
480x270 pixels700 kbps5MB / minute
1024 x 576 pixels1500 kbps11MB / minute
1280x720 pixels2500 kbps19MB / minute
1920x1080 pixels4000 kbps30MB / minute


Under Advanced tab you will find ffmpeg multithreading tab, for normies, this function is reserved for multi core cpu processors, it increases rendering speed, but as far as i know, ffmpeg codecs can't support more than 2 core threadings, so it is basically moot.


6. Hit Export and go grab a bag of dorritos #rainforestlivesmatter.#saynotopalmoil #noonereallycares





Here is another option for you to convert .WebMs,using online converter

1.Online-coverter is an expansive service, can convert to many formats. the functions are roughly the same, but can not host.



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