A friend of mine works in e-commerce and often needs to reuse or edit videos that already have text or subtitles burned into them. That got me looking into ways to remove text from video without having to edit it frame by frame. I tried a few existing tools and APIs, and eventually found Alibaba's VideoDetext. The results were good enough for the kind of videos I was testing, and running the API …
Video generated faster than it plays.
We serve MiniMax Fast H3 — the FastH3 VSA checkpoint distilled from MiniMax H3 — on eight H100s. 1344x768, 24 fps, native synchronized audio, 0.94x realtime.
Unedited MiniMax Fast H3 output from the deployed configuration, transcoded for the web. The API returns 1344x768 mp4 with the audio track the model generates in the same pass.
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My girlfriend sent me a 4 second clip from her iPhone and asked me to set it as her Telegram profile video. Telegram accepted the upload, showed a spinner, then quietly kept the old static photo. No error message, nothing to google. The upload just evaporated. The clip was HEVC (H.265), 1080x1920, 10-bit, straight from default iOS camera settings. Telegram's video avatar pipeline wants something …
Reconstructing a Mixbook Movie with ffmpeg
Mixbook emailed me to say my animated project was ready: a short movie built from my photos and set to music. I could watch it in the browser or order a printed copy. I could not download it. There is no download button, and Mixbook's help docs say one does not exist.
I wanted the file. Getting it became a small reverse-engineering exercise, because the …
Originally published at ffmpeg-micro.com FFmpeg's subtitles filter burns SRT or ASS captions directly into the video pixels. Unlike soft subtitles (which viewers can toggle off), burned-in subtitles are permanent. They show up everywhere: social media players that strip subtitle tracks, messaging apps, and platforms that don't support external caption files. The basic command is one line, but the…
Creating YouTube videos feels overwhelming, right? Between scripting, filming, editing, and maintaining a publishing schedule, it can eat up your entire week. But there's a better way to produce quality content.
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For nearly 20 years, Vimeo has been a digital video powerhouse, changing the way users upload, share, and enjoy video content online. Initially a hosting platform for general users and video enthusiasts, today the company serves millions of professional creators and businesses, offering advanced tools for video production, distribution, and monetization.
Best-known for its sleek UI and high-quali…
