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What you NEED to Know Before Touching a Video File

Hanging out in subtitling and video re-editing communities, I see my fair share of novice video editors and video encoders, and see plenty of them make the classic beginner mistakes when it comes to working with videos. A man can only read "Use Handbrake to convert your mkv to an mp4 :)" so many times before losing it, so I am writing this article to channel the resulting psychic damage into something productive.

If you are new to working with videos (or, let's face it, even if you aren't), please read through this guide to avoid making mistakes that can cost you lots of time, computing power, storage space, or video quality.

In this brief guide, I will share what I've learned about archiving live webpages and recovering deleted webpages using various archive services.

Before you start

I highly recommend installing the Web Archives extension in your web browser (Chrome, Firefox). It provides quick access to archive services and search engine caches.

Overview of archive services & caches

Wayback Machine: Best and largest webpage archive. You probably already use it. Wayback Machine is the only archival service that also performs automated crawling, so its coverage is much better than other archives. See usage tips on Wikipedia.
Archive.today (also known as Archive.is): A mid-sized service that takes

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