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Q&A How can the total size of all frames of a video > that video's size?

I commanded Free Video to JPG converter to convert every frame of some .mp4 into JPGs. One .mp4 of 131 MB got converted into pictures totalling 700 MB! Another .mp4 of 377 MB got converted into pic...

2 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by TextKit‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Quasímodo‭

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Meta Can I post this question — now REwritten and citing Super User — similar to one deleted by moderator?

Just checking before posting the following. Thanks. Title Can I await Mozilla or Firefox to unearth the awry Add On(s)awry, before attempting myself? How long needs Firefox? Body Does Firef...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by TextKit‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Mithical‭

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Q&A Barring Undo — without reselecting and REcoloring the object — how can I UNcolor these blue tresses?

I can't use Undo, because I noticed these 2 tresses of blue hair LONG AFTER I used the Object Selection Tool. How can I restore the original hair color, without restarting from scratch? Do not ask...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Este‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Este‭

Question adobe-photoshop
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Meta How can we grow this community?

Users will follow good content. If the content of StackExchange is CC licensed, can't "we" "just" import all (or a selected highest quality subset) of questions and answers from StackExchange? I a...

posted 1y ago by tartley‭  ·  edited 1y ago by tartley‭

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Q&A Why do you need virtual machines in these examples?

I added the numbering. It's a virtual machine. Basically, it's one or more computers pretending to be one or more computers. Believe it or not, this is incredibly useful. Say you have som...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by TextKit‭  ·  edited 4y ago by Alexei‭

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Q&A How to stop all automatic Windows Update restarts on a Windows 10 Pro machine?

Others have posted some workarounds that directly answer your question, but my own answer to the implied deeper question ("how do I prevent my [currently Windows 10] machine from rebooting during a...

posted 3y ago by Chris Henry‭

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Q&A Is a fanless PC good? [closed]

I would like to buy a fanless PC. Is a fanless PC good?

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by mccoy.rameer‭  ·  closed 2y ago by Canina‭

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Q&A Should I now delete backup files already stored on my SSD C Drive? Should I use free space on SSD C Drive?

On both my desktop and laptop, my Windows 11 C drives are on a 500 GB SSD. My D drives are on a 1 TB HDD. Desktop A Microsoft Support Engineer noticed that I backed up 300 GB of family videos on ...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by TextKit‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Lundin‭

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Q&A Why did Windows automatically open 1 Word document, but not 2 others, in the same folder?

Call the 3 Word documents in the same folder 1.docx, 2.docx, 3.docx. I followed Allen Wyatt's instructions for "Opening a Word Document when Starting the Computer" that is encapsulated by Microsoft...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by TextKit‭

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Q&A Why can reversing the order of the same words 1. lower the total character count, and 2. eliminate the short last line of a para.?

I started using Microsoft Word ever since I was 5, but I never knew of this trick until I read the following! Why does this gambit work, when the word count remains the same? (c) Word-order cha...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by TextKit‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Chris Henry‭

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Q&A A term that describes frontend redirects

We can talk about backend redirects when we redirect a user from example.com/1.html to example.com/2.html (without a link); the server is asked to do it by some backend-language such as PHP or by J...

2 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by deleted user  ·  last activity 3y ago by Canina‭

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Meta Unable to gave an upvote to Q or A

You were probably not logged in. You can sometimes get logged out when something changes on your machine, you get to the site from a different machine, etc. The view is very similar, and often it...

posted 3y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Q&A What free apps let me pause, while I'm recording a video on an iPhone? [closed]

Are there any free video recording apps for the iPhone which have a pause function? I want to be able to pause and resume my recording, so that the footage before and after the pause becomes part ...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by 8500 Ward‭  ·  edited 7mo ago by samcarter‭

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Q&A Free Windows 10 software for trimming videos (e.g. .mp4) from 2-10 GB?

Can you please recommend free software for my Windows 10 laptop, to trim videos from 2 to 10 GB? I've tried Lightworks, ShotCut. But they keep freezing after I apply my trim, and I must force-clos...

2 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by TextKit‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by mcalex‭

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Meta What do we do about webapps?

I am not sure of web applications (Google Docs, GitHub). But, Overleaf is Latex. I will move Latex to Software Codidact. Is Latex a programming? I found a source : Many people dismiss this ques...

posted 4y ago by deleted user

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Q&A Isn't Slug redundant, when Bleed oversteps the page and Bleed < Slug?

I read Scott's explanation, but Slug still feels redundant to me. Because Bleed < Slug, then whenever you cut the paper at Bleed, you will have cut off the Slug inescapably, simultaneously...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by TextKit‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by dsr‭

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Q&A Does Wireless receiver increase internet speed?

Someone told me that using receiver a 2 MBPS WIFI can reach upto 2.6 MBPS. I usually don't download too much things but recently I was downloading a 20 GB software using Microsoft Edge, the downloa...

posted 3y ago by Anonymous‭

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Q&A How can I click inside a gnarled window?

I need to install BCUninstaller. But I can't click to pick the options inside, OR the maximize button on the upper right that's greyed out. No other window is gnarled like this on my desktop, which...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by TextKit‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by jimbobmcgee‭

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Meta Why did samcarter delete my post, simply because later other websites cross posted it?

I have rewritten this post in response to samcarter's answer. I posted, and wrote myself, https://powerusers.codidact.com/posts/287106. At the time of posting, I was unaware of any cross post. sa...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by TextKit‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by samcarter‭

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Q&A How can I record merely heads in a video call?

To save Hard Drive space, how can I record merely the green rectangles below containing the heads of my family? I waste bytes if I record the areas crossed out in orange, like the backgrounds and ...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by TextKit‭  ·  edited 2y ago by TextKit‭

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Meta How can I heighten the Security window?

Dr. Olin Lathrop alleged Both the pictures in your question are links into Microsoft's domain, and are therefore used here without attribution. This post needs to be deleted due to gross intelle...

2 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by TextKit‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Quasímodo‭

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Meta Please don't presume cross posting from me.

I just want to respond to comments like this. That cross posting wasn't mine. I had never heard of solveforum.com before! Reply to samcarter I agree completely with your paras. 3 and 4. Henceforw...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by TextKit‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by samcarter‭

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Q&A How effortlessly can universities check where you logged in? What other IT details can they determine?

Assume you're accessing your university Canvas LMS and Intranet (is this the correct term?) — e.g. your university email, library website, etc... — normally, without VPN or proxy. Assume you have...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by TextKit‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by dsr‭

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Q&A ELI5 these 9 methods to compare similar pictures – Hash, MD5, SHA?

Please explain like I'm 5, in SIMPLE English – all 9 methods below? Please compare and contrast Hash, MD5, SHA? why Hash has a, b, d, p in front? why SHA has 4 different Bits?

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by TextKit‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by dsr‭

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Q&A What are the differences between OBS' 4 encoders?

I never used OBS before. I'm computer illiterate. I need OBS because I want to record Skype videos with my grandparents before they die. I Googled this, but all the results were too complicated. I...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by TextKit‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by dsr‭

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