Tips, tutorials, and thoughts on making videos people actually watch.
After Atlassian retired Loom's Creator Lite tier and started auto-billing viewer seats, the question became how to take your library with you. Here is the free, no-card path through Clipy's new migration tool.
Atlassian's Loom pricing changes mean it's time to move. A practical 7-step checklist for exporting your videos, switching to a free alternative, and cancelling Loom — without losing anything.
Three sharing tiers per recording: public, restricted with email invites or whole email domains, and private. Locked-out viewers can request access; the owner approves with one click.
Most software companies treat QR codes the way they treat fax machines: technically still around, never actually used. That stance was fine
Short screen recordings preserve the exact state of a screen at the moment a phishing email is opened or a Microsoft 365 alert fires — which is exactly what IT teams need for fast, accurate security investigations.
Cropping video is one of those operations that sounds trivial until you try ten 'free' tools and discover six of them watermark, three want an account, and one quietly transcodes to 480p. Here's the path that doesn't.
AVI is a 1992 Microsoft container format. The codecs inside (DivX, Xvid, MP3) were retired more than a decade ago. Modern devices won't play it. Here's why, and how to convert in your browser without uploading.
WhatsApp caps at 16 MB. Discord free at 25 MB. Gmail at 25 MB. Compressing a video to hit a specific number is mostly about CRF math and rate control mode. Here's how to do it in your browser without uploading.
Every iPhone clip carries a rotation flag in its metadata. iOS reads it. Windows often ignores it. The result is a video that looks correct on the phone and sideways on your laptop. Here's the fix.
Trim, cut, split — three words for similar operations with different tradeoffs. Lossless trim only works on keyframe boundaries, which is why your cuts sometimes shift. Here's the math and the fix.
A GIF is just a slideshow of full-frame bitmaps with a 256-color palette. An MP4 of the same animation is usually 10–20x smaller, sharper, and autoplays everywhere. Here's the fastest way to convert one in 2026.
If you have been recording quick walkthroughs with Loom for a while, there is a moment that catches almost every free user