Why can't you overlay an image onto a video without losing any quality?

deama · 18th October 2019, 18:13

So basically, I don't quite understand why you can't just overlay an image ontop of a video without having to render it? Can't you just like splice them ontop of each other or something? Or maybe you can convert the image into a video and just splice it with the actual video? Would that work?

feisty2 · 19th October 2019, 17:02

ur talkin about structured data, encoded videos and images are, unfortunately, unstructured data. There're structured formats for intermediate copies, like you could manipulate different layers of image in a psd file, that information is however, permanently lost once you convert it to a final tiff copy or a lesser jpg copy

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deama Registered User Join Date: May 2018 Posts: 14	Why can't you overlay an image onto a video without losing any quality? So basically, I don't quite understand why you can't just overlay an image ontop of a video without having to render it? Can't you just like splice them ontop of each other or something? Or maybe you can convert the image into a video and just splice it with the actual video? Would that work? Last edited by deama; 18th October 2019 at 18:32.

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feisty2 I'm Siri Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: void Posts: 2,633	ur talkin about structured data, encoded videos and images are, unfortunately, unstructured data. There're structured formats for intermediate copies, like you could manipulate different layers of image in a psd file, that information is however, permanently lost once you convert it to a final tiff copy or a lesser jpg copy