Preparing videos for blog posts

Here's a short cheat sheet of how to get videos ready for blog posts. We convert them to the widely supported ( will for example not work on Fedora out of the box), and create short and smaller video thumbnails. These thumbnails will be embedded into the blog post directly as little animated pictures, just like gifs, but much more size efficient.

Shorten
Start at 10 seconds and cut after the next 5 seconds:

Scale down
Resize to 300x533 px:

Embed into a post
Make sure to embed the link to the full video somewhere in the text related to the video:

Some text talking about the video ([video](/static/video/2019-00/video.webm)).