Audio and video editor
Mina edited broadcast video and podcast audio before moving to writing. She covers codecs, bitrates and platform limits in plain numbers, and keeps a shelf of odd camera and recorder files to check what really converts.
Writes about: video encoding · audio formats · FFmpeg · social video specs
Save an Instagram Reel you own or may reuse as a 1080 × 1920 MP4, then turn it into a GIF, pull the audio out as MP3 or shrink it under 16 MB for WhatsApp.
Mina Sato · Oct 19, 2026 · 11 min read
MP3 and AAC are lossy and small, FLAC is lossless at about half of WAV, and WAV is uncompressed. Sizes per minute, device support, tags and which to pick.
Mina Sato · Oct 13, 2026 · 11 min read
Cut 2–6 seconds, scale to 320–640 px, use 10–15 fps and a palette built from the clip. Platform size limits, when MP4 beats GIF, and six ways to make one.
Mina Sato · Oct 8, 2026 · 11 min read
MOV and MP4 are near twins; the HEVC codec inside iPhone clips is what fails on Windows and Android. Free ways to convert, when quality stays exact, and fixes for common errors.
Mina Sato · Oct 5, 2026 · 11 min read
Converting MP4 to MP3 re-encodes the video's AAC audio. Pick 128 kbps for speech or 192 kbps for music, extract to M4A for zero loss, and fix silent or DRM files.
Mina Sato · Sep 26, 2026 · 11 min read
Transcribe audio to text free with Voice Memos, Google Recorder, Word or a browser tool. What affects accuracy, how to prepare the file, and SRT vs TXT output.
Mina Sato · Sep 21, 2026 · 12 min read
Discord free takes 10 MB, Gmail 25 MB, Outlook 20 MB. Learn how bitrate and length set file size, which settings to change, and when a share link beats compression.
Mina Sato · Sep 16, 2026 · 11 min read