Timeline for To “digitize” means to turn something into a digital format that was previously not digital. What to call changing one digital format into another?
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| Nov 22 at 3:01 | comment | added | Mazura | Never had to convert wave files to mp3s? Or MKVs into MP4s? I guess not if all you do is stream from the cloud and never actually own anything. "Guess [y'all gonna] have to buy The White Album again...." | |
| Nov 21 at 17:40 | comment | added | ojdo | +1 for stating copy | |
| Nov 21 at 11:19 | comment | added | user3840170 | “convert” is okay, but the other terms are rather dubious. | |
| Nov 21 at 3:45 | comment | added | Peter Cordes | Can you use it in a sentence in a way that you think fits? In my first comment's example "the DivX video" is "the [video] data" in the AVI file, and I don't think "export" sounds right the way I used it in that sentence. | |
| Nov 20 at 22:51 | comment | added | Divizna | @PeterCordes Yes, if you read the whole sentence, you'll see that I said you can export and import data to/from a file. Each of the terms I mentioned refers to a different situation. | |
| Nov 20 at 22:20 | comment | added | Peter Cordes | But again, import/export only seem to fit when talking about using a GUI program, not to describe just the conversion from one format to another (including transcoding video and/or audio if desired or necessary due to the new contain not supporting the old stream formats.) | |
| Nov 20 at 22:17 | comment | added | Peter Cordes |
Export doesn't fit at all for the OP's example of going from CD or DVD to typical computer file formats. Or even from say .avi to .webm. Maybe for a case where the audio and video streams are just copied unchanged to a different container, like mkvmerge does, but I wouldn't say "I exported the DivX video from my old AVI file to h.264 in an MKV, using FFmpeg". I also wouldn't say "I exported my AVI to MKV". I guess maybe in the context of using a video editor program that had loaded the AVI file. I guess maybe you could also say you "imported" a DVD if using a GUI video editor.
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| Nov 20 at 20:56 | history | answered | Divizna | CC BY-SA 4.0 |