title: Transcoding, Formats & Codecs
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+Ardour supports a wide variety of video file-formats and video-codecs. More specifically, ardour actually does not support any video at all but delegates handling of video to <a href="ffmpeg.org">ffmpeg</a> which supports over 350 different video-codecs and more than 250 file-formats.
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A short primer on video-files, formats and codecs – because it is often cause for confusion:
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