In this article, we’ll categorize the shortcuts based on common actions, providing both the Mac and Windows shortcuts for each. By familiarizing yourself with these shortcuts, you’ll be able to perform tasks in Permiere Pro with ease.

General Shortcuts:

Timeline Navigation:

Editing Shortcuts:

Note: These shortcuts are based on the default settings in Adobe Premiere Pro, and you can customize them according to your preferences in the application’s keyboard shortcuts settings.

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However, a raw video that is gigabytes in size can be compressed to a few megabytes by compressing. But is there a way to compress videos without losing quality?

The answer is to use “video compressors”. These tools work on a video to compress it to a smaller size while retaining its quality. Of course, there are lots of factors that define a video’s quality and size, but these tools help you to minify videos as easily as possible.

Here’s my recommendation for seven video compression tools to optimize your videos.

YouCompress

YouCompress is a simplistic video compressor with an intuitive interface. It’s built for beginners as it requires zero configuration, chooses the best parameters according to your video and reduces its size losslessly. You can also convert audio files, documents, and photos using YouCompress.

The best thing is that it automatically deletes your videos from its servers after a few hours. However, you can’t confirm the deletion. And lastly, YouCompress delivers compressed videos without any watermarks. That said, I find it best suited if you wish to quickly compress a video online.

• Formats: .avi, .mov, and .mp4.
• Platforms: Web/browser.

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Clipchamp Utilities

Clipchamp Utilities offers a powerful set of online tools for video professionals. The list includes a video compressor and converter as well as a recorder, unlike others. It works like magic — it auto-determines your video, its format, and the compression level to deliver an optimized yet high-quality video.

What I liked the most is that it can compress or convert an unlimited number of videos of any size for free. Also, it features privacy protection that allows you to work on your videos locally without uploading them to its servers, unlike the above tools. Moreover, it supports batch operation as well.

• Formats:.3gp, .avi, .divx, .mov, .mp4, .vob, .webm, and a lot more.
• Platforms: Web/browser.

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Movavi Video Converter

If you’re looking for a quick and easy video compressor, Movavi is a good option. You can compress any number of video files with unlimited sizes, however, it’s not avaialbe offline.

It boasts of lightning-fast conversion, like UniConverter Offline, which is an added advantage along with its pro-only features for veterans. I like its preset output formats — they ease your work and deliver high performance. Lastly, you can also opt to customize the settings for having the full control.

• Formats:.avi, .divx, .mkv, .mov, .mp4, .mpeg, .vob, .webm, .wmv, and more.
• Platforms: Windows and Mac.

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HandBrake

HandBrake is a free and open-source software that runs offline only, like the above tool. It has built-in device presets, like the other tools, which are perfectly optimized for popular devices including mobile and web platforms.

It’s one of my favorite video compressors as it’s free and provides competitive features. For example, you can manage or select quality modes, add subtitles, add video filters, and customize audio and video codecs individually. That’s not all, it supports processing a queue of video files, i.e., batch processing.

• Formats: .avi, .mkv, .mp4, .mpg, .webm, .wmv, and more.
• Platforms: Windows, Mac and Linux.

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Compressor by Apple

If you run macOS and love powerful apps from Apple, you may enjoy using Compressor for minifying your videos. This application is a complete package of best-in-class features for your video compressing requirements.

It offers high-quality yet flexible video compression along with the support for 4K and 360-degree videos, unlike many tools. Moreover, you can personalize the output settings, work with numerous encodings and formats and convert among them per needs, and process the videos in batch (unlike most tools).

• Formats:All common formats including DVD and HEVC.
• Platforms: Mac.

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Free HD Video Converter

Free HD Video Converter by WonderFox is another ultimate video converter cum compressor for creating high-quality videos. It supports powerful compressing mechanism which effectively reduces the size of your video files.

You can customize the bar between the quality and size of your videos and achieve the exact results per your video requirements. It’s a popular tool, which I have used many times in the past. It’s mostly comparable to other tools on this list, especially the video converters, and packs similar features as well.

• Formats: .avi, .mkv, .mov, .mp4, .mpg, .wemb, .vob, and more.
• Platforms: Windows.

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UniConverter

UniConverter, by Wondershare, is a remarkable video compressor that efficiently reduces the size of your video files. I find it’s online version to be the best for any novice user. You can choose the final format, size, and resolution of the video — right in the browser.

There’s also an Offline UniConverter that’s able to compress your videos in batch and download videos from YouTube, unlike its online video compressor. What’s more interesting? It packs in extra features that help you merge and trim videos, apply effects, add soundtracks and subtitles, etc.

• Formats: .avi, .divx, .mkv, .mov, .mp4, .mpeg, .vob, .webm, .wmv, and more.
• Platforms:Web/browser, Windows and Mac.

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Conclusion

It’s impossible to pick one video compressor, but the above ones are the best video compressors in the market. Of course, it all depends on your requirements — the compression and quality you seek in your target videos. Also, it depends on your budget and platform — whether you need it online or offline.

I suggest an offline tool if you have large videos or seek complete security of your videos. But an online tool is a better option if you’re looking for a quick and handy tool that works almost everywhere. And among them, I like Clipchamp Utilities for its salient interface and powerful features — all in the cloud.

Lastly, I find most video editors can also perform as video compressors if you know the little attributes of videos.

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Most of us involved in the web-hosting industry are familiar with its capabilities. However, if you are new to cPanel, we recommend that you follow these five initial setup steps.

1. Get a Strong Password

As a user, you are given a default username and password to access the cPanel domain owner interface, as well as the default MySQL database user, FTP/SFTP account, email address, and system user login used to access the server remotely via SSH (if enabled by the server administrator).

It is highly recommended to change your cPanel login password as soon as possible. If someone can guess or obtain your password, they will have unauthorized access to the server, which can be extremely dangerous.

Hackers have been known to take over a valid user’s registered email account, gaining access to the login credentials for their cPanel account. This can make it difficult for the owner to reset their password, as the registered email address is required for verification as the account owner.

To avoid such problems, it is essential to follow good password management practices. Some tips for creating a strong password include changing it frequently, avoiding dictionary words and familiar items such as birth dates, vehicle registration numbers, or phone numbers, using a combination of letters, numbers, and symbols, using more than eight characters, and not saving your password in the browser.

2. Understand the server environment

To ensure optimal use of the server environment, it is essential to have a comprehensive understanding of its operating system and architecture, kernel version, application versions, IP address, and hosting package limitations.

This information can be found on the main page of the cPanel interface. It is recommended that a good hosting server be run on the updated version of the kernel and applications under 64-bit architecture (x86_64).

Additionally, it is important to check the cPanel Service Status to determine the server’s real-time condition. This feature provides information on the number of CPUs running on the server, total memory usage, and disk space status. It is advisable to ensure that all services are up and running as expected.

For optimal server performance, disk usage should be below 80%, swap below 10%, and the server load average should be below 2x the total number of CPUs.

3. Check permission (File and directory)

As a cPanel user, it is crucial to ensure that the correct permissions and ownership are set for all files and directories within your home directory, particularly the public_html/ directory.

To check the PHP handler being used on your cPanel server, you can create a phpinfo page under public_html and check the value of "Server API" accessed via a web browser. If the PHP handler is CGI/FastCGI, suPHP is likely being used.

This handler executes PHP as a separate process alongside Apache, and all file permissions should be set to 644 and directory permissions to 755. Permissions higher than this may result in an "Internal Server Error" when executing PHP scripts. If the PHP handler is Apache 2.0 Handler, DSO is being used.

This handler doesn’t require strict file permissions and ownership because Apache handles the PHP file entirely. However, it is still recommended to follow the same permission practices as advised for the CGI/FastCGI method. To fix any permission or ownership issues, you can use cPanel File Manager, an FTP client, or SSH access (if allowed).

Remember to delete the phpinfo page once you have retrieved the necessary information.

4. Add some protection

It is also important to take advantage of the platform’s flexibility to add protection to your website, domain, and cPanel account. While protection and security are primarily the responsibility of the server administrator, there are steps you can take to enhance your security.

Firstly, ensure that Spam Assassin is enabled under cPanel > Mail > Spam Assassin. Although some web hosting providers do not enable this feature by default, it is a useful tool for filtering out spam emails.

Additionally, it is recommended to discard all unrouted email under Default Address (cPanel > Mail > Default Address) with an error to the sender at SMTP time.

Avoid using the "blackhole" or "forward to email address" options, as these can be exploited by hackers to launch a DOS attack on the SMTP service. Another important step is to disable Frontpage if it is not being used (cPanel > Advanced > FrontPage Extensions).

Microsoft has discontinued FrontPage extension support for the Unix platform, and many web hosting providers have reported severe intrusion attempts via FrontPage vulnerabilities.

It is also advisable to check the PHP disabled_function using the phpinfo page and ensure that all critical functions have been disabled inside the server.

If not, create a php.ini file under public_html and add the following line:

disable_functions=exec, passthru, shell_exec,system, proc_open, popen, curl_exec, curl_multi_exec, parse_ini_file, show_source.

Finally, enable hotlink protection (cPanel > Security > Hotlink Protection) to prevent others from stealing your bandwidth. This feature allows you to only allow your website’s URL to access static contents like .jpg, .jpeg, .gif, .png, and .bmp, thereby preventing others from linking your images to their websites and using your bandwidth.

5. Notification and Monitoring

To ensure that you receive notifications from cPanel, it is recommended to add a secondary email address as a backup in case the primary email is unreachable. This can be done under the "Update Contact Info" section in cPanel’s preferences.

Additionally, it is advisable to subscribe to an external website monitoring tool to monitor the availability of your website and domain. This will provide more accurate results than relying solely on your web hosting provider’s monitoring service. You will also get notification or email alert whenever the site goes down.

Conclusion

This article is not intended for new cPanel users only. It also serves as a reminder for those who already familiar with cPanel as well. By practising these best configuration practices it may help you to become a better and more responsible website/domain owner.

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