Hello frameworkers, tl;dr: I want to generate html5-friendly videos from DVD clips that stay below 50Mb.
I give talks, and use reveal.js (http://lab.hakim.se/reveal-js/) as my presentation framework. I occasionally want to include excerpts of films ripped from DVDs. As reveal.js is an html5 framework, I want to use the <video> tag to display media. There is conflicting information out there, but my understanding is that .mp4 and .webm are the formats best-supported by contemporary browsers. When the presentations feel complete, I publish them on GitHub. I would like it if anyone could view the presentations, but it's most important that they work for either Chrome or Safari on Mac OS X and I am not going to jump through hoops to make them universally available. I've used various strategies over the past few years, but do it infrequently enough that I can't always recollect what I did, and I'd like help nailing down a workflow that meets my needs. Most recently, I used Fairmount to copy files and get them into .m4v format. When I did this a year ago, the results were in .dv format. I don't recall what I did differently. I use iMovie to edit the clips, then Share:File, where I have several options to export to .mp4. Unfortunately, one of the clips I want to use ends up being 58Mb, and GitHub has a limit of 50Mb. I have Apple's Compressor which lets me generate .mov files that are below the limit. But .mov files are not recommended for html5. There are free and open source tools & services that convert .mov to .mp4, but this doesn't feel like the right way to go. What is the right way to go? Ideally I'd like to say: give me an .mp4 or .webm file of the highest quality possible given a 50Mb size limit. Any suggestions? Thanks for your consideration. Eric _______________________________________________ FrameWorks mailing list [email protected] https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
