Re: [videoblogging] files

2010-06-07 Thread Adrian Miles
biggest mistake is to set manual keyframes. make them automatic (also known as natural), will produce better compression results and generally smaller file sizes... an appropriate closing Adrian Miles School of Media and Communication Program Director B.Comm Honours vogmae.net.au On 7 June

[videoblogging] files

2010-06-06 Thread Tom Dolan
Hi, Can someone tell me the meaning of: Flattened movie or video file? I'm looking into different ways to compress for the web from iMovie and occasionally I see this term. Thanx Tom Dolan tomjdolan.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Re: [videoblogging] files

2010-06-06 Thread David Jones
On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 10:21 AM, Tom Dolan tomjdo...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Can someone tell me the meaning of: Flattened movie or video file? I'm looking into different ways to compress for the web from iMovie and occasionally I see this term. http://lmgtfy.com/?q=flattened+video+file Which

Re: [videoblogging] files

2010-06-06 Thread Adrian Miles
Flattening the movie interleaves data through the file structure. The aim (from memory) is to have key data up front so the player gets it first and doesn't have to wait for it to arrive. I don't know what data this is but imagine it would be things like: duration frame rate gamma volume metadata

Re: [videoblogging] files

2010-06-06 Thread Tom Dolan
Thanx for taking the time to explain that Adrian, I guess I'll select 'quick start' when I convert. I use Quick Time Pro to convert from iMovie to a QT movie which I then upload to YouTube, blip and a few others. My files have been very large, even after following the advice of a very

Re: [videoblogging] files

2010-06-06 Thread David Jones
On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 2:44 PM, Tom Dolan tomjdo...@gmail.com wrote: Thanx for taking the time to explain that Adrian, I guess I'll select 'quick start' when I convert. I use Quick Time Pro to convert from iMovie to a QT movie which I then upload to YouTube, blip and a few others. My files

Re: [videoblogging] files

2010-06-06 Thread Joly MacFie
For YouTube I've been using 2 - 4mbps for ages, but recently I've upped myself to 10-20mpbs on short clips and it really does improve things. If one can afford the bandwidth there's no reason not to go even higher - there's a 20GB limit, right? j For my talking head blog I generate 1280x720

Re: [videoblogging] files

2010-06-06 Thread David Jones
On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Joly MacFie j...@punkcast.com wrote: For YouTube I've been using 2 - 4mbps for ages, but recently I've upped myself to 10-20mpbs on short clips and it really does improve things. If one can afford the bandwidth there's no reason not to go even higher -