[videoblogging] Re: one video format for windows and mac?

2006-03-14 Thread Bill Streeter
Here is what I do; After I compress, I open the movie in Quicktime pro and scale it to 640x480--I don't acutally change the pixles in the movie I just scale the window so it is playing back at this size. Then I save it. Now when the movie plays back in a browser window or in quicktime it will play

Re: [videoblogging] Re: one video format for windows and mac?

2006-03-14 Thread Don McAllister
Why not future proof yourself and go in a widescreen format - iPods can handle 640x360 in mpeg4. File sizes are larger than H.264  but quicker to encode.DonOn 14 Mar 2006, at 05:33, sdorfman.rm wrote: --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Steve Watkins" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So 640x480

[videoblogging] Re: one video format for windows and mac?

2006-03-13 Thread Kent Nichols
If you just want one format, go with the iPod video format. We encode, .mov, .m4v, .mp3, flash, and .wmv. With .m4v being about 98% of our viewership. -K --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, sdorfman.rm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everyone, I'm about to start a video blog. I'm trying

[videoblogging] Re: one video format for windows and mac?

2006-03-13 Thread Bill Streeter
The problem is that there isn't just one good universal format. Flash comes the closest to being a universal format for Web viewing, but it doesn't work on most portable devices. If you want to be sure that your stuff can be seen on the iPod then choose one of the 3 formats work with it: MOV,

[videoblogging] Re: one video format for windows and mac?

2006-03-13 Thread JV
And don't forget DivX. We don't play on ipos or psp's (yet ;) ), but we have more than 50 million certified CE devices out there. That is more than every version of every ipod sold (video and non-video). We have a web player for windows and for mac. Jim Vinson DivX, Inc. --- In

[videoblogging] Re: one video format for windows and mac?

2006-03-13 Thread sdorfman.rm
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Bill Streeter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fortunately, thanks to the popularity of the iPod and it's supporting software iTunes, quicktime isn't all that rare on PC's anymore. It's pretty standard in fact--for people inclined to consume online media. I

[videoblogging] Re: one video format for windows and mac?

2006-03-13 Thread Steve Watkins
Yes mpeg4 rather than h264 offers greater compatibility with older machines versions of quicktime etc. Your mpeg4 files wont necessarily be any larger than h264 ones, its just that at any given bitrate you can get better quality fromh264 than mpeg4. But many people use around the same bitrate

[videoblogging] Re: one video format for windows and mac?

2006-03-13 Thread sdorfman.rm
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Steve Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So 640x480 wont work because that would be 307200 pixels. But a resolution like 544 x 408 that Taylor mentioned in an earlier post, will work and is the right 4:3 aspect ratio. Thanks, Steve. I did some searching