- it looks better
- it plays back better / less stuttering, much better recovery from a slow internet connection
- viewers can drag the playhead back and forth after the movie has downloaded and scrub through the video / land on an exact frame / check out what's going on
- viewers can download it and re-cut the movie / remix it / share it (and videobloggers do this all the time :-)
Flash advantages:
- Most computer already have flash installed. PCs don't ship with the Quicktime Player, so the computer owner has to download it from Apple (for free), and if your viewers are watching on a borrowed computer (like at schools, libraries, internet cafes around the globe, etc) then there's a good chance they can't install quicktime.
- If you want to lock down your movie and prevent almost everyone from copying it (or if you are working for hire and your client demands this ) then flash is the way to do it. (There are ways around this, but most people don't know how.)
- If you want to add interactivity / put the movie into a funky interface, flash has a lot of tools and power to do that — if you know flash. Quicktime can do a lot too, but in my opinion, Flash is much more powerful, flexible and easier to program than a Quicktime movie.
It seems one trend these days is to use Quicktime as the primary file ('cause it's better), and then create a flash version and offer that as an alternative (linked in the same post, listed second so the Quicktime mov is what goes into the feed). Flash has certainly taken off in the last six months as the favorite over Windows Media for the PC-without-Quicktime-Player option. I think the popularity of YouTube & GoogleVideo / plus the fact blip.tv will auto-transcode for you is why this is happening. (If you use blip.tv and upload your file there, the computers at blip.tv will make a Flash version for you, also store it there in your account, and you can link to both.) WMV files _really_ stink, in my opinion (as I try to watch them on my Mac, always waiting for buffering, never being able to scroll, fast forward / rewind / pause properly), so I'm glad to see Flash replace WMV.
jen
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On Apr 17, 2006, at 11:08 PM, Jon Rawlinson wrote:
Hi guys,
What do you think is better embedding a flash video file or a quicktime video file?
Can you give me your opinions on both?
Thanks so much!
Cheers,
JON.
The Nata village blog
natavillage.org
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