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Narate · 24-02-2007, 16:17

I need to get a short film online, its about 10minutes long. Anyone have any idea what file size I should be aiming for/and compression methods?

pgo · 24-02-2007, 17:57

divx or xvid codecs would be good.

Definitely look into Flash video, though.

another™ · 27-04-2007, 16:51

nah sod DivX/XviD, you're basically broadcasting to torrent geeks only.

flash is good, but i've had trouble implementing it, also, unless you get the sweetspot on bitrate, it gets flakey (like, if your viewer's bandwidth isn't up to your bitrate, it becomes stubborn and hard to view)

no, your best bet is quicktime, and the mpeg-4 standard. Quicktime because its the most solid video delivery, it's used by video editors, so it's very robust, and the quality is very good. MPEG-4, as it's been a standard codec since quicktime 5/6, so the userbase is pretty much saturated.

and you want to adjust the total bitrate (audio+video together) to be about 50kbps less than the target download bandwidth (so 512kb broadband, you encode 64kbps AAC audio and about 400kbps mpeg-4

also, first post, so hi yall.

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Narate Royalty™ Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Manchester (UK) Posts: 3,273	video compression I need to get a short film online, its about 10minutes long. Anyone have any idea what file size I should be aiming for/and compression methods?

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another™ another graphic designer Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 152	nah sod DivX/XviD, you're basically broadcasting to torrent geeks only. flash is good, but i've had trouble implementing it, also, unless you get the sweetspot on bitrate, it gets flakey (like, if your viewer's bandwidth isn't up to your bitrate, it becomes stubborn and hard to view) no, your best bet is quicktime, and the mpeg-4 standard. Quicktime because its the most solid video delivery, it's used by video editors, so it's very robust, and the quality is very good. MPEG-4, as it's been a standard codec since quicktime 5/6, so the userbase is pretty much saturated. and you want to adjust the total bitrate (audio+video together) to be about 50kbps less than the target download bandwidth (so 512kb broadband, you encode 64kbps AAC audio and about 400kbps mpeg-4 also, first post, so hi yall. Last edited by another™ : 27-04-2007 at 21:28.

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pgo Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 12,340	divx or xvid codecs would be good. Definitely look into Flash video, though.

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