How to optimize Video for the Web
I noticed that when I watch Star Trek on tv.com that a one-hour video will come in crystal clear, and I can almost immediately move to any point in that one-hour episode. For my own video courses that I created for my company Songwriting Planet, the quality is a bit stuttered and it takes forever for the video to buffer. I had been uploading from my camera to iMovie (but just upgraded to Final Cut Express), and exporting to Pro Tools as a .mov file (Pro Tools seems to only accept QuickTime movies for video editing) to optimize the sound. I then been convert to .flv files via a third party editor and upload to Amazon S3 in conjunction with EZS3 (a third party company which makes using Amazon S3 more user friendly), to host the videos for my site. I just upgraded to an HD camera also.
For my frames per second, video size, video and audio compression, bit rates, and basically all my settings, I am simply guessing, and picking up a tip here or there on the Internet. I am seeking advice from anyone who could quickly tell me the ideal optimization settings to get closer to the quality of those Star Trek episodes. I know there is probably more than one way to do this, but can anyone give me some quick optimization settings that might combine high quality with problem free streaming? Thanks, Kevin Thomas
For my frames per second, video size, video and audio compression, bit rates, and basically all my settings, I am simply guessing, and picking up a tip here or there on the Internet. I am seeking advice from anyone who could quickly tell me the ideal optimization settings to get closer to the quality of those Star Trek episodes. I know there is probably more than one way to do this, but can anyone give me some quick optimization settings that might combine high quality with problem free streaming? Thanks, Kevin Thomas
G5, Mac OS X (10.5.8), That's it
