theora ogv and webm compression?

Hi

I too am looking at a solution for this please.

h.264/MP4

Theora/Ogg

VP8/WebM

I use .ogv every day as a deliverable format.

It's not the most useful format as almost no-one recognizes it, but contrary to what one person has said, it is not proprietary, quite the opposite - it and webm are the only open source standards out there.

My workflow is as follows:

• cut in FCP
• export .mp4 using h.264 encoding (make sure you also click Video Options and select the "Baseline" profile, not "Main" - this will ensure your video works across all browsers/iOS devices).
• If you want really sharp quality, kick up the data rate to something like 3600 kbits/sec, but this will make your file larger.
• Once your video exports, go to firefogg.org, drop the file in, choose webm or ogv as your export setting, and go man, go.
• NOTE: if you want "batch" processing, you can fake it by opening multiple browser tabs and starting several Firefogg processes at a time. The browser might crash, but I've had pretty good luck so far.

Good luck!

PS - Compressor is a proprietary Apple product that uses proprietary codecs (mostly Apple's), so don't count on ever being able to make a setting or droplet out of ogg or webm.

I couldn't even get Compressor to use a "Baseline" profile mp4 with h.264 encoding - I have to do it in FCP!

Sean Huck wrote:

export .mp4 using h.264 encoding (make sure you also click Video Options and select the "Baseline" profile, not "Main" - this will ensure your video works across all browsers/iOS devices).

I'm afraid this isnt correct.

.mp4 is NOT compatible across all browers and iOS devices.

The only sure way is to convert to all 3 formats

h.264/MP4

Theora/Ogg

VP8/WebM

See more info here

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML5_video

@ shippo_uk:

I'm afraid you're taking what I wrote out of context. For certain devices that can play .mp4, what I said IS correct. (http://diveintohtml5.info/video.html#what-works). This is mostly for mobile devices.

For everything else, you'd need an ogv and a webm, which is the next step I documented above.

This guy, Greg, this is the one. Very smooth, easy, good quality ogg and webm using Quicktime.

To compress and convert file to OGV and WebM, You can find the guide in Google. There are many compressor there. Hope you can get one.