[MacDV] encoding for web video download

[Richard Brown]

You can create various flavors of Quicktime with Quicktime, which is 
particularly easy within Final Cut Pro, but doable in Quicktime itself. 
Note even for cable/DSL connections, you are best to keep the size no 
larger than 320x240. Five minutes will be more than 10MB with any 
semblance of quality, and more than 20MB looking and sounding very 
good.

Quicktime's latest capabilities with MPEG 4 can be very nice, but it is 
pragmatic as to who can see them. Real Player in Windows can play a Mac 
created MP4 without issue, and so can many Macs. Just not ALL of both, 
due to incomplete upgrading across the Net.

Quicktime does not really speak Media Player, and it's best to encode 
in Windows Media Player directly (on a PC.) Media Player files at good 
quality for 5 minutes are about 13-15MB.

Can they be smaller? Yes, sacrificing quality, of course.

We did a lot of experimentation for a five minute web streaming piece 
recently...

Finally assuming broadband is not the best of assumptions. MOST of U.S. 
users do not have broadband, BUT, most major cities and metropolitan 
areas do. As this is where most of the money is, assuming broadband is 
okay for certain purposes.

Richard Brown

On Mar 12, 2004, at 7:43 AM, David Minard wrote:

> I need to put an approximately five-minute clip up on the web 
> (downloading, not streaming) and would love to do it myself. Once I 
> have the tape digitized, is there a straightforward path to making 
> Quicktime, Realplayer, and Windows Mediaplayer versions?  Can this all 
> be done within Quicktime Pro? I am going make the assumption that the 
> downloading audience has cable/DSL, tho that's clearly not 100% by a 
> long shot.
>
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