Is there a place anybody knows where I can study up on everything about video compression?
I'm constantly baffled. For instance, I just exported from a QT movie to FLV. The first movie was compressed at 400kbps (medium quality) The second at 700kpbs (high quality). The final file size for the 400kbps was bigger than the 700!
Re: Compression Confusion by Daniel Low on Nov 7, 2009 at 9:47:36 am
Are they both the same length?
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"There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance."
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"We and Apple are neck and neck and we're chasing the two
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Re: Compression Confusion by Daniel Low on Nov 7, 2009 at 9:44:15 pm
Please detail the exact settings for both.
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"There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance."
Steve Ballmer To USA Today: 30 April 2007
"We and Apple are neck and neck and we're chasing the two
other players,"
Steve Ballmer, referring to Nokia and Research in Motion. October 6th 2009
Re: Compression Confusion by Daniel Low on Nov 8, 2009 at 9:57:24 am
I thought you said the 400kbs clip had a bigger file size?
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"There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance."
Steve Ballmer To USA Today: 30 April 2007
"We and Apple are neck and neck and we're chasing the two
other players,"
Steve Ballmer, referring to Nokia and Research in Motion. October 6th 2009
If you do further google searches you can likely find even more info, although those two links provide pages of information from some of the most knowledgeable people in the insdustry. You could also do a search for onine articles by a guy named Jan Ozer, who conducts all sorts of tests on codecs and encoding software, and writes and lectures about it extensively.
But....even after reading all of that...(and I have several times over), you'll still occasionally end up having to experiment with settings depending on your source material and it's codec/format. There are literally thousands of format/codec combinations out there and each one has its own quirks, which makes it dicey to apply them globally to all video sources. Generally, the higher quality and resolution your source footage is, the better your compressed footage is going to look.
Chris Blair
Magnetic Image, Inc.
Evansville, IN
www.videomi.com
Re: Compression Confusion by Daniel Low on Nov 8, 2009 at 11:53:04 pm
What are you using to to the compression step for you?
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"There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance."
Steve Ballmer To USA Today: 30 April 2007
"We and Apple are neck and neck and we're chasing the two
other players,"
Steve Ballmer, referring to Nokia and Research in Motion. October 6th 2009
Re: Compression Confusion by Daniel Low on Nov 9, 2009 at 12:04:07 am
Quicktime is crap at doing any kind of encoding. You really need to use dedicated software like Apple compressor or Telestream Episode. You'll never get consistent results exporting from QT player.
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"There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance."
Steve Ballmer To USA Today: 30 April 2007
"We and Apple are neck and neck and we're chasing the two
other players,"
Steve Ballmer, referring to Nokia and Research in Motion. October 6th 2009
