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Best quality export for website content
by jeff weiser on Oct 1, 2008 at 12:59:56 pm

What is the best way to export a 5 minute demo reel that will be then uploaded to a website for prospective clients to view. Obviously, larger would be better. Which compression should I use? Thanks.

Jeff Weiser
Director/Cinematographer
TDN Artists
jeffweiser@earthlink.net

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Re: Best quality export for website content
by Jerry Hofmann on Oct 1, 2008 at 1:01:13 pm

h.264.

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Re: Best quality export for website content
by Chris Borjis on Oct 1, 2008 at 4:20:45 pm

check and make sure they have a new version of quicktime
to ensure they can play that H.264 file.

otherwise encode it for sorenson3 at around 80% quality.
really old versions of quicktime can even play it.

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Re: Best quality export for website content
by Charles Taylor on Oct 2, 2008 at 4:10:57 am

I found MP4 to be better than h.264.

I used MP4 high bitrate, 640x360 (it was all 16x9 content).

Looks great, is small.

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Re: Best quality export for website content
by Chris Borjis on Oct 2, 2008 at 4:52:43 pm

[Charles Taylor] "I found MP4 to be better than h.264."

they are both the same codec. perhaps the mp4 preset had
some other settings.

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Re: Best quality export for website content
by Charles Taylor on Oct 2, 2008 at 5:22:18 pm

I would assume that what compressor calls MP4 is MP4 part 2, and what it calls H.264 is MP4 part 10. So I do not think it is the same thing.

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