Best Practices for Web Rendering??

brnijeff wrote on 8/4/2002, 12:18 PM

Hello,

I'd like to put some short baby footage on the web for the grandparents. A little experimenting with rendering to .wmv was so poor that even faces are unrecognizable.

I don't mind losing sound quality, but please give some tips on getting decent video quality without huge file sizes for the web.

Format, screen size, frame rate, codec, etc. The original clips are coming from a DV Camcorder.

Thanks,
Jeff

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Cheesehole wrote on 8/4/2002, 2:45 PM

try:
Format: Windows Media (WMV)
Audio: Windows Media Audio 8 at 20kbits mono or Acelp (experiment)
Video: Windows Media Video 8
bitrate: 150 - 256 K
frame size: 272x204
15fps
6 secs per Iframe
default buffering

if the faces are too small, you can zoom in on your video in Vegas using the pan/crop tool. you have to do lots of closeup work when rendering for the web since your frame size has to be so small.

that will be fine if your grandmother has DSL or cable (actually you could go higher). but for dial-up, stick with still pics. video is no good over dialup.

Chienworks wrote on 8/4/2002, 6:04 PM

I would also add:
- set video quality slider to maximum (all the way to the right)
- enable two-pass encoding.

These two steps make a huge difference for me. They increase the render time quite a bit, but they are definately worth it!

brnijeff wrote on 8/5/2002, 8:26 AM

Thanks! I'm not stuck on wmv by the way. What about quicktime or real movies?
Jeff

Cheesehole wrote on 8/5/2002, 9:04 AM

I wouldn't inflict Real Player on anyone (especially my own grandmother!)

Quicktime would be okay, but it's likely she already has the Windows Media player. the quality is about the same. try similar settings with QT if you like.