Delivering on usb stick...3 Questions.

Julius_ wrote on 8/16/2015, 10:11 PM

I had a few requests to deliver on a USB stick.

I record from a canon 7d .mov file format and usually the "unedited version" is about 2 hours and the edited project is about 45 minutes.

Seeing that there as so many USB sticks with different specs along with TVs, I'd like to select a template setting that would play on computers or smart TVs (with usb key 3.0 plugged in).

So I'm looking into mp4..

Q1: I'm guessing the "Sony Tablet 1080p" template at 12,000,000 is a wise choice (yeah??)

Q2: I also like the m2ts format (the AVCHD 1920x1080 template at 15,000,000) and from what I've seen, it plays everywhere. I'm not sure if it will do well for a 2 hour file. Is this also a wise choice?

Q3: Would "handbrake" also work for the length of my projects? I think the file size would be a lot smaller.

Any other suggestions or route I should go?

Other notes: I usually deliver on BluRay but this last month I'd had 4 clients saying that they don't have bluray players and want a USB stick (even though it was mentioned in their contract that it would be BluRay..I guess they thought they would buy it one day..)

Thanks!

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musicvid10 wrote on 8/31/2015, 2:08 PM

Regardless of the media, the file should be rendered to optimal bitrate for quality AND playability, NOT to the maximum size needed to fill the media! Overkill is worse than underkill in this case, because it may not play from a flash drive. The Youtube guidelines "may" be about as high as one wants to go.

MSmart wrote on 9/1/2015, 12:10 AM

Ah, good points.

I have to say the video at 1.5Mbps didn't look too bad. I'll use the Youtube guideline of 5Mbps for 720p video @30fps.

I have an LG smart TV which also plays USB so I'll be able to test PQ with it.