First Vimeo Posting

Kimberly wrote on 12/7/2010, 10:10 AM

Hello All:

Here is my first Vimeo posting. Wow the playback quality is so much better on Vimeo!

I've been hesitant to post on Vimeo because the quality of the projects you see there so impressive and, quite frankly, intimidating. But we all gotta start somewhere, so here goes.

vimeo.com/17539789

This video's format is typical of our weekly trip video on the dive boat. I do a short music video compilation for each site and them stick 'em together in a DVD at the end of the week. This particular wreck is a deep one and we only do it for divers who have advanced training.

Regards,

Kimberly

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Kimberly wrote on 12/9/2010, 6:35 AM

I see the stutter between 50 seconds and 1 minute 10. It's not as bad on my original, but it sure shows on Vimeo.

I checked my project and I have a pan/crop to highlight the name Aikoku Maru on the placque. That might be the culpit. Must read up on the various settings with pan/crop.

I love this forum. As I said on my Vimeo profile, "The more I learn, the more I realize I don't know enough." Thanks VidMus.

Laurence wrote on 12/9/2010, 10:11 AM

Yes I see stutters all the time in Vimeo as well. I just live with them but I can see where it would drive a person nuts, especially with certain types of source material. I use Vimeo anyway. Maybe I'm so forgiving because I remember the postage stamp sized horrendously artifacted online video so well that we all used to have to live with.

It is definitely a playback issue. I see it often when the read ahead buffer is way past where I am in the video. It seems to be at complex parts which leads me to believe that it is related to some sort of VBR issues in Vimeo's choice of playback codec.

Stopping the video and replaying it almost always smooths out the jerky parts. It seems to be more of an issue on longer videos.

I still really like Vimeo though. The quality is still better than most other options in spite of not being perfect and for the church and non-profit stuff I do, the price is right ;-)

One last thing: the problem is a lot worse at HD resolutions. I use 864x480 (the closest number to 855 that is divisible by 16). That gives me a little bit better than DVD SD widescreen video that doesn't get charged for embeds, and actually plays back quite smoothly.