Those WMV examples are very large. If they’ve exported using Adobe
Media Encoder (AME) then they probably didn’t bother optimising it for
Web and just went with the full-screen preset. The WMVs aren’t
embedded for streaming making the whole process very constrictive.
I gave up waiting for the WMVs to download and streamed the
ASX version instead.
I think you’ll find that, using AME/WMV 9/1024K preset, a 300 x
300-ish dimension file will go full-screen without too much loss.
You’ll need to experiment with bitrate settings, though. If I still
have my ‘custom’ preset saved, I’ll send them to you.
I speak from experience — this is how ourselves and directors
used to asset manage when working on (for example) music video
edits. Since then we’ve moved on to CS3/Flash.
https://www.hullfc.tv is one of our clients. Not the best quality,
but quality v. bandwidth will be perennial issue until everyone’s
using super-broadband.
Darren.
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