• Compression Techniques

  CODECs, Encoding, Bitrates, Oh My!

  Posted by Miltonpix on October 11, 2006 at 2:44 am

  [if there’s an already-existing thread covering this topic, please feel free to point to it]

  I know I’ve got my own confusion, and looking through the forums I’d say I’m not the only one. I’m in search of a good website/podcast/etc. that talks about all those great settings available to us when we’re creating our “final” output, be it the big screen, DVD, iPOD, GooTube…

  QuickTime Movie
  3G
  FLC
  iPOD
  Quicktime (custom)
  AVI
  DV Stream
  MPEG-4

  and each of those have their own settings to play with.

  Obviously all the various CODECs and other settings each have their strengths and weaknesses, but where’s a good place to learn when to use what?

  Palius replied 19 years, 9 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Palius

  October 11, 2006 at 8:20 pm

  A good place to start is defining your target audience and delivery method. The appropriate compression for webcasting to the cornfields or other parts of the world without broadband will be vastly different from the appropriate compression for creating DVDs.

  Ben Waggoner’s Compression for Great Digital Video (c) 2002 CMP books could stand an update but it covers the groundwork. Since you asked for a starting point….

  Regards,
  /mp

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