Best format to export videos for streaming internet use

[Rafael Amador]

For affordable fast conversion you should try something like this;
https://www.elgato.com/elgato/na/mainmenu/products/Turbo264HD/product1.en.html

[Travis Roesler] “h.264
high quality
key frame rate 24
600×318 for dimensions”
For quality, set Multipass and the keyframes AUTO.
Restrict the date rate. For that size i would start to try something like 500Kbps.
rafael

http://www.nagavideo.com

[Alex Elkins]

Those settings are kind of overkill for the web. Also, 800×318 is quite an annusual (although not unheard of) aspect ratio. Is your material standard 16×9 widescreen?

Try the following format:
h264 mid/high (move the quality slider to a little but above the half-way point.)
Key Frames: Automatic
Dimensions: 1280 x 720

Audio:
AAC
48kHz
128kbps stereo or 64Kbps mono (I usually only bother with stereo if there are audio pans that have a real affect on the viewing experience and for music videos where obviously audio quality is important).

If you’re finding the encoding takes too long, switch the video settings to single pass. Quite often this is perfectly acceptable anyway.

Make sure your video is rendered inside FCP first. This will speed up the encode as well.

You might also want to look into setting up a Qmaster cluster for rendering with Compressor, but that’s another topic entirely.

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[Travis Roesler]

Amazing… Thank you very much. I will try this and let you know how it goes