Best settings for video on a memory stick? On autoplay.

[Olly Lawer]

Hi,

Thanks for all your replies.

The video will indeed be embedded on their website too, however, memory sticks will be given out to clients too.

If producing a H.264 will reach 95% of end users, based on them using a memory stick (and being allowed too!) then I will settle for that. To be honest, I wouldn’t know where to start when encoding a video with MPEG1 – I am imagining that it is not as simple as creating a H.264 QT using FCP?

In terms of the H.264, when it is mentined to use “some varation of H.264” I was planning on just using all the same setting as the origional video and simply pulling it out as a H.264 video using FCP – would you suggest something different?

It could be an idea too maybe to create a WMV in addition on the stick, or is this unnecessary?

Also, in terms of embedding an autoplay, not sure where I would start with this? Any ideas?

Thanks

Olly Lawer

[Mark Wilkinson]

trying to extract the info i need from this thread. so H264… does that mean you just have a video file sitting on the drive that the user has to double click on to launch ? or is this somehow made to autoplay ?
and in the end is the video in quicktime or something or mp4 ? like what is the file extension ?

[Craig Seeman]

Personally I’d use H.264 .mp4 since both Quicktime and WMP12 will play it. I can’t speak to auto play though so that may involve different programing for Mac and Windows.