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Explain options for HD on the web
I want to put some of my HD video on the web. I want to try a few different options to see which ones are the best for bandwidth and resolution. I see the new Flash player (update 9) has support for playing back H.264. I see in Vegas 8, I can pick MainConcepts AVC/AAC and Sony AVC to render H.264. But there are a LOT of options under these templates and I don’t understand which ones I should pick to create video I can play back on the web (in Flash at least).
I also know I can encode my HD video into a Flash Video format (.flv). And even these files appear to look good; but I cant tell if they look better than my SD camcorder video converted to the FLV format.
Can you please help me learn which formats are the best to select for use on the web? My original video is captured with my Sony HC7 camcorder using Vegas capture.
I would really appreciate any advice you can provide for what formats to pick and why they are the best to use for publishing my HD video on the web. And if you could also tell me what difference it makes (if any) that my camcorder is HD or SD; when I want to publish the video on the web.
Thanks
Bryan Wells
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[Bryan Wells] “I also know I can encode my HD video into a Flash Video format (.flv). And even these files appear to look good; but I cant tell if they look better than my SD camcorder video converted to the FLV format.”
A clear Flash video is going to be just that, whether HD or SD – it’s a down-conversion either way and highly compressed. If the goal is to give the viewer the impression that they are watching a mini-plasma screen of HD content – you can deliver that. But it’s no longer HD per se – just a nice clear picture that breaks down on transitions and lots of movement.
If you increase the bitrate, you’ll have better transitions but longer waits for the video to load – but, they may not stick around to watch it.
If you want to amaze them with full screen content playing off the web, you can, but expect huge files that take a lot time to download and will not play progressively (playing while downloading).
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[Bryan Wells] “I see in Vegas 8, I can pick MainConcepts AVC/AAC and Sony AVC to render H.264.”
Bryan –
I looked for an H.264 option in my Vegas 8, couldn’t find it. Do you have Quicktime Pro installed on your system?…or maybe that Codec not native to Vegas 8?John
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It is my understanding that the Main Concepts AVC/ACC and the Sony AVC(.mp4) are both H.264. I am not sure if ALL of the sub-templates under these two selections are H.264, but I have rendered video from HD using these templates and played them back in my Flash (update 9) player which I think means they are H.264. Another post on this forum said to use these templates to render H.264. If I try and play my HD video using the MP2 template, they do NOT play back in the Flash player. Since Flash update 9 supports H.264, I have convinced myself that what I render from AVC/ACC is H.264.
Bryan
Bryan Wells
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