My Head Hurts…

[Rich Rubasch]

Disagree again gentlemen. I spoke with two clients today who both view production company clips on their home connection. And if you have 768 DSL but you are at the fringe distance from the box, you are sometimes lucky to get 384 performance. Concerning Flash Video, I still find it quite annoying when it starts up, stutters a bit, then jumps forward, continues a bit, stutters some more and on and on.

My clients have consistently commented on how fast our site loads and how effortless our clips play.

Are you willing to wait more than even 30 seconds to see a clip? Doesn’t everyone crave instant on? Smooth playback without stutter? Perhaps we are just a bit arrogant to think that our clips are so fantastic that clients will wait and wait for them to load…all 30 frames because each one is so important. Stereo audio, because you know, they might have their headphones on and I want them to capture all that left right audio keyframing I worked on.

I’m simply arguing for the fast, smooth, no stutter playback.

At home or at work.

Two ways to get there? 15fps and mono audio, which is my suggestion and I’m sticking to it.

Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media

[Craig Seeman]

Again my regional bias (but it’s my market) I don’t know any business or professional that has 768kbps in my area. 3000kbps is $29.95 a month here (That’s for DSL, Cable Modem speeds are much higher at that price 10,000-15,000kbps). I get 30,000kbps for $49.95. I haven’t seen that stutter start from anywhere in my neck of the woods.

[Stephen Schott]

Well, you both have shown me to know your area and your clients. Believe it or not, I’ve got clients that don’t have high speed anything! They aren’t on dial-up, but close… they’re on satellite which I believe is 512. Your neck of the woods, my neck of the woods, Who do you want to see the video…

Stephen

When you’ve got family, everything else is extra.

[Jimena Aznar]

i know this posts are 2 yrs old, but in case someone is still reading it…

i am now even more confused! haha
i am doing a flash website where the transitions need to be flv’s so the music will be in sync at any connection speed (on MY neck of the woods good internet connections are very new, so i have to think of people with very low ones). this videos are 3 secs long each, and this is everything i’ve tryed:

• i am preloading the videos into the users cache when they land on the page.

• the videos are beeing netstreamed in actionscript.

• unfortunately my videos have to be pretty big in size (920×660, i know it’s a weird size but it’s required).

• they where swf that i converted into quicktime and then into flv. the frame rate is always the same (30fps) (but have tried frame rate at 15 and no luck).

• when converting into flv’s always use On2 VP6.

and after 2 weeks of trying, searching, testing, creating a zillion different flv’s i still can’t understand how websites like the movie’s watchmen or inception work!!!
how do they manage to have such big videos in such high quality?
or is the fact that mi videos are too short in time and really fast movements have to do with anything?
or is there a way i don’t know about for compressing flv’s in very high quality?

please, i really need some help!!!

i have already posted this in the forums of flash and after effects and no luck, thought i would try here.

any reply would be highly appreciated 🙂

[Craig Seeman]

Large frame size, good quality = high data rate.
Encode already encoded source file to another codec = loss of quality. Encode that encoded file yet again to another codec = major serious loss of quality.

[Jimena Aznar]

thanx so much for your reply.
so, say, if i have an swf with the animation i need to convert into flv, what would be the best way to go from there?

thanks!!!