rendering lossless to stream online

[David Braswell]

You can export an uncompressed QT movie easily enough after you mixdown all video layers. But you will never stream it over the Internet with typical broadband…. repeat… never. There are very good codecs for streaming. Investigate mp4 and VP6 for Flash FLV files.

[Grinner Hester]

You will find the streaming defaults in sorenson squeeze have much better results than Avid’s export settings.
Throw a reference file in there and check it out. You’ll quickly find the one that best suits your needs.
Outside of that, man these days vimeo is freakin’ fine more oftent han not. On that note, you’ll not find a better online video host than right here at the cow. Throw an uncompressed QT this way and then play it once it’s encoded and tell me what ya think. Very clean. Mucho grande.

[Chad Pearce]

Thanks man, i appreciate the tips. I don’t have sorenson squeeze, but is there a free version i could use? I’m guessing prob not. See, my problem too is that I was going to upload the video to my own site, that I use kind of like an online business card, because I’m a recent college grad looking to get into the post-production aspect of things. I guess I could always try what the first guy suggested, and change the file to an mp4 or flash file. I just dont want to lose too much quality from compression.

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[David Braswell]

Award-winning, well known agencies display their reels on the web by compressing them. Compression is a necessary evil, but MP4 and FLV files (even WMV) are the norm for internet streaming.

If you’re pinching pennies you can purchase QuickTime Pro for $30. You can open a QT ref movie in it and export to a few different codecs.