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Sending proofs to clients and getting feedback
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We put the bit rate at about 1.4mps…a pretty good number. The main reason we don’t allow videos to bypass the system is that we require at least 5 keyframes per second. That allows our commenting system to be as precise as it is. You ever click on a YouTube video timeline and the playhead jumps to another spot? That’s due to lack of keyframes. That doesn’t happen in Takeoff. Try pressing left and right arrows and you will see the smooth scrubbing we have. All due to keyframes.
We couldn’t detect the number of keyframes per second so we decided to transcode each and every video, even if they are web ready adn within our bitrate range. However, a new version of our video analyzer recently came out that lets you determine keyframes setting during encoding. So at some point we will re-enable bypass. We will also provide presets for Compressor and Adobe Media Encoder to make it easier. This will avoid double compression. Until then, I recommend uploading high res quicktime vids. Those compress very well.
Thanks for the feedback at uservoice. I already wrote back and it’s in our plans. It’s not such an each feature…lots of tricky UI work involved. But we’ll get it done at some point. One thing we do with our clients is zip everything up and just upload that zip. It’s not perfect but is a decent workaround. How does that sound?
Stephen Potter
CTO, http://www.mediascend.com
Creator of http://www.takeoffvideo.com – video producers check this one out -
Is Vimeo hard to download from? Open in Safari, open Activity window, find the large file and alt+double-click…
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I’ll put it on the forum, but I notice a nasty bug. Anytime I click on anything in the dashboard… comments, videos uploaded, etc. It just takes me to the last video I’ve uploaded.
For example it says at so and so time, Bret commented “xxxxx” on “xxxx.” The xxx’s being clickable to either the comment or the video name. Clicking either just takes me to the same , incorrect, video. Clicking any of the numerous ones take me to the same video. The most recent upload fwiw.
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Bret, could you please tell me what OS and browser you are using? I can’t seem to replicate that bug here.
Stephen Potter
CTO, http://www.mediascend.com
Creator of http://www.takeoffvideo.com – video producers check this one out -
Keith,
Unless you are a team member of a given production, you can’t access the video in any way. It will give you an error. If you are a member, it will in fact download the video. But we did a few crafty things to help thwart someone from getting the source video (which is an encoded h.264 and not the original high res by the way). I invite you to try and rip a Takeoff video. Hopefully it’s not easy. That’s really the point. It’s not impossible, but it’s not easy. But that was our goal. We just want to make it tough to get the video file. That way we minimize the likelyhood of a client ripping off a videographer by getting the source video then not paying. That’s one of the major problems with FTP or email.Stephen Potter
CTO, http://www.mediascend.com
Creator of http://www.takeoffvideo.com – video producers check this one out
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