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Video Compression Problem (MAC/PC)
I am exporting a project for a downloadable quicktime on a client’s website. However, I am working on a MAC and used H.264 as my compression type. It looks great on the MAC but it looks bad on a PC. The colors are really faded, white is slightly tannish looking and the video isn’t that crisp.
What is the best universal MAC/PC compression type, where it will look similar on both machines (colors) and compress well with little quality loss. It also should be a compression type that most have already on their machines because the viewership demographics are all over the board and same with hardware types.
Other than QuickTime, is there a better format (AVI, WMV, etc.) I was just thinking that QuickTime was the best.
Thank you for your help!
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5 Replies
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There’s a gamma difference between both. Movies made on a Mac can look dark on a PC. You might try SWF and look at them on both.
Have a wonderful day.
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.swf is limited to a number of frames.
I think he means Flash video (an .flv) and he’s right.
for a website this is THE defacto standard
now that EVERY platform (even a ps3) can play back.it looks consistent as well.
on2.com has the best Flash encoder currently.
they are about to release a newer one that rivals H.264
in quality and with much smaller file sizesand in recent news the major league baseball
website (bigger than youtube for concurrent streams served)
recently switched from silverlight to adobe flash -
Hey Chris,
No,I meant self-contained SWF files with controlers. Flix Pro makes these as does a little app called Video2SWF. All the movies on my website were made with this. I can’t stand FLVs because of the bother of setting up all the links. The SWFs look great and are really easy to manage.
Have a wonderful day.
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ah, I see what you mean.
I hate it too. I have my web developer do it for me. 🙂
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Make your H264 with QT and change the extension to .flw. have a look how it looks with Flash Player in a PC.
Rafael
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