Ben Waggoner
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Well, now that 2 is out, planning for 3 will commence.
What are the output formats you’d like to see, and where do you think Expression Encoder could bring unique value to those formats?
Ben Waggoner
Principal Video Strategist, Silverlight
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Bear in mind that Cleaner 3.1 was almost exclusively a QuickTime-based tool, but i was DEEP. It did all kinds of things for the format that hadn’t been done before or sense, and I’d say was a huge part of making QuickTime a viable delvery format in the late 90’s.
Ben Waggoner
Principal Video Strategist, Silverlight
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Sounds like it could be a ffdshow issue!
ffdshow is great in theory, but can be probelmatic in my experience.
Ben Waggoner
Principal Video Strategist, Silverlight
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Does the PowerPoint preset have audio turned on in the advanced settings?
Can you confirm the .avi has audio by playing it in Windows Media Player?
Ben Waggoner
Principal Video Strategist, Silverlight
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If you use WMV, you can now embed in Silverlight cross-platform. If you need to support downloads, it works out of the box on Windows, and with Flip4Mac on Mac.
Unfortunately, the only really universally supported media format is MPEG-1…
Ben Waggoner
Principal Video Strategist, Silverlight
Microsoft CorporationCompression Blog: on10.net/blogs/benwagg/
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Episode has historically been a better H.264 encoder than Apple’s, although I haven’t done a head-to-head recently.
Episode also supports HIgh Profile H.264, which QuickTime can now play back, although it still can’t author.
Stay away from HE AAC for audio, though, as it’ll sound lousy in QuickTime.
Ben Waggoner
Principal Video Strategist, Silverlight
Microsoft CorporationCompression Blog: on10.net/blogs/benwagg/
Compression Classes at Stanford and PSU: on10.net/blogs/benwagg/21622/ -
Rhozet’s new Carbon Coder 3 they announced at NAB also looks quite promising in its ATSC/DVB features. Integrated AC-3 encoder as well.
Ben Waggoner
Principal Video Strategist, Silverlight
Microsoft CorporationCompression Blog: on10.net/blogs/benwagg/
Compression Classes at Stanford and PSU: on10.net/blogs/benwagg/21622/ -
If it’s going to be displayed at 1440×900 full-screen, I’d encode at that. Doing 1920×1080 just ups the bitrate, and doing 1280×720 loses some detail.
1440×900 @ 15 Mbps CBR should look pretty darn good. Since you’re not trying to distribute on the web, no reason to try to shave the bitrate down.
If you’re using Episode, make sure you’re using high-quality scaling. And it the source is interlaced, make sure you’re using the high-quality deinterlacing modes (it’s called motion adaptive or something like that).
Ben Waggoner
Principal Video Strategist, Silverlight
Microsoft CorporationCompression Blog: on10.net/blogs/benwagg/
Compression Classes at Stanford and PSU: on10.net/blogs/benwagg/21622/ -
If you’re already in CS3, you might as well just encode in-suite. Both Premiere/Encore and Squeeze use the same Main Concept MPEG-2 encoder, so you shouldn’t get any quality difference at best.
Ben Waggoner
Principal Video Strategist, Silverlight
Microsoft CorporationCompression Blog: on10.net/blogs/benwagg/
Compression Classes at Stanford and PSU: on10.net/blogs/benwagg/21622/ -
I’ve found it pretty confusing myself. And it seems like the features to make any of them marginally useful (like 2-pass encoding) cost $K.
Ben Waggoner
Principal Video Strategist, Silverlight
Microsoft CorporationCompression Blog: on10.net/blogs/benwagg/
Compression Classes at Stanford and PSU: on10.net/blogs/benwagg/21622/