[Ben Waggoner]

And drat! I had to reformat my drive and that link doesn’t work anymore. Anyone have a fresh link or another other way to get those Rec. 2020 .imc/.icc files?

[Ben Waggoner]

Great! I loaded it into C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe\Color\Profiles and it seems to be working perfectly. I’m rendering out a test clip right now.

FYI, the new version of x264 supports Rec. 2020 color space, and I’m hoping to look at some real 2020 video later today.

[Ben Waggoner]

Fortunately lecture content is generally pretty easy to encode.

You’ll need something better than Flip4Mac to get the bitrate down low enough. Expression Encoder 4 SP2 is free for WMV/VC-1 encoding, and quite good at this kind of stuff. What’s the minimum version of Windows you need to support? Assuming XP SP2 (with Windows Media Player 9), I’d look at doing something like:

Audio:
WMA VBR Unconstrained at 48 Kbps if there’s occasional music or sound effects.
If it’s just voice you care about, you could use WMA Voice at 20 Kbps.

Video:
VC-1 Main VBR Constrained at 512×288
Average bitrate of whatever’s left after audio
Keyframe interval of 10 seconds
Turn on Denoise Filter
Turn off Closed GOP
And if you’ve got CPU time to burn, these options are slower-but-better:
Motion Chroma Search=Adaptive True Chroma
Motion Match Method=Adaptive

If you can afford

[Ben Waggoner]

IIRC, M=P frame, and N=B frame. So you probably want both to be 0.