[Dennis Lowe]

I had been playing around with a plugin by Mike Crash called Levels Correction that perports to lock the exposure down in a dynamic way but due to the lack of info or tutorials about it I finally gave up and moved on.

regards

dennis

[Dennis Lowe]

Hi Gord

I contacted their support and asked what their preferred settings were (they are very helpful by the way) and here are the ones they sent:

We recommend using Flix Pro8.5 with VP6 Codec
Recommended settings:
– Key Frame Settings: Max 60 Key frames
– Encoding Mode: 2 pass
– Rate control VBR
– Max bitrate ~400-500

and the size they recommend is:

640×360 or 720 x 405 if 16:9

The bitrate of course depends on how much action is in the sequence (talking heads means lower bitrates) I think mine were around the 550 mark.
With these settings you will bypass their automatic encoding procedure after uploading and gives you more control over quality.

Hope this helps

[Dennis Lowe]

I’ve been experimenting with various settings for web streaming and found the sweet spot to be with using flash VP6 encoder and uploading the file to a specialized streaming server, in my case they are a company called Video Streaming Provider.
Check out the test I did ( they give you 50 viewing points to play about with and cap your testing period to 3 days) after which you have to purchase viewing points etc.

https://lowedennis.googlepages.com/homemovies-straight

I think I have about 30 VP’s left so restarting the film will use up waste points.