[Jaime Abramson]

I’m sold, hit bitrate mpeg2 it is 🙂

I had no idea the quality loss in recompressing for air would be that minimal. Our MCC currently masteres EVERYTHING to BetaSP (why? because we’re so at the leading edge of technology!) so comparable or better quality would be a great thing for us.

I figure I’ll say uncompressed material preferred, although Chris has got a point about download/upload time. So uncompressed media delivered on disc or external drive is preferred. And for sending via FTP I’ll make some mpeg2 presets. I also like the thought that there aren’t too many mpeg2 specs to screw up 🙂

Thank you all for the help!

[Jaime Abramson]

Thanks for the help guys!

We actually do accept spots via DG and VYVX also, but would also like to give clients the option to upload to our corporate FTP site (for free, unlike DG and friends). We’ll be taking the uploaded spots and using Flip Factory to compress for air.

I’m hesitant to put on our content spec sheet that we’d accept H.264s or mpeg2s or anything compressed because of the fact that we’d be compressing further for air (we make highly compressed mpeg2s similar to DVD compression). In order to ensure quality, I’d really like to stress the uncompressed side of things, but also give an option for slight compression considering it could take some time to upload/download a 2min VOD segment. That’s what led me to thinking we could allow clients to use DV compression when sending spots, since we also accept DV on tape.

Am I off base in thinking this way? Should I move away from the DV compression idea and create our content spec sheet based on what Flip Factory can accomodate, even though compressing an H264 file to an mpeg2 might not be wise? Or should I go the other way and say only uncompressed material (considering most of our clients wont understand that anyway)?