Disagree again gentlemen. I spoke with two clients today who both view production company clips on their home connection. And if you have 768 DSL but you are at the fringe distance from the box, you are sometimes lucky to get 384 performance. Concerning Flash Video, I still find it quite annoying when it starts up, stutters a bit, then jumps forward, continues a bit, stutters some more and on and on.
My clients have consistently commented on how fast our site loads and how effortless our clips play.
Are you willing to wait more than even 30 seconds to see a clip? Doesn’t everyone crave instant on? Smooth playback without stutter? Perhaps we are just a bit arrogant to think that our clips are so fantastic that clients will wait and wait for them to load…all 30 frames because each one is so important. Stereo audio, because you know, they might have their headphones on and I want them to capture all that left right audio keyframing I worked on.
I’m simply arguing for the fast, smooth, no stutter playback.
At home or at work.
Two ways to get there? 15fps and mono audio, which is my suggestion and I’m sticking to it.
Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media