[Scott Mitchell]

Thanks for the advice re: size.

I thought that 500K max made sure that it would never use more than that on any given frame. So, in essence, I thought that I was saying “if you don’t need 500K then, don’t use 500K … but never go ABOVE 500K”

To me, it would seem that this should yield the same (or worse) result than 500K CBR.

[Scott Mitchell]

Based on the feedback and my tinkering, this seems like a bitrate issue.

Interestingly enough, if I use VBR with 500K ave / 500K max instead of CBR at 500K, the video looks MUCH better. This makes no sense (to me) other than the fact that the VBR seems to do a 2 pass encode.

Indeed, that background was not a good choice. Maybe next year we will have more input into the production instead of post, post, post production.

Re: 2-3M bitrate. For YouTube = yes. For viewing at home or a small business over a fat pipe / cable modem = yes.

However, large US based corporations often have limited “functional” bandwidth for their end users. The last 15 clients that I have worked with (all Fortune 500) used 500K as their MAX allowable threshold for RIA apps.

I’m sure that all of us would agree that best approach is to provide multiple levels of quality and, ideally, smooth streaming. Our current strategy, however, is to get the lowest bitrate looking as good as possible and bumping up bitrate from there.

While not new to enterprise software and network architecture, I am very new to video encoding. Does the above sound like a reasonable approach?

[Scott Mitchell]

OK. So boosting bitrate to 10,000K solves the problem … but not really because I need to get this to 500K.

Any expert opinions out there re: whether this will be possible?

[Scott Mitchell]

Oh…and I should have mentioned…this is ultimately destined to be streamed on the web at 500K. Is bit rate the problem here?

[Scott Mitchell]

Thanks for the response. Apologies if this shows up twice — I am a new user and my first attempt did not post. Not sure if I was caught in moderation or if there was a tech error.

We were not in charge of the shoot. As far as I (we) know, ProRes is the best source available.

I am not editing the .MP4. I am editing in Vegas and rendering to .mp4 using MainConcept.

I am deinterlacing (at least as far as I know) under Project Settings. I’ve tried both “blend” and “interpolate”

Here is the file (if you have a moment to check it out)
https://drop.io/vegasfiles202/asset/cw2010-barneyfrank1-mp4

Thanks in advance!
Password is: vegasfiles202

[Scott Mitchell]

Thanks for the response.

We were not in charge of the shoot. As far as I (we) know, this is the only source available. We were told that the camera used ProRes as codec for saving the file.

I am not editing the .MP4. I am editing in Vegas and rendering to .mp4

Here is a very short snip that demonstrates the issue (if you have the time to take a quick look – 750Kb)

https://drop.io/vegasfiles202/asset/cw2010-barneyfrank1-mp4

Password: vegasfiles202