Beginner Questions...

Chamber005

Chamber005

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So my friends and I are going to be doing some web-based SD media.

I've only ever posted a couple non-narrative videos on YouTube, and I was wondering if there's anything specific I need to do for the best possible result. For instance I see people write a lot about "compression" here and how important that is for the final result of the video. Not to be a complete 'tard, but what does compression mean exactly as it pertains to outputting a video?

My second query is that we have a website set up already. I was hoping to post the videos on YouTube and Exposure Room (though unfortunately not Vimeo as I've heard they convert everything to 24fps -- which leads to the jumpy quality?). But I'd also like to post the videos on our own site. They'll obviously be there for downloading, but can any of you recommend a video viewer add-on that is comperable with Exposure Room? Or, would you advise just embedding the video from Exposure Room onto our site? I don't REALLY care if the player is ours or not, though I'd prefer it.

So that's it,

1) when I have my .MOV file how do I get it onto the web with the best possible results?

2) any Exposure Room/Vimeo-level video players out there that I can purchase for my website? (or should I just post and then embed from Exposure Room)

3) how would you make for the easiest possible download for people who want to download your videos?

Thanks so much guys! I've been learning as I go with all of this!
 
you need to decide whether you are going to embed a .mov quicktime video into your website, or whether you are going to embed a flash video file (flv) into your website. You will find that flv files are more compatible with people computers, but quicktime has a better quality video. You can however upload .mov files to be streamed to flv player. This latter option is what I use to have a high quality video streamed to my webpage.
 
kruzmode said:
you need to decide whether you are going to embed a .mov quicktime video into your website, or whether you are going to embed a flash video file (flv) into your website. You will find that flv files are more compatible with people computers, but quicktime has a better quality video. You can however upload .mov files to be streamed to flv player. This latter option is what I use to have a high quality video streamed to my webpage.
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Quicktime is not a single file format. Its both a container and system for handling temporal data. The h.264 codec for example is just one of many which can be used for encoding/decoding a Quicktime movie. h.264 recently became supported by the Adobe flash video environment. ie. You can encode flash video into h.264 and produce an .f4v file. This is what the encoder from Main Concept does.

You can also play a Quicktime movie file encoded using h.264 directly with the current flash video player without doing any kind of conversion. Its h.264 that has everyone flapping about quality, not a container type.
 
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