best codec for facebook video

[Jordan_S]

Is it better to compress as close to the facebook codec as possible (knowing that it will most likely be recompressed) or to compress as little as possible, remaining just below max file size knowing, again, it will be recompressed?

Does anyone know facebook's exact compression settings? If compressed and sent in like this, is it possible that the video would not be recompressed?

I've sent a question to FB but received no reply.

Also, is there a way to avoid compression out of say, Pemiere or AE, w/o sticking the file in a huge container, like avi or quicktime?

Thoughts/ related knowledge most welcome.

Jordan

 

[Demistate]

I do not have direct expierence with Facebook Video. Unless you can find the magic formula where the video doesn't get transcoded, it's always best to upload the best visually lossless file that you possibly can while fitting within the upload size constraints. High bitrates on h.264 can achieve this (10+megabits per second)

If your video were to be re-transcoded later down the line, the quality on your file would improve automatically.

 

[Rick Sustek]

I was wondering the exact same things you stated, but I haven't had any luck finding the answers either.

Also, I don't quite get your second query about avoiding compression and large container files. The overhead of the QuickTime file format is quite small compared to sample data in the tracks. The overall size is thus most affected by choice of codec and codec settings.

-Rick

 

[OSV]

the container type isn't an issue, just do it like demistate said... the highest h.264 bitrate you can squeeze into the upload file size limit.

in general, it's best to re-size the frame size in your editor, not with the encoding software... in other words, you also want to match whatever frame size facebook is going to be encoding it at.