How do shocase your trailers & how do you find Vimeo HD? Need advice!

BrianMurphy

BrianMurphy

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My producer asked me to post a short 5 minute trailer for a program we have been working on for the past year. We set up a Vimeo HD account with the 1gig per week max and I proceeded to output the video in QT H264 to as close as I could come to the limit. I ended up with about 875 meg file. I uploaded it and all went well.
That was until the distributor in Hawaii had problems with it stuttering and such. It works fine from my home connection, my producers, and several family members. The producer sent an email out to a dozen friends to test it and very mixed results came back.
Now I realize and have told him as well that we cannot account for each persons connection, processor speed, level of software (flash) etc. The bottom line is that it is not consistent and when you are looking to have potential buyers view your trailer it needs to be there every time.
Should I use Sorrenson squeeze and then upload?
Should I forget Vimeo?
Should I look into BluRay as an option or just send a QT file.
Thanks
Brian
 
Hey Brian, I uploaded an HD and SD version of a short I did if you want to see how they differ...

hd version...
http://vimeo.com/8286280

sd version...
http://vimeo.com/8301844


As far as how they were compressed, the HD version..
Compressed in Adobe Media Encoder
Format: H.264 blu-ray HDTV 1080P 24 High Quality
Video: 1920x1080, 24FPS, Pixel Aspect WS 16:9, VBR 2 Pass
Target Bit Rate 10Mbps, Max Bit Rate 15Mbps
Audio: Dolby Digital, Frequency 48khz, Bitrate 448
Multiplexer: TS, constant, Mux Rate 0kb, Video Buffer 0kb, Audio Buffer 4kb
Total file size: 1.5GB

The SD version...
Compressed in Adobe Media Encoder
NTSC DV Quality


Basically what I can tell you is most computers out there are not capable of playing HD footage. Even my old laptop cannot play HD footage. And a friend of mine who watched the HD version said it was really choppy on the pans but the SD version was a lot smoother on the pans for him. The reason being, their computer isn't really up to handling HD footage. They are on a pentium 4 with around 3gb ram. And an old nvidia 256 graphics card. I've got a quad core with a graphics card that has an HDMI connection on it.

I think what's critical in playing HD footage properly isn't so much the chipset or ram but really the graphics card and most people either don't spend the money in that department unless they are a pc gamer or have purchased a newer computer recently.

So I think the sd version is still important. Also for your reference, Vimeo lists the cap at 1gb, but you can actually go up to 1.5gb on the flash uploader and desktop uploader last time I checked. That's for the plus account.
 
Correct me if I'm wrong, but your encoder settings - with the exception of preserving quality - should have no impact on the online viewing since Vimeo (and pretty much all Flash-based video sites) re-encode it anyway... Even if it's already in their format.

That being said, it's truly an irritating situation when numerous people have differing configurations, a poor understanding of playback, or simply the inability to open up files based on a lack of software.... Usually all three.

GoodLuck said:
I think what's critical in playing HD footage properly isn't so much the chipset or ram but really the graphics card and most people either don't spend the money in that department unless they are a pc gamer or have purchased a newer computer recently.
Click to expand...

Actually, for the most part, this is not true. We have CUDA and OpenCL making their ways with H264 decoding in particular (and by extension of Blu-ray support, MPEG2 and VC-1... though these are rarely, if ever, online), but most H264 decoding is done purely in software. Adobe is implementing hardware decoding for its flash player I believe, but I don't think it's in the general release yet, while current hardware decoding solutions (Premiere's handling of AVCHD, and even better, CoreAVC's CUDA support) are only for local files, not online.
 
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