Secret Settings?

Sherman

Sherman

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What are best settings for .wmv render to maximize quality and minimize size.
Files are being viewed online. Download time is a consideration. Five minute video is almost 18 mb. Looks great,---but way big.
 
I've got a 4:10 vid that comes in at 8 MB. Good enough?

My settings for it:

480x272
"Best"
Audio: Quality VBR WMV 9.1 90 qual 48 Khz
Video: Quality VBR, 24 fps, 3 seconds/keyframe, Square Pixels

Mine is widescreen. 4:3 would be...um....some other numbers instead of 480x270. :grin:

ALSO: it depends a lot on the video content. I've got another one that is 6 minutes and change and it comes in at 18 MB. Different images compress to different sizes.
 
Rendered again at 256 Kps.
Twice the compression.
Half the size.
It's acceptable.
Gotta watch the long disolves though,----as they get really watery.
Keeping disolves to no longer than 1 second, and the wavy-ness isn't that apparent.
This is a good exercise from another standpoint.
That being,----the effective simplicity of a simple cut.
No sure I lost much of the emotion in his project by dropping the long disolves.
I rather like the cuts,----and let the music carry the emotions.
 
Try encoding at quarter size -- 320x240. You can get a lot higher quality into the same file size, good enough that you can view it at 200% (640x480) and it often looks better than if you had tried to compress an actual 640x480 frame that small.
 
Ooh, THAT'S an interesting note. I'll have to try that. Problem is, though, how much of the audience is going to think to expand the image to 200%? It's amazing how many computer illiterate people I still come across that would just never think of doing that.
 
The only problem is that there's no substitute for the higher resolution if you have important text, etc.. But if you don't, encoding the smaller resolution with higher quality takes care of the dissolve wash and other compression issues.
 
David Jimerson said:
Try encoding at quarter size -- 320x240. You can get a lot higher quality into the same file size, good enough that you can view it at 200% (640x480) and it often looks better than if you had tried to compress an actual 640x480 frame that small.
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David,
What about for TV, if that produces good quality clips on the web, what about TV/DVD, etc?
 
For DVD, use the DVD Architect templates under the MPEG-2 render.

This will take care of TV, unless you're going back to tape -- then you just go to Tools>Print Video to Tape. Use a standard DV template, and if it's 24p, use 2:3 pulldown.
 
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