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Brasilian

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Greetings,

Been reading and watching clips untill I am overloaded with info.

Keeps coming back to this question:

Almost EVERY video I watch in HD on Vimeo or (of course YouTube)
keeps stopping and reloading - It is maddening and extremely frustrating as I want to have the great majority of my future work on the Web.

Is it because the files are still so "thick" in HD? If so am I way better off shooting in Standard Def for Web? I have read that it is always better to start with "best" footage and down rez to SD. If so does that still add to the "re-loading" nightmare of watching video stopping over and over and over making it seriously unwatchable. I have a great DSL and recent computer.

Am I alone in this frustration?

Any thoughts would be appreciated as I am sold on GH1 for simple music video's with the cool DOF and all, however, if the picture is "too good" that I am going to have it constantly re-loading I have to find a better delivery system and any suggestions for consistently seamless playback on web would be a great help.

With thanks
 
What do you mean? It does not load first. I press play THEN it begins to load, and stop, and load, and stop...

I must be really missing something????
 
When you press play, wait for the whole video to load and once it's loaded then you move the pointer back to replay it without pressing the play button again....
 
Are you kidding me? People will just move on before going through all of that. Is there any optimal resolution etc that will minimize the possibility of this terribly annoying issue?

Must be more takes out there on this?
 
HD is higher bitrate and will need a faster connection to load and play realtime. If you turn the HD off then you'll get more of youtube playback speed but much lower quality.

I have cable internet but lovely Time Warner sometimes slows down and I need to wait for it to load as well. You'll mostly see hiccups on lower end DSL connections or very shoddy cable service.
 
Brasilian said:
What do you mean? It does not load first. I press play THEN it begins to load, and stop, and load, and stop...

I must be really missing something????
Click to expand...

Well, one thing I can say for sure is that this is nothing to do with the camera and everything to do with the internet connection.

I found cable to be very poor when in Taiwan. ADSL is the way to go.

As for the GH1...buy with confidence. It is PERFECT for web video, HD or whatever... SD...
 
So the issue of how "thick" of a format I post the video in is not a factor? Isn't a lower rez video that "plays" smoothly, although clearly inferior in quality, still not 100x better than one that continually stops and starts?

I do appreciate the feedback as again my end delivery is going to be the web and just keep getting knocked back thinking, "I probably have as good or better of a computer/ Verizon FIOS than the average person attempting to view my/others video's and I find the "stopping" to be so often (not ALL the time) but enough to say, is this really going to be worth the bother?

I do of course appreciate the video art form in and of itself, no question. New and learning a lot, but always have the end in mind while enjoying the journey...I'm just hitting this hurdle (from simple observation) and considering if this is just "the way it is," and whether or not I understand the game (web delivery) properly.

With much thanks
 
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