HD Video Content Help
 

Hey everyone, about to re-launch our main site with a ton of HD video updates. Starting to get a little peaved with sizes and formats. What do you guys recommend on the encoding level and sizes. What programs do you use. Or whats an ideal WMV size/format to use thats server friendly and high quality.

Thanks!

Sorenson Squeeze 4.5, Cleaner XL 1.5 or Canopus Procoder 3 are the best full featured encoding apps for Windows. 1280 x 720 frame size on the large end, with at least a 3500 Kbps video bitrate or higher looks pretty nice; 480 x 270 if you want a small frame sized version at 1500 Kbps.

It has to be either 1280x720 or 1920x1080 to be HD. Any other video size is NOT HD. Use VBR around 4000 Kbps and windows encoder (free). The 1280x720p ones I make look awesome. I would never encode in 1920x1080 because the file size is outrageous.

As long as you have over 700 vertical lines your ok, and a bit rate at least 3-4k as mentioned. I agree encoding in 1080 is overkill, for web anyway.

on2 FLV yo.

why should i.

try some wmv's at 200K... that should do the trick. That'll make 'em niiiiice and chummy for ya'.