Adding Flash Video to a website without using a service like Vimeo or YouTube can be challenging if you are not a Flash Action Script expert. Maybe you have a intranet or paid content site and you need to host the video files on your own server and want to display the files in a [...]
Don’t have a camera that can shoot HD? Need HD stock footage for compression testing or maybe a few high resolution textures for your next project? Look no further than OpenFootage.net. Offering up gorgeous timelapse shots at 1080p, 720p, PAL, and NTSC, all of their content is available for free under a [...]
Vimeo is not the newest kid on the block offering free video sharing, but that doesn’t stop them from having some of the coolest features in the neighborhood. I can sum it all up in two letters “HD”, and I mean for real — 1280×720p high-quality Flash Video. Not too many other sites can top [...]
Keep these tips handy for the next time you encode video.
Deinterlace your source video
Choose a frame size where the width and height are evenly divisible by 16
Maintain the aspect ratio of your source video
Crop any empty space (like letter boxing) and crop/scale to remove edge jaggies around your video
Select bitrates that are appropriate for your [...]
To accompany his latest book on Flash Video, Robert Reinhardt has developed a awesome bitrate calcuator you can use to figure out target bitrates for your web video.
http://www.flashsupport.com/books/fvst/files/tools/flv_bitrate.html
Also, if you haven’t read his latest book, be sure to check it out. 5 Stars at Amazon! Here is a brief description:
From pre-production to post, [...]
Squared 5 has released one of the few free solutions for encoding H.264 QuickTime MOV files that includes a graphical user interface. Since it uses the QuickTime 7 Player’s rendering engine, you must have the free player installed. A side benefit to this is that it will allow you export to the same codecs as [...]
Whether you are encoding to QuickTime or Flash Video, it is a best practice to ensure that the width and height of your video is evenly divisible by 16. Although some modern codecs do not require this, it is best to keep it in mind for all your projects to guarantee the [...]
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