Rootclip

Hey, I'll submit a chapter for Hole and Corner later this week, and started wondering how you recompress the uploaded videos?

I've seen the submission guidelines, but if it's going to be recompressed into a flash video with the same/a similar bit rate, then it's going to lose some quality that it didn't need losing.

So basically what I'm asking is.. what bit rate is the videos at the site? And is it ok if I encode it to a higher bit rate?

Thanks :)

I'm not quite sure, aside from the guidelines you mentioned.

I've followed those to a t in the past and still ended up with some pretty compressed looking video. I've jacked around with it a bit and still it comes out with a lower quality version, unfortunately. Ideally, we could do the flash conversion/compression on our side to get the best picture quality possible.

I think the reason you can't is because they need to combine it with the player, and that all happens during the conversion to flash.

Yeah, uploading our own compressed and ready version would be cool!

If not, I'm tempted to upload a version with double the bitrate that's recommended to lose as little quality as possible.. or is that a no-no? Admins?

I've uploaded many different bitrates, they are automatically reformatted by the player (or the server). I'm not sure if its better to do the higher bitrate, or get it as close as what is going to be shown as to not have the re-encoding have to do as much compression.

Ah, I see. But I'm thinking that having an as clean video input (little noise) as possible will result in a better result than if the recompressor has to try to compress the noise as well.. hm.

Would be nice to get someone in the know to answer this question!

Unfortunately, uploading at a higher bitrate won't help you. Our video vendor encodes everything at a max bitrate. I can't remember what that is now, but I'll try to track it down.

Yeah, I understand that I won't get any higher bitrate on the output, I'm just thinking that a cleaner image (with a higher bitrate) into the video encoder will get a cleaner image out! Makes sense?

It does make sense, but there is a size limit to the files you can upload. Be mindful of that.