Two of my good friends — Steve Garfield and Zadi Diaz — are two of the videobloggers doing the best job at encoding high-quality video into different formats. The other day I asked Zadi how she creates multiple versions of the videos in her videoblo/video podcast JetSet, which has its own home here as well as on Blip. For example, this episode, titled cannibalism, tasers, thankfulness, appears in various sizes as:
• iPod movie on iTunes
• DivX
• TVTonic on Windows Media Center
That’s impressive. Here’s what she said:
After I edit everything in Final Cut Pro and output to a FCP
QuickTime movie, I convert them all through a program called
Compressor, which came with Final Cut Pro. It can be done through FCP
though, Compressor just makes it all automatic. With FCP you have to do
each compression manually.Blip.tv
only converts to Flash, you would have to encode the others for the
format that you would want. A friend just told me about tversity (http://www.tversity.com/) which does automatic conversions. I have yet to try it out.We
put out stuff in the larger file sizes for folks who want to watch it
on their media server. So we have a large wmv file that we provide. And
we’ll be providing a large mov file for the new Apple iTV media stuff.
We transcode for convenience — but surprisingly most of our downloads
come from our mobile feed right now.
Later: Steve adds: “I use Compressor too. I’ve just started testing out Hey!Watch.” Figured some service would step into this space.
JD Lasica, founder of Inside Social Media, is also a fiction author and the co-founder of the cruise discovery engine Cruiseable. See his About page, contact JD or follow him on Twitter.
Yes it’s been a while since I regaled in compression technology ie the days of media cleaner, but Popwires’s Compression Master aint bad. It’s one of the products Apple rubs shoulders with at its partnering executive briefings flashed up to the broadcast industry. There’s a video report somewhere.. now where is it?
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