Panoramic stitched from atop Fu Ta at YRGZ.
-BOB-
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Try the SUPER DUPER CRUNCHED VERSION!
20 kpbs video
50 px wide enlarged to 640 px wide
0.1 mb
Okay, that’s a bit much, but I just ran a bunch of tests and found out that my current settings (1024 video kbps ,etc) is way overkill. Also, audio can be set at the very lowest (mono, 8bit, etc). I just did a test at 300 video kpbs, cut the dimensions by 75%, and it is almost the same as this 11 meg file in terms of video quality, but the file size is 1 meg (of course you have to resize the QT file back up, but for 90% off the file size, I’ll take it.)
-BOB-
We entertained over twenty guests today from 1 o’clock to 11 o’clock. For dinner we went to a restaurant (this one, actually) and ate lamb hot pot. You all know what hot pot is. It was hella good. I have to say, before Cirque and China, I never had lamb. Or maybe I did but I don’t remember. Probably because we were poor East Oakland folk who only ate mashed potatoes and meat loaf, with ketchup on top. Okay I’m joking, we had our share of Cheeto’s and Top Ramen, oh and don’t forget Eric’s “Rice, Tuna and Peas” creation in the plastic Tupperware bowl with the “big” spoon. (I copied that one a few times in Boston.)
So after the delectable hot pot we all walked to the house and everyone continued to play hours of mahjong. I was on tea duty and poured over 100 little cups of tea for everyone. We served Pu’er Cha (poo-’ARE), a Yunnan specialty that is very difficult to find outside of Yunnan. (My sources tell me that it sells for 10x the price in Beijing.) It’s fermented tea, comes in green and red, and has a unique production process (involving steaming and “compressing”). The green version is caffienated, so take it easy on that one.
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Compare, and let me know which you prefer in the future (basically the same export settings):
Flash Version | Quicktime Version
I’d be interested to see the difference in load times, picture quality, choppiness, etc. I’m on a slow connection, I can’t really test.
PS, I’m not really sure why the FLV is 18 mb and the QT is 40…
-BOB-
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This completes the tour of our house. View the first video (first floor) if you haven’t already seen it.
PS - I added a new CSS style for the movie attributes, then made a little table in 36-sec Dreamweaver and threw it in the blog. Fresh, huh?
UPDATE:
I exported this movie again Flash Video, and it took 11 minutes to export, as opposed to H.264, which took 26 minutes. After it uploads I’ll look at the video quality. All the settings are the same, but with this On2 Flix Exporter, I cannot crop the frame. File size was identical. View FLV export.
-BOB-
W I D E S C R E E N is the new black.
What it looks like in the morning at YRGZ (never saw it before.) Gotta clean the wide-angle adapter, or remove it. That reminds me, we need to get a mirror for our bathroom.
| Title | House Video #2 |
| Video | 600 kbps, 2-pass VBR |
| Audio | 40 AAC, mono |
| Dimenions | 600×310, preserve aspect ratio (crop) |
| Format | Quicktime |
| File Size | 7.1mb |
| Length | 1:21 (FCP compression time= 10 mins) |
| Sound | Narrative |
| Rated | G (All audiences) |
| Notes | Never using 600 vkpbs again. |
-BOB-
VIEW GALLERY
We just walked around Yi Ren Gu Zhen (YRGZ) and I took some pictures with the Italian Tripod and my trusty Rebel Digi.
Keeping you all in the loop.
-bob-