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Whatever feeling this evokes, the Chinese system of handling and selling meat seems to work. I never get sick, or food poisoning. So. Maybe I’m just used to all those little fritters crawling in the food. Yum.
Video Notes: 4.4 megs, 35 secs, Flash video
Title says it all. I just wanted to get a clip of this road that I’ve been telling people about. It’s a 5,000 foot drop off on the right side there.
Update: This POS Sony T-33 digital camera uses multiplexed MPEG-1/2 encoding. The Sony saved this 11-second clip as 15 megs. Converting it to FLV is 1.4 MB and, well, it’s about the same quality.
Next P&S digital I buy must have H.264 or On2 encoding, or I ain’t buying it.
First of all, here’s the official You Tube water buffalo movie.
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UPDATE JUNE 21, 2007: Apple announces h.264 for the iPhone — that probably means it works, or will work soon for regular uploads to YouTube.
UPDATE JUNE 1, 2007: Who knows what the future holds, as Google has just announced that it will encode H.264 movies for the Apple TV (and probably the iPhone, look out for those data rate fees to watch those cat videos). Can Apple convince Google to abandon Youtube.com’s current Flash Video format for H.264? Check back soon for more updates.
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On to encoding and uploading. (Personal note: I can’t believe You Tube doesn’t accept the latest Quicktime H.264 or On2 Flash Video 8 codecs.)
Here are optimal export settings for Final Cut, iMovie, Quicktime:
- Export to Flash video, using FLV MX (not the latest FLV 8 On2 codec)*
- Can use 2-pass VBR
- Scale to 320×240**
- Video = 1024 video kbps
- Audio = 128 kbps MPEG-3 audio
The Water Buffalo Movie was exported with those settings, and although You Tube resizes the dimensions to 424×318, it still looks good. It was a 50 meg export and You Tube probably chopped it down to 7-10 megs.
If anyone knows of other formats to export (from Quicktime) and upload to YouTube, please advise. (Ideally, it would be great to export to Quicktime H.264, 2-pass, 1024k video, 128 AAC, at the YouTube dimensons, and export a .MOV file to upload — unfortunately this doesn’t work well with YouTube.)
WATCH 4 GENERATIONS: The Water Buffalo Movie Comment »
“4 Generations” is a film short documenting my journey in southwestern China (near Tibet) to first find, then deliver a water buffalo to a poor family. The water buffalo led us to a family with an phenomenal story. Inspired by author, educator, and founder of photo.net, Philip Greenspun’s post, and donated by Philip and his friend Craig.
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We are leaving for Da Zhuan in a few hours. I’ll keep everyone updated on the progress. We may stay overnight there, so I’ll have my phone if anyone needs me.
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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.)
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