Metro | Encoding

Tests are complete and the conclusions are in.  We know everything we need to know.

Sorenson Squeeze 6 – first look and bug check – speed tests and conclusions

YouTube announces that it will now display 1080p video:

http://youtube-global.blogspot.com

…no word on how big their actual player will be, but hopefully larger than the 480p they are now calling “HD.”

Metro Encoding has been compressing and uploading 720p video to YouTube for our clients for the last two years. It will be a slight relief to not resize the 1080p video down.  Feel free to send us your HDCAM content!

Bill has posted a beginners guide to figuring out video bitrates. What do they represent and what’s right for your next project:

Video Bitrate | “What Bitrate Should I Use?”

Video Resolution is confusing and many major online sites get it wrong. Here’s a brief explanation of the two leading mistakes:

Video Resolution – Mistakes Were Made

“Alright, that’s a bit extreme. I hate Streaming QuickTime. More specifically, I hate “hinting” files for a QuickTime streaming server. QuickTime, or Apple, has left their streaming capabilities to die. At the same time they have never completely embraced H264… ” More

We spend a lot of our time explaining Web Video to our clients and friends. Most of our explanations presuppose a certain amount of knowledge, and we’ve always thought about ways to pass that knowledge along.

Found today, the best basic explanation of Web Video we’ve seen to date:

Dive into HTML 5 – Video

If you only want to know the basics, read the first sections. If you are interested in HTML5 and the proposed <video> tag, keep reading.

Metro Encoding is now geared up for Blu-ray encoding.   Coming from HDCAM we can encode to Blu-ray specifications in MPEG-2, H.264 (AVC) and VC-1.  PCM or Dolby Digital audio is available.