I have been trying to get my original music video on the internet with horrible results for the audio. I tried youtube and vimeo. I found both had equally bad audio and in addition vimeo made my crossfades look awful. I think they changed something because there are a lot of recent complaints on their forum. I think youtube has lowered their audio quality because I have seen past videos there that sounded good.
I am now going to try veoh which got high ratings from pcmagazine and has no file size limitations. I will remix my soundtrack with the original dark piano. It takes "several hours" for them to transcode the video. They use multiple formats which is a good sign I think.
Video Sharing On The Internet
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Re: Video Sharing On The Internet
Vimeo's quality is good if you use the correct encoders before uploading so that they are not RE-encoding for streaming.
If you stick with high-res avi's and maybe avoid mpegs, you may get better results.
Looking forward to seeing the video and hearing your playing!!!
Greg
If you stick with high-res avi's and maybe avoid mpegs, you may get better results.
Looking forward to seeing the video and hearing your playing!!!
Greg
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Re: Video Sharing On The Internet
Sure,
Uploading to veoh now and it says it will take over 3 hours so we are talking 5 hours or more until it is public!
Uploading to veoh now and it says it will take over 3 hours so we are talking 5 hours or more until it is public!
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Update:
Of the video services I have tried, Youtube, Vimeo and Veoh, Veoh definitely looks and sounds best but there is an ad at the start of your video. It's worth it to me. This has inspired me to try and find a better audio codec. I don't want people to think I'm a bad engineer.
More rendering and uploading!
Of the video services I have tried, Youtube, Vimeo and Veoh, Veoh definitely looks and sounds best but there is an ad at the start of your video. It's worth it to me. This has inspired me to try and find a better audio codec. I don't want people to think I'm a bad engineer.
More rendering and uploading!
Re: Video Sharing On The Internet
If you let ANY of these services transcode from a web-delivery (very compressed) format to their web-delivery format you're going to notice quite a bit of 'loss'. It's possible that your particular settings are more transparent to the format that Veoh is transcoding to.
Vimeo should actually have an option to upload a relatively high-level version of your file. Not exactly uncompressed, but more like MPEG2 or Mpeg4+AAC with very very high compression settings. Up until recently it they were letting you 'keep' this higher level version on their servers even with free accounts for re-encoding as you wished, at this point though that requires a Plus account. It's unfortunate because this gave you the option to 'play around' a bit with encoding settings for final Vimeo encoding.
Youtube is pretty limited in terms of what you can upload, but if you're not afraid of command line encoding tools there's a lot of community-based information out there about what formats to encode to with what settings for the 'best' conversion. Youtube SD won't retain much anyway, but it will help the HD versions a bit if you prep your files properly.
Vimeo should actually have an option to upload a relatively high-level version of your file. Not exactly uncompressed, but more like MPEG2 or Mpeg4+AAC with very very high compression settings. Up until recently it they were letting you 'keep' this higher level version on their servers even with free accounts for re-encoding as you wished, at this point though that requires a Plus account. It's unfortunate because this gave you the option to 'play around' a bit with encoding settings for final Vimeo encoding.
Youtube is pretty limited in terms of what you can upload, but if you're not afraid of command line encoding tools there's a lot of community-based information out there about what formats to encode to with what settings for the 'best' conversion. Youtube SD won't retain much anyway, but it will help the HD versions a bit if you prep your files properly.
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I finally got rid of all the distortion with the EQ. The piano I was using with sustain made horrible overtones. I found a great audio codec called "Big Endian". I figured out the compressor so it doesn't distort so I am uploading to Veoh now and it's going to take nearly 4 hours to upload 600 megabytes! At least they have an uploader program with pause. The 500 megabyte limit at vimeo wasn't working for me among other annoyances.
Update: Veoh puts ads on top of your video. That is uncool. I think I will delete it and go back to youtube.
Valis, I put a video on youtube with no compression and it looked amazing but would not play smoothly all the way through.
Update: Veoh puts ads on top of your video. That is uncool. I think I will delete it and go back to youtube.
Valis, I put a video on youtube with no compression and it looked amazing but would not play smoothly all the way through.