Welcome. I love animation and high def, so Im looking forward to seeing your stuff.
Your plan sounds good to me. The devil is in the bitrate you choose, and a few other encoding options. Your choices of resolution sound good. Cheers Steve Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Benjamin Green" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, My name is Ben, I'm from Sydney Australia and I love animating. > I'm currently working on an animated podcast and I would really > appreciate your opinion on which formats I should provide. > > Right now I'm thinking of rendering out a 640x360 version and encoding > it as a H264/AAC MP4, then uploading it to Blip.tv where their system > will take care of transcoding it to FLV and an iPod compatible M4V, > that gets the episode online relatively quickly and with little > trouble. > > Thing is I also want to offer proper HD as an option so after that > I'll render out a 1920x1080 version, then scale a copy to 1280x720 > before encoding them both to H264/AAC MP4 again and adding them as > additional HDTV files on Blip.tv. > > As you've already noticed I'm planning to stick to widescreen formats, > fact is designing for both 4:3 and 16:9 would be a bit of a pain and > I'd rather have video's that'll play nice with future video standards > that are already being adopted rather than what's currently common. > > What do you reckon? > I am really looking forward to your responses and participating with > the community, > Thanks! >