Hi Jay, Thanks for the quick reply. Here's a video I shot last summer while on a 50 mile bike ride. I shot it with my Flip Mino SD, so granted some of the handheld on bike action is a little herky-jerky. I've posted all the videos from all the services I have accounts with at http://libraryvoice.com/technology/facebook-video-is-actually-pretty-good , so you should be able to get a decent comparison of the video formats there. All I did for the videos was stitch them with FlipShare, and then render them as 640x480 WMV (the only choice). All services received the same file for conversion.
On a different note, I do make my own FLV for screencasts and then upload that to Blip. I generally record my screen with Camstudio and then convert the AVI file to FLV with a program called Quick Media Converter (it's free). I only use the Easy conversion settings on the program, and my eyes think the result is slightly better than the flash conversion at Blip. Quick Media Converter (http://www.cocoonsoftware.com/) has some advance settings as well (two pass encoding, bit rate, etc) but I haven't gotten around to messing with those settings. Perhaps that could be a way to make a better flash file and then upload to Blip. Thanks, Chad On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Jay dedman <jay.ded...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I've been using Blip.TV for quite some time for nearly all of my video > blog > > posts and other video projects, for both work and fun. I love the service > > and the features, but have started to become a little disappointed with > the > > final flash video after conversion. If you upload the same video to Blip, > > Vimeo, YouTube, and Facebook, the Blip version that is converted seems to > be > > the worst in the bunch. I'm generally only uploading SD video, if that > > makes any difference. I don't plan on moving away from Blip any time > soon, > > as the other features (playlists, cross posting, customized player, > custom > > thumnails, etc) are the reasons I stay with Blip. However, I was > wondering > > if any of you have any suggestions for getting better quality out of the > > Blip video player. Are there tricks I can employ on my end to make my > file > > more friendly to conversion? I'm a low budget windows user, so typically > my > > files are WMV (Flip video SD) or Mov (Canon SD 780 IS), and I > occasionally > > still shoot video with and older Canon MiniDV (edit in moviemaker and > output > > as WMV). Is there a file type or size that Blip may like better for > better > > quality conversion to flash? The other three seem to take WMVs just fine > > and crunch them well, but perhaps there's something better I should be > > looking at when uploading to Blip. > > I'd love to hear some folks chime in as well. > Chad, do you have a video that youve uploaded to several different sites? > It would help to actually see how each site has Flash converted the same > video. > > A big thing is blip's favor is that they host the original video you > upload. We convert our own Flash video and just upload that so we can > be assured of the quality. > > Jay > > -- > http://ryanishungry.com > http://jaydedman.com > http://twitter.com/jaydedman > 917 371 6790 > > -- Chad F. Boeninger libraryvoice.com - blog libraryvoice.com/videos - videoblog twitter.com/cfboeninger [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: videoblogging-dig...@yahoogroups.com videoblogging-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: videoblogging-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
