5 Minutes: Sights of Shinjuku

-Paul — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 22:03:42 +0000

Join me on a stroll from Shinjuku West to East and back again.

Please head over to Vimeo to see this and my other videos and High Definition.

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Encoding HD Video for Vimeo

-Paul — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 00:58:29 +0000

One of the problems with HD Video is the massive video file produced and trying to share that video with the world. For example a 5 minute 1280×786 High Definition video file is about 330 megabytes. Sure you can upload to Youtube but the quality is really bad and looks like it was taken with a video phone.

The best solution for sharing HD video is currently Vimeo which allows the HD playback. Unfortunately at the moment Vimeo doesn’t have a premium service that removes the 500meg per week upload limit. So basically I get to upload 1 HD 5 minute video from my Xacti HD800 per week or I have to re-encode my video to reduce the size, I now use the later and now I don’t kneed a premium service…

At home I use a Macbook and have settled on Final Cut Express 4 as my video producing software, it has a good mix of easy to use and enough advanced features for most.

My first attemp was screwed up because I didn’t set the Sequence Properties before starting so trash 1 hours work.

So after I made my movie and added sound tracks etc I exported the final movie with the following settings.

Make Sure the Format is MPEG-4

Set the Video Format to H.264 and Data Rate to 4000kbts/sec, this made my 5 minute video about 150 Meg, small enough for 3 videos a week…

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5 Minutes: Sights of Shinjuku

Encoding HD Video for Vimeo