University of Texas Digital Video Producers Group
GSLIS Entry by Quinn Stewart

Best Practices for Digital Video Compression- We're Texas Video

This document presents a matrix of compressed digital video clips in Windows Media Format.

 

Clip
Hardware
Software
Configuration Settings
Audio Settings
Encoding time
File size
Target Bandwidth
Output Format
Frame Rate
Clip Length
Output Size
Staffing Costs

 

 

Dell Optiplex GX400 P4 1.4 Ghz 256M RAM

Windows XP Professional

Adobe Premiere 6.01 for capture


Cleaner 5.1.1 for encoding

Manual crop
2-pass VBR
Deinterlace(auto)
Accurate scaling
Noise reduce
Keyframe 100

Windows Media Audio V8

16-bit
44kHz stereo
64kbps

16-bit
22.050kHZ stereo
32kbps

broadband 512K and 256K

modem 56K

Windows Media Video V8

30 fps

15 fps

640X426

320X212

240X160

176X144

 
        2.15 GB 10:22    
WT640X480fps29 1712Kbps max. 64 kbps 76M 29.97 640X480
WT320X240fps15 320Kbps 32 kbps 28M 15 fps 320X240
256K320X240fps29 256Kbps 64Kbps 29M 29.97 320X240
512K Single-rate stream

Video-best image v. smoothest image
2 pass VBR
512K320X240fps29best best image 64 kbps 48M 512K 29.97 320X240
512K320X240fps29smooth smoothest image 64 kbps 48M 512K 29.97 320X240
56K Single-rate stream
Modem
Audio-Voice Only
Video-Sharpest image
2 pass VBR
no output monitoring
56K176X144fps10 3 M 176X144

Dell Optiplex GX400 P4 1.4 Ghz 256M RAM

Windows XP Professional

Windows Movie Maker 1.2

Video for color PDA devices

Full-screen video for color PDA devices

 

225Kpda208X160fps20     225Kbps     17 M     20   208X160  
225Kpda320X240fps15 225 Kbps 16 bit/22kHz stereo 16.6M 15 320X240