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.
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Clip
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Hardware
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Software
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Configuration Settings
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Audio Settings |
Encoding time
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File size
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Target Bandwidth
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Output Format
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Frame Rate
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Clip Length
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Output Size
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Staffing Costs
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Dell Optiplex GX400 P4 1.4 Ghz 256M RAM Windows XP Professional |
Adobe Premiere 6.01 for capture
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Manual crop |
Windows Media Audio V8 16-bit 16-bit |
broadband 512K and 256K modem 56K |
Windows Media Video V8 |
30 fps 15 fps |
640X426 240X160 176X144 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 56K176X144fps10 | 3 M | 176X144 | ||||||||||
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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
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| 225Kpda208X160fps20 | 225Kbps | 17 M | 20 | 208X160 | ||||||||
| 225Kpda320X240fps15 | 225 Kbps | 16 bit/22kHz stereo | 16.6M | 15 | 320X240 |