The end of this entry has buttons and links to play any of four different test clips (each of a bird and/or my son “Mago”).  I’d use the “play in popup” link first, starting with the last (the smallest).

The first clip is 1920 horizontal lines by 1080 vertical lines in the Sorensen 3 codec and some blah (I’m guessing) audio codec (Sony Vegas Pro lets me export to Quicktime, but not with AAC. Why?).

The second clip is 1920 x 1080 by Quicktime Pro (from an uncompressed .avi I exported from Vegas) with the H.264 codec (It seems that’s Apple’s newest video codec? - which I’m only guessing gets better mileage than Sorensen 3?) and with AAC audio at 192 Khz.

Both those files are blasted huge (45 to 55MB for a few seconds!?), so I’m realizing I just gotta sacrifice some video and audio quality for more compression..

The third clip uses Sorensen 3 and some crummy audio at 1280 x 720 resolution.

The fourth uses H.264 and AAC (like the second) and is 720 x 540.

Again, click “play in popup” to play any of these - I suggest the last one first - I wonder if the others will even load without a lot of patience..

For anyone curious I’ve started putting up notes on video encoding/distribution in my wiki (more - maybe a lot more - could aggregate there over time - I’ll see. The page title is far broader than the video notes there now).

 
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