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vimeo.com/7176559
Plus It seems like I've lost my thumbnails.
vimeo.com/7934878
vimeo.com/7863636
captured stream for #6506428, Video bit rate is around 9mbps, frame rate has been reduced from 24fps to 20fps.
Running Firefox 3.5.6: OSX 10.6.1, Mac Book Pro, 2.16 GHz C2D, 3GB 667 MHz DDR2
vimeo.com/8915872
sony vegas platinum
vimeo preset
sony avc
profile main
entropy cabac
frame rate 29.97 ntsc
field non(progressive scan)
bit rate 7,000,000
not sure if these are the best but it seems to work
vimeo.com/7883183 to 1080p, I get a failed conversion message; am I doing ssomething wrong, or is this Vimeo's problem?
Video quality at 1080p seems quite good and better then at 720p, at least with these stop motion animations (the uploaded file was a mp4 near to 1Gb at 6fps...):
- vimeo.com/4987583
- vimeo.com/5493457
:-)
A lot will also depend on the camera. Many cameras such as Panasonic 151 can't produce more than an effective 720p resolution even though they have 1080p modes.
I see that you use the Canon 5D, and in my resolution tests this camera effectively reproduces a absolute maximum of 700 TV lines, closer to 600. So this may be one reason why there isn't much difference.
This is the exact same file on both youtube and vimeo. Xdcam rendered out as a Blu ray .m2t. 25mbps if I remember right. I think the vimeo looks better. Less artifacts.
youtube.com/watch?v=arQQs_SZgdo
vimeo.com/8452216