When I’d like to convert my videos into different formats, I often utilize a service called encoding dot com. In ‘encoding’ I’ll say this is for streaming one of the best web applications, versus this is for download. The video puts the size at the start or the end to point out it’s for streaming.
When I export out of either ScreenFlow or iMovie I’m always setting the optimized for streaming option on the MP4option. Always do that. Then I push them into encoding to get the various versions. I put the best quality version up to YouTube and because we’re generally offering free content we’re using that for streaming so we don’t have to pay for the band width. Because I’ve optimized for streaming anyway if I had put it on Amazon, I had my own private player, it would still be optimized for streaming.
Another similar service is VisualHub. If you can get it, definitely use it. I’ve tried plenty of different video encoding software and I have found VisualHub is the best for our web video production Melbourne tasks. It is the most consistent. I was given some pictures from a customer in a format that my editing system failed to recognize because they had not given me everything that I required. I strove to convert the footage and I ended up getting this material, it’s called iSkySoft. It’s quite good but it is constrained in terms of what it’ll put out. This should be a second tier after VisualHub.
The other one is MPEG Streamclip. MPEG Streamclip is free, it is a free programme. It has got a player on it but it’s not superb, but it’s really good for changing photographs. I take footage out of my DSLR which is a compressed footage, which has been compressed and then I turn it into truly high level, prime quality footage, through an Apple codec that I use. So this is one of the best web applications you need to use as well that’s quite effective.
If all this material does not make sense, look in the Help, look up help files, it becomes quite simple after a bit.
Another great tool is Animoto. We have an Animoto review that you can see. Animoto rocks your world. Their tag line is called the end of slide shows. What it does, it’s got the most beautiful, easy to use interface. You just upload images, whatever you want, photos, logos, whatever you want. You put them in the order you want them to appear, you can add little titles with each one and then you hit ‘submit’ and it turns it into a slide show. What it does, it uses templates, getting cool effects and so on which are built on motion graphics programs. What this does is create things that would take you hours and hours and days to create.
It is free, it is free to do a 30 second clip or you can pay per clip. You can do a minute or longer and you pay $3 per thing or you can buy a subscription of roughly $30 a year and make Animotos. It’s one of the best web applications to just do something exciting, awfully hypey if you need to get it out there. It’s also a really good tool because where you put in text, and after you go in you can see, you can put in a title and a little bit of description, but it is very limited, like 20 characters and then perhaps sixty or something like that.
