May 30, 2007

Watching Video Interviews on Great Dance

A few people have emailed me saying that the video interviews I've uploaded are choppy and difficult to watch.

Below I provide background about this problem, but here's how to solve this issue first:

Click on the picture to start any of the video interviews I've done. The video will start. On the bottom left of video player, you'll see a pause button. Click the pause button to stop the video. Now, you'll see a dark gray line moving horizontally to the right indicating that the video is loading. Wait a few seconds or more to let the video download. Then, push what is now a play button.

If this doesn't work, please let me know.

Background

I've been uploading my videos to Blip.tv and then embedding the videos into my blog. At first, I uploaded an AVI file and let Blip.tv automatically created a Flash file. But I didn't like the quality of the Flash file that was generated.

So I've been experimenting with generating my own Flash files. I bought Flash Video MX to convert my videos to Flash format. This software program is very flexible and offers a number of settings for optimizing Flash videos. I've been using the medium-quality pre-set for Flash files, which is, the software program says, optimal for Internet streaming.

But I'm going to have to lower the bit rate so that less data is transmitted over the Internet at any given point. I'm also going to experiment with audio quality and other settings so that the resulting file is smaller.

My initial objective is to generate as high-quality a video file as possible, which usually means a larger file size, and this may cause difficulties for some Internet connections. So I'm going to re-encode these files so that nobody has any trouble viewing the video interviews I'm conducting.

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