Video encoding confusion: Tekzilla clears it up

I was watching an episode of Tekzilla the other day. The show comes from Revision 3, and is hosted by car-dude Patrick Norton and geek-gal Veronica Belmont. Kevin Rose filled in for Patrick this day, as they answered viewer questions — one being about proper video encoding for online. They use an app called Episode Pro. I assume these directions and screenshots are from that app … but you’re likely to have some of these same fields whether you use Sorenson, Vegas, Quicktime .. you name it.

You can watch the video below… but here’s the just of it:

Bandwidth settings:

• Peak Rate: 1500 kbit/s
• Average rate:  1200 kbit/s
• Frame skip probability: 0
• VBV buffer size: 5
• VBR strength: 50 (but grayed out)
• Profile settings: Vp6-E

Encoding settings:

• High Quailty
• 2-pass Encoding: yes (checked)
• 2-pass Mode: CBR
• Sharpness: 5

Frame Rate:

• Frame Rate: 29.97
• Type: fast
• Fraction: 1/2
• Framerate Type: Upper limit
• First Interlaced Pair: Frame 2 and 3

Deinterlace:

• Field Order: Automatic detection
• Creating New Fields by: Edge detecting interpolation
• Deinterlace Type: deinterlace interlaced frames (automatic)
• Threshold: 6
• Deinterlace Chroma: 1
• Double Frame Rate: 0

Resize:

• Width: 640
• Height: 360
• Top: 0
• Bottom: 0
• Left: 0
• Right: 0
• Display Ration Compensation: Assume 16:9
• Aspect Mode: Letterbox (pad)
• Interlace Handling: Progressive output
• Interpolation mode: Automatic

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