New Video feature
Thanks so much for opening up video formats! I was all ready to start converting them to another format for uploading them through youtube, but this makes more sense as my video is also usually tied to an album.
I do have a question, though. For a while I could not find a way to change the display mode between dvd and web as mentioned in your new help page. I finally saw it up at the top, but that was because I was really looking for it. I don't think a visitor would notice that if they weren't specifically looking for it, and even then... I'm wondering if this mode switch can be more obvious - perhaps having an additional icon on the mouseover under Save Movie, or something? I don't know, but it seems like it should be a lot more obvious.
Also, the choices are between web and "iPod/DVD" and Auto, but on the help page you only mention web and DVD. I'm wondering about the mention of iPod. It seems a bit confusing. Why not just high/low? Also, what is Auto about?
Finally, I have Quicktime Pro and would like to convert stuff first rather than upload 100MB+ files. I'm wondering if you could provide a quick set of settings to use for this. I've been converting images from my compact digicams to ipod format (m4v), and although it doesn't give you a choice of what mpeg-4 compression part to use when converting, if I load the converted file it into Quicktime and use the movie inspector option, it says it's H.264, so I suppose I should use this option?
Thanks again!
I do have a question, though. For a while I could not find a way to change the display mode between dvd and web as mentioned in your new help page. I finally saw it up at the top, but that was because I was really looking for it. I don't think a visitor would notice that if they weren't specifically looking for it, and even then... I'm wondering if this mode switch can be more obvious - perhaps having an additional icon on the mouseover under Save Movie, or something? I don't know, but it seems like it should be a lot more obvious.
Also, the choices are between web and "iPod/DVD" and Auto, but on the help page you only mention web and DVD. I'm wondering about the mention of iPod. It seems a bit confusing. Why not just high/low? Also, what is Auto about?
Finally, I have Quicktime Pro and would like to convert stuff first rather than upload 100MB+ files. I'm wondering if you could provide a quick set of settings to use for this. I've been converting images from my compact digicams to ipod format (m4v), and although it doesn't give you a choice of what mpeg-4 compression part to use when converting, if I load the converted file it into Quicktime and use the movie inspector option, it says it's H.264, so I suppose I should use this option?
Thanks again!
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With high or low you wouldn't have many associations and after all, our videos are all high quality and just differ in the resolution. For DVD/iPod, Web or HD, people all ready have certain sizes in mind.
Yes, H.264 is the format we convert your videos into. Just use this and you'll be fine.
I hope this helps,
Sebastian
SmugMug Support Hero