Compression Decompression: H.264 and Web HD :(
Dear Content Delivery Network:
Please consider this an honest and open plea for sanity and engineering wisdom on behalf of those receiving my precious content and squishing the life out of the imagery. When I shoot it, its pretty, when I edit - even more so, and when I go through the trouble to color grade it, exponentially more beauteous magic is discovered, pixel by glorious pixel.
But.. and its a big but… when I upload my 5 minute HD “Thing Of Beauty” (HDTOB) and the source file is larger than the wee skinny space allocated for such grandiose accomplishments as my treatise on shaving wild cats for neighborhood edification (in beautiful 720p HD) or the really nifty one about establishing dominance in a cage full of fecal flinging simians (I do love animals), and I see all the love and care I have put into such fantabulous productions intended to enrich the lives of bored netizens the world over crushed by a ruthless bit crunching process that can only be described as barbaric - I flop, aghast and dismayed upon the floor. How could you? This HDTOB deserves a proper presentation.
So, in light of that, please do the following:
A. Post somewhere on your site (in an easy to find place in plain English/ Esperanto/ Latin/ Mandarin/ Hutu/ Attic Greek/ Latvian/ Klingon) the instructions for uploading content as H.264 (including the necessary compression caps, the frame sizes, frame rate and any other relevant information) so I can bypass your encoder (saving you time and saving my imagery from you) and give me a reasonable file size cap (250mb? Okay - but only if I control my compression for final presentation) OR
B. Figure out how to take large files ~5GB in DVCProHD or HDV and transcode them yourself with your gadgetry.
Bottom line
My HDTOB deserves better than 3 to 5 rounds of compression before final presentation to the audience of the world. The one that steps up to this plate and makes it a reality will be the one that leads the pack of all of you scrambling for the rights to be number one in the new wild west of streaming media. Get on it!
Mr Film maker.
Drew is a Producer/ Cinematographer/ Special Effects Geek at ScribeMedia. He has been making stuff for people to watch for over 10 years.
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