:: Overview ::

:: Low Motion High Fidelity ::

:: Low Motion Low Fidelity ::

:: High Motion High Fidelity ::

:: High Motion Low Fidelity ::

I started this project by trying to find some video so I dug out my camera, hooked it up to a tripod, got distracted, and forgot about it. A few hours later, my roommate came back and asked why there was a camera on a tripod setup and pointing at his bed which was just a coincidence. So I moved it and now it was pointing at his desk and he started beat-boxing, so I turned the camera on recorded it and I had my low motion video. The second clip came from some old footage I shot of my roommate and I flying this little rechargeable foam plane around on campus.

I imported the videos to my computer using the program that came with my video card called Intervideo Winproducer. I used the s-video out on my camera and the s-video in on my video card to do this.

Next came the audio i grabbed this off a couple of CDs I own using cdex. I got my high fidelity audio from the Godzilla soundtrack, a clip from David Arnold - Opening Titles. The low fidelity came from the Offspring’s' CD Smash and was the intro called "time to relax".

The next step was to edit the files to a decent length and put them together. I used Intervideo Winproducer to first edit them and then stick them all together. This output them as uncompressed .avi files.

My first problem was that when the video was imported it used the color format of UYVY instead of RGB, which I discovered after bringing a burned DVDs of these clip to the entertainment lab QuickTime and cleaner don't get along with. So I went back home , converted them to RGB and went back to the ET lab.

When I started encoding the files, I tried to use the default ISDN configuration for all of the file types Windows, Real, and QuickTime. However cleaner informed me that real is only supported in OS 9 so that didn’t work out. I did Windows first and used an mpeg4 encoding and just the default options which you can see in the screenshot below. Then I tried QuickTime with the default options and compared the two. Windows did a pretty good job of encoding the low motion video however the high motion looked pretty bad. One thing to point out is that the .wmv files had a slightly higher resolution so that is one of the reasons why they did not look as good.

I decided to use QuickTime as the primary wrapper for compressing my files and tweaked the settings out for each one. The page for each of the videos describes what codecs I chose and why I chose them.


Created by Ryan Taylor