Hi, I’m trying to determine if there’s differences, and what they are, between embedding a video movie in a FreewayPro website, versus linking to it from YouTube?
What’s the best, simplest way to put a movie clip in a website?
Is there any quality, speed, ease of use differences?
Thanks in advance - L
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Quality is highly subjective, and endlessly debatable.
YouTube offers you a series of trade-offs:
You don’t get as much control over the quality of the finished
product, because even if you sweat the details in Apple Compressor and
deliver them the perfect H264 clip with variable bit-rate and what-
have-you, they are going to compress it again, and we all know where
that leads.
But on the other hand, they take care of figuring out what type of
video will play on the widest range of devices, and automatically
switch between those versions for you. You don’t have to worry about
Flash or iPhones or pretty much anything.
But on the other hand, they will put ads up on your clip, or put
questionably-related clips up on the last frame, or any of a large
number of fishy things, because hey – it’s free, and they still have
to eat somehow…
In my opinion, if you want the highest quality, and the least
distraction from your commercial message, you will sweat the details
yourself, make sure you use the proper encoding and format, and
present the clip as QuickTime. If you want to off-load the (often
considerable) effort in exchange for lower quality and maybe overt
distraction from your commercial message, then you go with YouTube.
Walter
On May 31, 2011, at 6:07 PM, Lewis wrote:
Hi, I’m trying to determine if there’s differences, and what they
are, between embedding a video movie in a FreewayPro website, versus
linking to it from YouTube?
What’s the best, simplest way to put a movie clip in a website?
Is there any quality, speed, ease of use differences?
Thanks in advance - L
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There’s also Vimeo - not as popular as YT but a cleaner interface and better quality video
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