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What is the "BEST" video format to be used on a website.

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Post June 20th, 2008, 5:57 pm

I have 3, four minute videos I want to put on a website. A fairly simple site with 5 pages, one page will need to have three of my videos. I have a guy that is building my site at the moment. He really wants to do everything in flash. I heard that flash may not be the best format for video. Can anyone shed some light on the subject. I can export my video in any format in final cut pro, and I just want the best quality possible. Please Help and let me know what my best option would be.
Also if anyone knows what compression settings would be best for my videos I would love that info too. Thanks in advance
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Post June 20th, 2008, 5:57 pm

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Post June 20th, 2008, 8:09 pm

well I have no experience with WMV but otherwise your options are basically quicktime (h.264) or Flash (On2 VP6). The Flash compression is actually quite good with very little loss of quality. The issue is that Flash is on most computers while if you pick quicktime its on all macs but few windows machines and windows media player is on all win boxes but very few macs. If you want the widest reach flash is probably your best bet.

I wouldn't try to export an flv out of FCP though since its going to use the older sorenson spark codec that isn't as good. There's some licensing issue with On2 that means you pretty much have to have flash pro to encode an flv that way. You might just want to create a quicktime and give it to your flash guy to make into flash video.
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Post June 21st, 2008, 6:13 am

Agreed with graphixboy for all the same reasons.
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Post July 18th, 2008, 4:03 am

thanks guys ive got it all sorted now...
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Post August 25th, 2008, 11:45 pm

i think the swf is the best format to be used on a website.
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Post August 27th, 2008, 1:58 am

FLV is the best. All of the popular multimedia websites are using flv format.
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Post August 27th, 2008, 6:08 am

grishamist wrote:
FLV is the best. All of the popular multimedia websites are using flv format.

Good format, like it.
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Post August 31st, 2008, 11:53 am

FLV! I Use it for a long time, you can check the QUALITY of some of my videos here for example
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Post September 12th, 2008, 12:09 am

I suggest Flash Video (flv/swf). It loads easy and has a good compression and a most of people have the Flash Player installed.
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Post September 21st, 2008, 7:33 am

one more vote for Flash Video (flv/swf). they are best for quality and are widely used.
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Post September 21st, 2008, 7:01 pm

I suggest MPG because you do not have to have any 3rd party plugins (Flash) or codecs (Quicktime/Real/DivX) to watch it. WMV videos can be a pain for non-Windows visitors or users without the latest version of Windows Media Player.
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Post October 7th, 2008, 7:09 pm

i also suggest flash video, both swf and flv are ok.
Youtube video is also in format of flv.
There are many video to flash converter, you can seach one in google.

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