If you haven’t made the switch to high definition video on YouTube or other video hosting services, several factors have combined to make this a good time to do so.
Here’s a few of the factors that make it possible to now do hi-def video on the web.
- Mid-Range Video Cameras now shoot in HD and have storage methods to support the larger storage requirements.
- Editing tools like Adobe Premiere and Final Cut Pro support HD. Editors can even buy complete non-linear solutions that do HD very well with real timecompositing.
- Video Sharing websites are starting to support HD. YouTube, Vimeo and others. Check your service for compatibility.
- Flash Plugin V10 – version ten supports h.264. You can also click the pause button, go get eat dinner (if you’re on the Big Island you may need to do this overnight or use a special video downloader tool -watch out for versions with spyware) and come back to see if the video has cached. If it has cached and your connection hasn’t dropped, you can now watch it without interruption.
- Download speeds on the mainland have reached a point that most folks can and are willing to wait for a nice full-screen version of the video they’re trying to view.
- Monitors are now available in high definition formats which preserve the 16:9 aspect ratios. In the past 16:9 ratios were stretched into 4:3 aspect ratios or simply displayed at near full screen. The monitors also have access times that work well with online compression algorithms ie; they look good.
- Graphic cards on nearly all computers shipped in the last year support HD. Hard drives can also keep up, even on laptops and netbooks.
- Hard drives can now keep up.
- Your viewers are starting to expect HD more and more as their television experience becomes high definition.
Additional Resources to get your video specs into High Definition quality. The video is a good primer.
- Bigger and Better: Encoding for YouTube 720p HD
- Online video sites HD quality comparison
- How to make Youtube HD videos?
- Video : Tek Tip: HD Specs-tacular
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