Online Video Publishing

If you need to get the best video quality possible for clips that you need to publish online, here is a good short guide to the key settings, codecs, bitrates and compression levels you should use to prepare your video, (thanks to the Vimeo support team).

While these settings have been thought out to optimize video publishing on Vimeo, you can utilize these references to prepare and save video files you may want to publish through other video services as well.

Very useful. Clear, simple. 8/10

Full guide: http://vimeo.com/help/compression 

N.B.: The page contains also a very comprehensive list of mini-video tutorials covering optimization settings for most any video editing and production software.

The Amazon Elastic Transcoder (http://aws.amazon.com/elastictranscoder), is a new web-based service that makes it easy to convert video clips between different file formats without needing to buy and install any dedicated software.

The service is designed to be very easy to use and you pay for what you use. 20 minutes of free transcoding, are available to all users each month.

(See: http://aws.amazon.com/free)

Video file formats supported: 3GP, AAC, AVI, FLV, MP4 and MPEG-2 as input and H.264/AAC/MP4 as output file formats.

Prices start at just $0.015/minute for Standard Definition content, and $0.030/minute for High Definition content.

Pricing Examples

1. A 10 minute source file in US West (Oregon) transcoded to an SD output will cost 10 x $0.015 = $0.15.
2. A 10 minute source file in US East (N. Virginia) transcoded to an HD output will cost 10 x $0.030 = $0.30.
3. A 10 minute source file in EU (Ireland) transcoded to one SD and one HD output will cost (10 x $0.017) + (10 x $0.034) = $0.51.

FAQ: http://aws.amazon.com/elastictranscoder/faqs/

Pricing info: http://aws.amazon.com/elastictranscoder/pricing/

Find out more: http://aws.amazon.com/elastictranscoder/

Encode.it is a professional web-based service designed for professional video applications and it is specifically tailored to those in need to convert and encode large quantities of video files into any format, or screen size resolution and with the minimum effort.

Encode.it supports a staggering range of video file formats and codecs covering everything you may actually need.

"EncodeIt.net can encode video to/from any format, codec or device: iPhone, iPad, Android, HTML5, Ogg Theora, WebM, MP4, H.264, Flash Video, Apple ProRes and DIVX."

A free version of the service allows you to upload and convert up to 1GB of video content, into any format you need, though it will leave a watermark on the converted file.

Additional optional services include: watermarking, 2-pass encoding, H264 full parameters, thumbnails, automated rotation, CDN delivery and more.

Pricing: Starts at $2/GB (for up to 100GB month) and goes down with larger monthly volumes.

http://encodeit.net/price

Find out more: http://encodeit.net/

File formats / Codecs supported: http://encodeit.net/format

Similar services: http://www.heywatchencoding.com/