Re: Smallest file size but with good quality for web download?

On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 22:15:31 +0200, Martin Heffels <apde1@xxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 19:37:00 GMT, eb7g <eb7g@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>I have a 7 minute video shot in miniDV
>[...]
>>The problem is, I want to get it down to under 5 mb yet still have it
>>look really good and the subtitles readable. I've tried several ways,
>>but can't seem to do it.
>
>That's impossible to compress it _and_ read the subs.
>I don't know if this will work properly, but if you're thinking
>Windows, you could create a subtitle-file (SRT-file), and make that
>downloadeable as well. But you have to test what will happen to the
>subs when playing back such a small video in the Windows Media Player.
>Maybe this will work for Quickime as well. Re-render your video
>without the subs, because it'll look better then as well.

..srt requires a plugin for windows media, and I'm not sure either
quicktime or real player support .srt at all.

The best plan is to grab a subtitle tool and create the text files in
the native player format - all media players support text subtitles
and there's no problem of being unreadable because they're played in a
separate screen area.

Try www.captionkit.com if you need a demo of how this works. Another
tool is Magpie from NCAM which does a similar job. 7 minutes of
dialogue would take about 20-30 minutes to subtitle correctly (so it's
time intensive)

Cheers - Neil
.

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