| In order to encode video for the web you will need to | | | | this your hosting bandwidth, if you are using a virtual |
| decide whether you want to upload your content to | | | | host you are very likely to be regulated by fair use |
| video sharing sites or if you want to upload it to your | | | | policies, in other words if your site starts to consume |
| own website, there is a big difference between the | | | | too many resources of the host you might be asked |
| two as you will soon find out. Video sharing for the | | | | to regulate your traffic order to decrease the load |
| web involves a lot of work unless you only want to | | | | your site represents to the server, if you are not able |
| upload them to sites such as Youtube, and others | | | | to regulated it may be taken down, this scenario will |
| which made this one, let's start by explaining how to | | | | only happen if you had a high traffic website, in other |
| transcode video for social sharing sites. | | | | words if you have thousands upon thousands of |
| Let's assume that you have already captured a video | | | | visitors you might want to consider another solution. |
| which you want to upload to Youtube, you will first | | | | If you transcode video for the web using optimized |
| need to transcode it into a compatible format that the | | | | codecs you will be able to stream at this content at a |
| site will be able to handle and convert them to FLV, | | | | higher-resolution compared to other video sharing sites |
| such formats are MPEG, AVI, MOV and WMV, in | | | | such as Youtube, the format of choice for webpages |
| order to achieve the best quality is recommended for | | | | vary from WMV to FLV, WMV provides a higher |
| you to upload the videos using a resolution of 640x480 | | | | compression ratio if you compared to a container such |
| however you may also upload them even if they use | | | | as MPEG and the resolution will be much better as |
| a resolution of the 320 x 240 which is the actual | | | | well, the only downside is that your visitors will be able |
| resolution you see on the site, the video bitrate to be | | | | to download your content, if you are selling |
| used should vary from 700 kbps all the way to 1500 | | | | memberships this might not be a very good solution |
| kbps, obviously the lower the bit rate that is quality or | | | | which is why business people decide to use formats |
| video will have but is not recommended to exceed | | | | such as FLV which are not as easy to copy or |
| 1500 kbps because you will not be able to see much | | | | download without using special tools, for the most part |
| of a difference anyways. | | | | web visitors will use the right-click feature in their |
| If you decide to increase the video bitrate you will | | | | browsers in order to save the video you have |
| have to spend a lot more time of loading the video to | | | | uploaded, using flash technology or FLV they will be |
| the web because the file size has been increased with | | | | unable to save your streaming videos to their hard |
| this adjustment. | | | | drive used in the right-click feature. |
| If you decide to upload your video to your own blog or | | | | Transcoding video for the web is all about compatible |
| website you will be able to publish your content without | | | | formats, bandwidth and quality, these are all of the |
| any restraints however, there are some factors that | | | | most important factors that you want to take into |
| you should take into consideration when uploading | | | | consideration if you want to stream your media. |
| video to the web. The first thing you should consider | | | | |