Video Post

Dubai Flow Motion from Rob Whitworth on Vimeo.

No, this is not the work of Dana Jae.  It’s here as a marker for a future video I’ll be posting. These interesting bits about Vimeo are noteworthy:

On 9 October 2007, Vimeo announced support for high definition playback in 1280×720 (720p), becoming the first video sharing site to support consumer HD.[19] Uploaded HD videos were automatically converted into 720/30p VP6 Flash video. Since August 2010, all videos are encoded into H.264 for HTML5 support. All videos uploaded before were re-encoded. Non-Plus users can upload up to 500 MB of videos per week, and up to one HD video per week (additional HD videos uploaded within the same week are encoded to SD).

Non-HD videos re-encode at a maximum of 30 frame/s but suffer in general video image quality, which is inline with the low bitrate for videos in the 640×360 size. Usually the video content is re-encoded to bitrate below 0.5 Mbit/s. This is not high enough data rate to reproduce the fine details that can be captured from, e.g., a consumer video camera or iPhone.

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