Finishing up my doc series and we are posting to the client through their new Vimeo account. I don't usually pay attention to this stuff as it's handled by the various assistant editors etc... The regular H_264 HD screeners were okay for approval but I made some full size UHD H_264s out of Avid using multi pass encode which is a time suck and I'm sure there are many products that would do a faster and probably better job but this worked for my limited attention span. The files ended up about 10 gig which takes about 90 minutes to upload to Vimeo. My full tilt ProResHQ master files are 200 gig so that's time prohibitive to upload to Vimeo and we will deliver those on a hard drive.
My producer uploaded my 10 gig H_264 and thought it looked compressed. I took a look on my old iMac in Firefox and it looked good to me but I did notice that it would get soft on the subtitles but then I noticed that it suddenly popped up in apparent resolution while I was playing. I figure that Vimeo like many streamers has some sort of auto resolution element so it keeps playing in real time but may go soft.
I told my producer I was watching on Firefox and it looked good. He then tried Firefox and on his Mac it too looked good. He had been watching in Chromeand he said it looked much worse in Chrome. I realize there are all kinds of variables but I'm curious if those more astute streamers are aware of potential issues with Vimeo on various browsers, computers mac vs. pc etc... I know years back we found that often a file would look vastly different in a web browser on Vimeo than if we downloaded it through Vimeo and then played it.
Can we just go back to delivering on HDCam SR? Just curious what others do in this seemingly hopeless tapestry of image ambiguity on different platforms. This is making me think Fonts aren't so bad but I'm sure this feeling is only temporary. ;-)
John Moore Barking Trout Productions Studio City, CA bigfish@pacbell.net
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