Bencredible

HOURS of work just went down the drain. Mostly Cariann’s work but HOURS nonetheless.

I decided that Spacevidcast.com would be the defacto source for space videos. Cool, eh? To this end I had Cariann go through our archives of NASA TV footage (we record NASA TV 24×7) and look for any clips that relate to STS-119 and export them. We then have a watch folder that picks up the video, adds the Spacevidcast bug, sizes the video to 640×480, crops out the badness and does a motion deinterlace to make it look pretty. The end result is an MPEG-4 encapsulated h.264 file with AAC low complexity 44.1kHz audio at 2000Kbps for video and 128Kbps stereo audio. The raw videos look *stunning* and I was excited that my master plan was all coming together.

Then I uploaded the videos to YouTube.

For some reason every clip has an A/V sync issue. I don’t know why. I have other clips on YouTube that compressed just fine, but the several HOURS of video that we just uploaded are, well, wrong. Take a peek:

This is just one of many, many long and boring videos (hey, I didn’t say all the videos would be exciting) that we uploaded. Now I’m going back and running a couple of tests, one is the raw MPEG-2 file to see what YouTube can do with that and the other is a version that has a tweaked AAC profile with the ‘Keep CODEC delay’ turned off. Anyone know the best settings in Episode Pro to encode for the highest possible quality YouTube videos?

GAAAAAAAAAAH!

Many comment that we tweet about going out for pancakes a lot. Actually, we do this about once a week and use the time to chat about cool things. Of course we’re really there for…

I decided to start doing a 60 second weekly update with Cariann. Thus far I have done one, and chances are pretty high that I’ll forget to do another. Here is the first update. Ok, ok, I may have sprung this on her with no notice but it is fun nonetheless.