Club God – Compression Woes

This whole compressing a high-def short and crunching it down to some web-capable viewing is painful. It’s like taking a painting by Monet and the only way you could share it with the world is to show it on an etch-a-sketch.

But, it is what it is.

What has surprised me, however, is the problem with audio syncing during this process. Both God Tube and Vimeo have audio drag in various sections. Facebook is the closest so far at keeping things accurate, but even it drifts a bit.

Frustrating. But a good learning experience.

Club God – Screening Website

Okay, I got Club God up at God Tube and Facebook and Vimeo.

However, to make things simple, I’ve created a webpage called ClubGodMovie.com. If you go there I will embed the best quality version I can get. I’ll keep playing around with compression and uploading. Right now the winner is Vimeo. I’m not overly happy with it, but I may be able to upload a better quality in the near future.

In any event, we all know how these things work. We need to SPREAD THE WORD.

So, if you like the movie, please go to God Tube and Facebook and Vimeo and rate the film highly so we can get more hits, more interest and more viewers.

Pope John Paul II called us to take the media back for Jesus Christ. You can do your small part by getting more people to watch this film. It’s only a mouse click, an email message and/or a rating away.

And, as always, keep us in your prayers! We need ‘em!

Club God – You Tube Irks Me

When I tried to upload Club God to You Tube I got the following message:

“You can no longer upload videos longer than ten minutes regardless of what type of account you have.”

This means I have to break Club God into two parts and upload it. Ugh! What a pain.

I was able to upload to God Tube, but the quality is not very good. I was also able to upload to Facebook and the quality is better, but the compression still looks bad. I’m working on finding a higher quality website to upload the file to…

I’ll put all of the links to all of the places to see it in the next entry.

Club God – Let the Encoding Begin

After further research I’ve found that You Tube has a “Director” program where you can load files greater than 10 minutes.  So, I won’t have to split the short into two parts and this allows me to use the same file to upload to both Facebook and You Tube.

In order to get it uploaded to God Tube, which has extremely small size limitations, I had to convert to a flash file (FLV), so the quality of that encoding may be the worst.  That’s disappointing because that was my first choice.

The point is to get the project out so that’s what we’re doing.  I’ll have all of them uploaded today.  Hopefully they’ll be available later on in the afternoon.

I’ll let you know…