New Video Framerates

We've increased the quality substantially.

Now, we've been slowly rolling out the desktop upload app to more and more people, so there's a few producers out there who can get much larger input files into the system.

Within a week or so we should have this app out most of the rest of you. Now, when you put a really big file into the system, it will encode to a pretty freaking high quality.

i doubt that it adds frames, but it is probably just capable of supporting higher frame rates. a lot of kids don't change the frame rate to 24 when they export (assuming they shot/edited at 60), so their final video comes out at 60. now the old player probably only supported 24 or 30, but maybe now it can actually play back the 60fps videos at 60fps.

I'm not sure exactly what the settings are but this very well could be true. The idea with web videos is to make a balance between quality and filesize. If you set things too high then it can take way too long to stream.

I have one question about the new media player. It has a button that can turn on HD. But what is HD? Like I mean for youtube you can pick between 360p,720p, etc.. Does that button just put it to the highest it can go? EX if a video can play 720p and I click HD does it make it 720p? Or if the video can play 1080p does it make it 1080p? My buddy thinks the video player doesn't play more then 720p after clicking the HD button therefore there is no point in shooting 1080p. Just looking for some clarification.

idk if you can tell but I have no idea what im talking about haha

On youtube, 720p and 1080p are the HD options. However, I doubt the NS player supports more than 720p. If it does, awesome, but no surprise if it doesn't. It was only recently that Youtube and Vimeo integrated 1080p, and most of us don't even have monitors that can support 1080p (I'm on a 15" macbook and can't see true 1080p). So chances are, even if you upload in 1080p, the NS player will only play at 720p.


However, your buddy is definitely wrong. Assuming you have the same frame rate options at 1080 (which most cameras don't), there's no reason not to shoot 1080 unless you're trying to save space.

Think of it this way: If you shoot at 720p, then downres it to 480 (standard definition), it's still going to look better than video shot at 480p since you have captured more detail. Same goes for shooting in 1080. Plus, when 1080 becomes more standard, all your stuff will already be in 1080!

sweet thanks!