far Posted July 13, 2005 Share Posted July 13, 2005 1) Ok, we want to host the fashion show from one of our exhibitions on our website, I was wondering if their is any software available to allow us to put some kind of watermark across the 'movie' to avoid people copying it and using it for commercial purposes. Can this be done? 2) Also the fashion show and exhibition highlights are about 80minutes long - if I put this on good quality how long would it take for say, someone with a 1meg connection to download it? Is it feasable for me to put this on? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maxx Posted July 13, 2005 Share Posted July 13, 2005 Yes you could watermark the movie, you'd need some software to do it, I us Adobe After Effects but I'm sure you can probably do it with other less expensive software. As for the size I would look to halve it if you can (mpeg4 maybe) even with a 1Mb line it would take a while to download an 80MB file but if it's worth it people will wait. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted July 13, 2005 Share Posted July 13, 2005 1) Any video editing software should let you do this. 2) Define good quality. There's many factors to consider. Do you want to stream it? Or download the whole lot? Who is your target audience - Mac users? You can choose RealMedia, QuickTime, MPG2, MPG4 (DivX type), Windows Streaming etc. etc. Your choices will mean different users may need to download plugins, do you want this? Hard to tell the download speed until you've chosen a format, compressed the video as this and then got a file size. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SimonB Posted July 13, 2005 Share Posted July 13, 2005 You can watermark video, even so the watermark persists if you re-encode it. I don't know where you would get software to do it though. It wouldn't stop people copying it, just mean you could prove they had copied it if you had to. 80 minutes at a decent quality is going to be at least 500Mb I would think if you encode it as a .wmv or DivX or something. On a 1 meg link that would take an hour to download at maximum speed (i.e. if everything inbetween you and them had enough bandwidth etc). In practise more like 1.5-2 hours probably. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustGav Posted July 13, 2005 Share Posted July 13, 2005 If the original source is in AVI, then something like VirtualDUB will do the watermark, and the nice thing about VDUB..it's price.... FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE You can then simply encode the AVI into your mpeg2 format and you are away... something like TMPGENC usually does the job nicely...or CUCUSOFT's AVI2DVD stuff as well.. Gav Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustGav Posted July 13, 2005 Share Posted July 13, 2005 If you are looking at making it accesible on the net, then I wouldn't put the movie up as a file, but far rather look at a media server which will stream out the relevant parts... Easier on the bandwidth and kinding to the viewer, after all I'm going to be a little pissed, if I've just waited 2 hours for something and it wasn't as good as I expected.. The newer media servers also allow you to forward back and forth in the stream. Gav Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
far Posted July 13, 2005 Author Share Posted July 13, 2005 thanks guys, this is very helpful so we are suggesting it would be better to stream the video instead of having it as a file to download, hmmmm or maybe I can break the video down into elements of footage which would be easier on the time it takes to download the video. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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