In few days we will start a new „news“ section called Hardware in which we would like to bring the latest news from the world of Hardware which is essential part of a workflow in any 3D modeling or animation project. The new section would feature news from the major players in this like Intel, Nvidia, AMD, Dell and others which bring the tools needed for smooth running and using any CAD or 3D application.
During the last tutorial we decided to improve the quality of our recordings by encoding the video a different way. So far all tutorial are encoded using Xvid and Lame mp3 for audio keeping the recording resolution. After some tests we decided to resize a bit the video down to 70% and rising the encode quality of Xvid by keeping the bitrate of the video around 550 kbps.
Like this we were able to release the new HTC tutorial in better quality and also smaller size and we hope that you will like this. Using this new scheme of encoding we will update all tutorials new and also already uploaded here at 3D-Sphere. Unfortunately because less time this process will take probably months. However, soon or later all videos would be in the new format.
New specification for video and audio:
· Codec: Xvid 1.3.2
· Resolution: 1176x704
· Bit rate: around 550kbps
· Frame rate: 15
· Audio Codec: Lame mp3
· Bit rate: 64 kbps
· Channels: 1 (mono)
· Audio rate: 44 kHz
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