HD, Video Quality, and vShare - What You Really Need To Know

**MauiRedMan** · 06-06-2009, 05:30 PM

What people are asking for when they ask for HD player is the HD format is widescreen and if you upload a HD video to vshare after it converts your edges are cut off they have several inches misssing from the video.
even in full screen. 720 I/P cuts off about 1 inch on each side.
1080 I/P cuts off more this is size relevent not quality.
That is a good post west but not what people want to know when they are talking HD what your talking about is HQ (ie High Quality )

**bplex** · 06-06-2009, 09:11 PM

I'm not sure who you are referring to (whether west or myself) as west didn't post this thread. I'm assuming you are talking to me.

With that regard, this post was in response to some posts made back in April regarding people wanting HD players and not understanding what HD is. This post addresses what HD is, and what HD isn't.

As I stated in my post, HD IS NOT HQ. HD is nothing more than a resolution. If all someone wants is a widescreen format, all they have to do is change their player size to match the resolution they want (i.e. make their player widescreen) and change their conversion settings so that it converts the video into a 16:9 as opposed to a 4:3. To further go along with that, simply changing your resolution doesn't achieve what most people call "HD." To get what most people call "HD," you have to not only change your resolution, but you have to change your video codec as well (to something that can produce HQ video at high resolutions (HD) without sacrificing portability, which is needed for any web-based video). This is why my post talks about H.264.

In addition to that, my post also addresses that H.264 IS NOT MP4, which was in one of the discussions back in April. I don't need to repeat myself on this, you can just read the post above.

Lastly, to address your "cutting off" issue, this happens because the conversion settings in vShare, by default, create 4:3 video and not 16:9 video. You will have to change your conversion settings to convert to 16:9. One thing to note, however, is that by changing your settings to convert to 16:9, you actually hurt 4:3 video. The proper way to handle both 16:9 and 4:3 is to do an auto detect in your conversion settings and instruct your flash player to not fill the screen (but rather, play the video in its native format).

To sum it all up, this post was not an instruction guide to how to create HQ or HD video or how to get vShare to create HQ or HD video. It was meant to explain to the masses what HD is, what HQ is, and what neither of them are.