On 08/28/2013 09:12 PM, Nkansah Rexford wrote:
I'm wondering who will dedicate 10+Gig of his data plan to watch an hour video of Wikimania in HDV.
No one, since Commons downscales it automatically (no matter what size you upload in).
If the end user needs a SD quality of video, why use HDV to record? I'm sure HDV isn't used because its the latest technology or something of that sort.
It's standard procedure to record in higher quality than viewers will watch in. Among other things, it provides editing flexibility, and allows archiving the high quality content (whether at Archive.org, Commons (depending on size), or somewhere else. Then later, if file size limits change, or people want higher quality (e.g. for a BluRay or something), you can remaster from a high quality recording.
Matt Flaschen