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