Creating Video (3:2)

I took some test video with a digital camcorder of a building under construction. This test video was taken at a ratio of 3:2.

Input Video (with Audio)
Type: avi
Resolution: 720 x 480
Size: 492 MB
Running Time: 2:13 minutes
MB/min: 222 MB/min

Resultant Videos (Reference Settings)

	MOV	WMV
Resolution	320 x 240	720 x 480
Size	14.4 MB	26.8 MB
Running Time	2:00 min.	2:00 min.
Rendering Time	10 min.	31 min.

You can compare the videos below. The red and white sign at 1:19 into the video is a good point to perform the comparison.

MOV on Viddler

 

WMV on Viddler

 

 

WMV on YouTube

Conclusions

The higher resolution WMV yields noticeably better results than the low resolution MOV. The WMV looks better on Viddler than YouTube and that’s primarily due to two reasons:

1. The Viddler viewing window is bigger
2. Viddler gives the option of viewing the video in its original size (720 x 480)