My Show-reel; Digital vs Physical

The differences between the digital and physical copy of my show-reel.

My show-reel was exported as a Quicktime Movie (.mov), with the projects current video settings. The video setting were; aspect ratio: 1440 x 1080 at 25 FPS. The field dominance was set as upper (odd). The audio was set to a rate of 48 KHz at 16 bits. I compressed the mov to a H.264 using, a free video converter, MPEG Steamclip so I could uploaded it on YouTube. Since YouTube uses a Adobe Flash Player plug-in for playback, files like H.264/ MPEG are used to

By uploading your show-reel to a digital streaming site like YouTube, or Vimeo you instantly widen the range of audience that can access your content. Also sites like You Tube and Vimeo can also support HD formats like 1080p/i, 720p/i. The down side to uploading your content onto streaming sites it hard to protect copyright, since their are lots of programs that can download content from these sites it's hard to project your content.

DVDs are more personal format then streaming sites, since you can only give out your DVD to limited number of people. DVD are compressed into VOB, which stands for Video Object, and compress the video, audio, subtitles, and the menus into one file. DVDs can only output 360p without the use of High definition cables such as HDMI. DVDs also encrypt the DVD against directly coping the contents on the disc, although the encryption doesn't stop people from using programs to decrypt the encryption.