Distribution: Getting The Word Out

• Compressed video for the web
  • Compress segments of your videotape into digital files that can be installed by you or your webmaster and placed on your website or MIT TechTV
• We recommend three file formats which cover the broadest spectrum of video formats available for personal computers (Flash, QuickTime, WindowsMedia)
• The highest quality format is QuickTime H.264.  This format will play on most computers these days with QuickTime 7 or higher.
• When a sufficient amount of a QuickTime file has downloaded, it will start playing automatically (progressive download).  With faster connections (DSL, Cable Modems), this should be within 10 seconds
• FlashVideo is a streaming format that can be optimized for smaller bandwidths (modems)

• Still images
  • Although video images are not nearly as crisp as film, re-sampling them in Photoshop will yield a small image that can be used in print.