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In September of 2025, my work is generating the most income it ever has in my career. Yet, I'm being forced to shut down my successul operation, against my will, due to one cause alone: 95% of that revenue is being stolen by piracy and copyright infringement. I've lost more than $1 million to copyright infringement in the last 15 years, and it's finally brought an end to my professional storm chasing operation. Do not be misled by the lies of infringers, anti-copyright activists and organized piracy cartels. This page is a detailed, evidenced account of my battle I had to undertake to just barely stay in business, and eventually could not overcome. It's a problem faced by all of my colleagues and most other creators in the field. |
Thanks to my bandwidth-safe media server account, I re-encoded and reposted a couple of high-definition videos. I played around with the bitrates in CS3's encoder, and settled on around 9Mbps. That's pretty high, which will result in clips buffering for a while even on broadband connections. But it's HD, so that's to be expected. CS3 will go up to 10Mbps, but I didn't see much of a difference between 9 and 10. 6 megs actually didn't look all that bad, but I figured since I'm not bandwidth-pinching I could spring for an extra 3.
I'm not 100% impressed with the Flash-based encoding (it still looks a little soft even at the full 10Mbps), but I like it better than Windows Media. Windows Media encoder will go up to 20Mbps at 1080i res - which looks great, but is too big for practical web use. I'm using a 944x528 frame size that will fit inside this site's 1024-optimized layout. Any larger than that and the Flash encoder starts getting noticably softer.
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