Compression Codec Comparison

Alot of videobloggers seem to be aiming for QuickTime files in the 20 - 30Kb/sec. range and have questions about how to achieve this. I've found that if you download and intall the 3ivx codec for QuickTime and follow these steps you can quickly get pretty good results. I put together a QuickTime movie to demonstrate the difference between codecs. At this small of a bit rate the differences are subtle but especially noticable during transitions and quickly moving video. The three examples in this movie are of almost identical file size. Also, I've used the MPEG 4- Audio codec as it doesn't create the "tin can" sound of QDesign Music 2 codec.

Click here to watch the demo movie.

Click here for a .pdf explaining how to use 3ivx in QuickTime Pro.

Download 3ivx here.

More info about 3ivx here