• After witnessing the continued decrease of involvement in the SpotterNetwork staff in serving SN members with troubleshooting issues recently, I have unilaterally decided to terminate the relationship between SpotterNetwork's support and Stormtrack. I have witnessed multiple users unable to receive support weeks after initiating help threads on the forum. I find this lack of response from SpotterNetwork officials disappointing and a failure to hold up their end of the agreement that was made years ago, before I took over management of this site. In my opinion, having Stormtrack users sit and wait for so long to receive help on SpotterNetwork issues on the Stormtrack forums reflects poorly not only on SpotterNetwork, but on Stormtrack and (by association) me as well. Since the issue has not been satisfactorily addressed, I no longer wish for the Stormtrack forum to be associated with SpotterNetwork.

    I apologize to those who continue to have issues with the service and continue to see their issues left unaddressed. Please understand that the connection between ST and SN was put in place long before I had any say over it. But now that I am the "captain of this ship," it is within my right (nay, duty) to make adjustments as I see necessary. Ending this relationship is such an adjustment.

    For those who continue to need help, I recommend navigating a web browswer to SpotterNetwork's About page, and seeking the individuals listed on that page for all further inquiries about SpotterNetwork.

    From this moment forward, the SpotterNetwork sub-forum has been hidden/deleted and there will be no assurance that any SpotterNetwork issues brought up in any of Stormtrack's other sub-forums will be addressed. Do not rely on Stormtrack for help with SpotterNetwork issues.

    Sincerely, Jeff D.

HD Video Encoders to reduce your video file sizes

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Drew.Gardonia

I found an encoder that retains the FULL QUALITY while converting to a smaller file size to make uploading of video's more feasible and timely.

For PC's
http://www.h264encoder.com/

For MAC's
http://www.elgato.com/elgato/na/mainmenu/products/Turbo264HD/product1.en.html


either one works great, most of my bigger movie's 1-2GB were reduced to 100-200 MB in file size and I retained original HD 1080p quality, full audio, and aspect ratio. you simply can't tell the difference by looking at them, even if you open both files in a separate player window and put them side by side and played them, you can't see the difference. Both encoders convert .mov to .mp4 format

I use the h264 encoder on my laptop, and I use the Elgate Turbo h264 on my iMAC at home. both work superbly!
 
I found an encoder that retains the FULL QUALITY

Just to clarify, although you keep the the resolution and framerate of the original video, H.264 is not lossless compression so there is some quality degradation when you convert the video. Of course it is a very efficient format and can convert videos from other formats to lower file sizes without a noticeable difference in quality, assuming you pick the right bitrate.

Its also an extremely popular format, and you may already be using it without realizing it. As far as I know, all HD hard drive camcorders are encoding to this format, including your Sony AVCHD camcorders. A good number of your Blu-ray discs are also in this format. If you do your video editing in one of the Adobe Premiere or Sony Vegas varieties, you are also ready to encode to the H.264 format without using a separate encoder like the ones mentioned above. Both have presets and options for these formats. In Premiere look for H.264 and in Vegas see the AVCHD profiles.
 

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