Squish: Shooting for Streaming

In order to get your video creations to fit within the bandwidth limitations of Net-delivered streaming video (and storage/playback media such as VCDs), your video is going to be subject to the reality of compression.

While the "data pipes" available to the general public are getting bigger, in order to use them for something as data intensive as streaming video, you'll want to condense your video data stream as much as you possibly can.

The Holy Grail
The overall goal of video compression is to reduce the bandwidth requirements of your data stream so that it can travel quickly and efficiently through the copper and silicone that make up today's computerized video…

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