Setting up a new paysite network and I'm hoping to get some input from people who've tried multiple settings for eX's video transcoder. What we need to do is simply add a watermark to 720x480 WMVs that are already uploaded.. Here's the problem:
Before uploading, I optimized all files in videocharge using batch process, kept source resolution but set the bitrate down to ~1300, videos look nice and each scene is about 170-200Mb.
Now, after watermarking in eX, same or +100 bitrate, end files are ~15-30megs larger which is fine, but video quality degraded A LOT (mostly in fast moving scenes).
I don't want to set the bitrate up to 2-3000 just to preserve the quality, as this is probably a codec issue or something similar (I hope).
There's a video codec field, currently set to wmv2, is there a better option?
Should I reduce fps rate to 24? (and will this cause the audio to go out of sync?)
Share your experiences please
any help greatly appreciated