Why lower Resolution?

[Thiras]

Originally Posted by Z.x

Also not recommended to record higher than 1024x768 if you plan to publish your videos here... I tried 1152x864 for my latest vid because I wanted to present it at high quality, but WCM didn't approve it because of the bitrate being too high, since this kind of resolution needs high bitrate to look decent (otherwise there's too much pixelization/artifacts/etc). Really upsetting when all your work of frapsing and editing for months gets refused and ignored, but then there's many other ways to publish/semi-publish a video than WCM.

http://www.warcraftmovies.com/movieview.php?id=33298

^ has 2400 kbit/s, 1152x864 resolution and still looks pretty damn good. 3400 (audio + video) is what the site normally allows.

[Z.x]

Originally Posted by Thiras

http://www.warcraftmovies.com/movieview.php?id=33298

^ has 2400 kbit/s, 1152x864 resolution and still looks pretty damn good. 3400 (audio + video) is what the site normally allows.

I had that downloaded before but deleted it at some point along with lots of other things, when I needed more space for frapsing (I'm on old 2x 60GB hard drives). From what I remember, it didn't look nearly as good as the quality I used, but downloading it now to see again and look up details on the framerate, bitrate and format used.

But what upset me the most is that there's other published videos with a similar bitrate, which I used as reference on what kind of quality would be allowed so that's what I recorded, edited and rendered my video at. Examples:

http://www.warcraftmovies.com/movieview.php?id=31934
http://www.warcraftmovies.com/movieview.php?id=33474

Why were those accepted and mine refused?

I sent a long PM with an explanation to the website owner, one week later I got a reply saying that they're downloading it and will let me know asap if they will accept it... after that I got no reply. All this leads me to believe that it's not worth all this trouble and aggravation to try to post my vids on here. I don't understand why anyone would want to see lower quality, esp. from a 500MB vid which I think is pretty acceptable nowadays; and one of my main intents was to make a higher quality presentation than usual.

And I basically know the answer to my above question, just won't post it here to spare the drama, but will say that I don't like the way this place is run. My final decision was to publish my future full videos elsewhere, while possibly posting a small low quality preview on here. This is about as far as I'm gonna go on the details of my issue/problems with WCM, send me a PM if interested in further discussing it.

[Thiras]

Originally Posted by Z.x

http://www.warcraftmovies.com/movieview.php?id=31934
http://www.warcraftmovies.com/movieview.php?id=33474

Why were those accepted and mine refused?

I sent a long PM with an explanation to the website owner, one week later I got a reply saying that they're downloading it and will let me know asap if they will accept it... after that I got no reply. All this leads me to believe that it's not worth all this trouble and aggravation to try to post my vids on here. I don't understand why anyone would want to see lower quality, esp. from a 500MB vid which I think is pretty acceptable nowadays; and one of my main intents was to make a higher quality presentation than usual.

And I basically know the answer to my above question, just won't post it here to spare the drama, but will say that I don't like the way this place is run. My final decision was to publish my future full videos elsewhere, while possibly posting a small low quality preview on here. This is about as far as I'm gonna go on the details of my issue/problems with WCM, send me a PM if interested in further discussing it.

Those 2 would've been rejected if the call had been mine. Yeah they're above the limit. I don't run this site however and I cannot really do much about it I'm afraid.