Many current assignments are Internet related. Whether creating new footage for an existing website, re-cutting old footage for a new website or developing a website for film and video content, the requirements remain the same: start with high quality footage, edit with a small screen in mind and then encode for Internet streaming.
Even though some details cannot be seen in small Internet windows, it is still best to have clean footage from the start. When content looks foggy, fuzzy or watery due to low quality original footage, editing errors or poor encoding, some people will watch only a few seconds. Others will not watch at all.
When we started this short, Flying Legs Crew, we knew there would be three camera crews shooting mini-DV footage under a variety of conditions. I shot 22 of the total 39 hours of footage and then took the best from all three crews, as well as some clips shot by the director, to make this 4.5-minute story. I encoded it for the Internet using Cleaner 6.5. The results exceed those possible if we had started off shooting lower res footage or used less versatile encoding software.
