Legal Video Depositions with MPEG-4 Compression

MPEG-4 Legal Video Depositions

MPEG-4 treats compression differently than either MPEG-1 or MPEG-2.  MPEG-4 legal video depositions offer higher image quality with smaller file sizes than either MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 video depositions.  MPEG-4 compresses files in a range from 5 Kbps to 10 Mbps making it adaptable for delivering video depositions to everything from cell phones to HD quality output.  Instead of interpreting each individual frame of a legal video deposition, MPEG-4 compresses images by reusing the image information without throwing away as much image data.  In addition to Wisconsin legal video depositions, MPEG-4 is commonly used for DivX movies.

MPEG-4 Legal Video Depositions, Summary

MPEG 4 encodes much more efficiently than other MPEG formats.  If you encode using the same settings some footage to MPEG-2 and to MPEG-4, MPEG-4 will beat it every time for file size and, possibly, image quality.  Even with an MPEG-2 file at almost double the bitrate of a MPEG-4/DivX file, the sharpness/clarity on a frame containing fast motion will almost always win with MPEG-4.

VIDEO BASICS    MPEG-1    MPEG-2

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