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Pricing for Video is based on several factors:

1. How Long is the Video?

2. What Video Format/Architecture (QuickTime, Real, Windows Media)?

3. What Data Rate?

4. What Frame Rate?

5. What Window Size?

6. Delivery Method: Progressive, Streaming or DVD?

One of the most frequently asked questions about delivering online video is "What's the difference between streaming video and downloading video?" Let's face it, as a user clicking a video link on a web page, you often won't know which method you're using, unless you poke around a little. But streaming and downloading are distinct methods of delivery, each with its own benefits and limitations.

Streaming media is multimedia that is continuously received by, and normally displayed to, the end-user while it is being delivered by the provider. The name refers to the delivery method of the medium rather than to the medium itself. The distinction is usually applied to media that are distributed over telecommunications networks, as most other delivery systems are either inherently streaming (e.g. radio, television) or inherently non-streaming (e.g. books, video cassettes, audio CDs). The verb 'to stream' is also derived from this term, meaning to deliver media in this manner.

Delivering your video file using a web server is sometimes referred to as "progressive download". It may appear to be streaming since playback can begin almost immediately. The "progressive download" feature in most media players allows them to begin playing the file as soon as enough data has been downloaded. Of course, you can't fast-forward to the end of the file until the whole file arrives from the server.

The main reason for downloading video from your Web server is that it's simple and you can do it with infrastructure you already have. It's most useful when your videos are short, when you're more interested in delivering high-bitrate encodings than in delivering in real time, or when you want your viewers to be able to keep a copy of the video on their own computers.

Streaming is the better solution when your clips are more than a few minutes long, when you want to enable interactive applications like video search or linking deep into a file, or you want to collect statistics on what's actually being watched. Streaming is the way to go when you want to control the impact of video on your network, or when you need to support large numbers of viewers. And of course, it's the only way to do live webcasts and multicasting.

What is video encoding and why is it important?

First of all, digital video files are HUGE. Roughly five minutes of uncompressed video will consume nearly one gigabyte of space on your hard drive, and no one -­ not even your adoring mother -- is going to download or stream a video that large. So compression helps you optimize the video while retaining the highest quality possible for distribution on the Web.

The file compression process begins when we take your edited video clip and encode to a particular video format -- e.g., QuickTime, Windows Media, or Real Media -- and compress the file size to output to either CD, DVD, or the Web. Encoding for the Web is the trickiest part as there are far more variables to deal with, such as constrained bandwidth, which results in jerky, annoying videos on the Web.

In order to encode a steady sample, it's important to have a well-shot video source. This is why you don't see many MTV-style videos on the web -- the transitions are too fast, rapid camera movement doesn't compress well, and you're likely to have jerky, delayed images, even when compressed at a low frame rate.

The optimal goal is to produce the highest quality video that streams with minimal or no interruptions and a quick download. For Web delivery, this means trade-offs.

On one hand, if you produce a high quality video with a high frame rate (regular movies play at 24 frames per second), a large viewing window, and a high data rate, you will get a video that looks great but will only be viewable for people with fast connections. If you encode with speed and delivery in mind, the quality suffers. In an era of instant gratification, there is no quick fix for making quality video accessible to a wide audience. Finding a balance between video quality and connection speed that best serves your target audience is the key.