H.264 Video Compression Settings
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Michael Verdi passed along this video compression recipe, which works really well for small videos.
The only thing missing is that sometimes it is good to make the key frame automatic — or specify something more frequent than 24 frames if you’re having too much compression artifacts.
For longer videos, it might take a bit longer.
Written up for my own reference, but also to share with the Drupal community here:
groups.drupal.org/node/2424#comment-22103