Vimeo Respects the Specs: Better Audio Quality Encoding, Frame Rate Guidelines Update

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There’s no doubt that things can get a bit confusing regarding non-integer frame rates — a decimal-specific frames-per-second count isn’t exactly an intuitive aspect of video. Of course, beginners can’t learn such distinctions if they’re going unspecified — a fact Vimeo has recently (and finally) addressed in updating their compression guidelines. Even more importantly, Vimeo is slowly but surely raising the quality ceiling in its encoding of your media — albeit in audio-only, in this case.

Get Specific With Specs

The worst thing for someone still learning the ropes of digital video is when the video services around them glaze over the specs — 24 is different than 23.976 — and if you want the best possible control over the quality of your media (which you probably do), understanding such details is important. As ProVideoCoalition points out, Vimeo’s compression documentation now includes the non-integer cousins of actual whole-number frame rates. Both types were always supported in its encoding (“same as source”), but in a world of potentially confusing number-letter combinations, being specific is healthy. It also avoids rounding (i.e. referring to 23.976 as 23.98), thankfully — the less confusing this stuff has to be, the better — and just calling it what is simplifies everything.

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By: Dave Kendricken

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