If your Audio, Video or Photographs aren't looking or sounding as they should online or they are taking way too long too download or play, it may well be that they are not in their optimum format for use on the internet.
The other scenario is that you want to restrict the quality of the work or media that you give away for free or make available for other people to use (saving the best for sales or for a specific purpose).
Photography
We can quickly and cost effectively batch process your pictures to make them more manageable and useable.
This process includes:
1. Naming and numbering the batch of your photos to help you find them more easily.
2. Inserting a watermark if required (eg Artist Name and/or Website).
3. Your photos in 3 sizes - Small, Medium, Large.
Price: £40 (for up to 120 photographs)
Do you have a favourite photograph(s) that you want to add something different to?
We can enhance most pictures to bring out the best in them. This can be cropping, changing to black & white, removing or enhancing colour elements or any combination of these. Price: £5 (per picture / version)
| What's wrong with this picture? - Nothing, she's gorgeous and the picture is clear, but they're very different in size which could add up to a very slow page or website if you have multiple images. |
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| JPG - 36KB |
GIF - 52KB |
PNG - 152KB |
Audio
We re-encode audio files to their optimum level for different purposes including the internet and MP3 / iPod playback.
You don't have to know / understand much about bit rates (if anything as we'll do it for you) but there's an ideal rate for most purposes. In a 99% of the time nutshell CD is as good as it gets and MP3's are lower quality.
The bit rate of a CD is 1141 kbits/s, widely used MP3 rates are 96, 112, 128, 160, 192, 224, 256 and 320 kbit/s.
Basically 128k should be your absolute minimum and it will download quickly on the internet, 256k is noticably better (use this as your download rate in iTunes) and 320k is when most people will not hear an appreciable difference between MP3 and CD quality.
Blah, Blah, Yawn - What does this mean for me?
Incorrectly encoded audio files for internet use can either take too long to download if their resolution is too high or they don't sound very good if it is too low. The scenario is similar for MP3 / iPod use - higher resolution files take up much more space, but low resolution files don't sound as good.
We will re-encode your demo CD for optimum internet playback.
Price: £5 (per track - volume discount available)
Backing Track Optimisation / Format change
Send us the original backing tracks to your main set on CD and we will give them an audio makeover.
Are some much louder than others? Do some seem to have more sparkle than others?
The latest tracks you buy are more likely to be of a higher quality but the old ones are most likely sounding tired and dated.
We will:
1. Even out volume level between tracks to stop you having to dive for a fader when a certain song comes on.
2. Apply multiband compression and audio enhancers to give ALL of your tracks 'sparkle'.
3. Supply a mono version of each track processed.
4. Supply an enhanced stereo version of each track processed.
Price: £5 (per track - volume discount available)
We're not suggesting you optimise your complete library, just your main set. Maybe just get one done to see if it makes a difference - it's a major part of your sound and your performance.
Minidisc to iPod
We can transfer your tracks from minidisc to MP3 and apply all of the enhancements listed above. This has to be done in real time so there is no volume discount.
Price: £5 (per track)
Video
SImilar to audio files (but more complicated) video needs to be encoded at the optimum rate to acheive a balance of quality and download speed on the internet.
We will re-encode your original video footage from CD or DVD to whatever format you require.
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