Can I prepare my own MP4 streamable video files myself?
Yes you can. If you want total control over the final resulting movie and you want to do things like apply a special amount of cropping to your source video or if you want to adjust brightness levels etc., you can prepare your own MP4 video files in the correct format and bitrate for FamilyCam streaming. But, the FamilyCam uploader is the ideal tool to use and it is designed to apply a 2% zoom to all 4×3 source video to remove jagged edges and things like overscan. However, if you give the FamilyCam uploader app a correctly prepared H264-encoded MP4 video in one of the two fundamental FamilyCam formats (see below), it will recognise that it does not need to convert your MP4 video and it will upload it directy to your FamilyCam account. How do I prepare my own streamable MP4 video files? This advice is for advanced users only. Although you can use Apple’s Quicktime Pro to generate perfect H264-encoded MP4 streamable video files in exactly the right format for FamilyCam, Quicktime does n
