I'm having difficulty in understanding your pricing structure, and in particular the explanation on your pages regarding average times per size of video. For example, on your 'Explanation of charges' page, it says:-
'For example, if you have a 2 GB video library (roughly 2 hours in length)...'
then it says further down the page:-
'One (1) GB of delivery roughly corresponds to four (4) hours of video watched by your users
Those 2 statements appear to conflict one another. 3 minute HD 720p mpg videos that i'm currently creating are taking up about 390MB (maybe I should be using a different HD format, i'm fairly new to all this)
Maybe it's best if I just tell you my requirements.
My website will eventually contain about 70 videos, each one lasting about 3 minutes. With any luck I might have anyway from 1000 to 5,000 users, the films are educational but they would only watch each one once or twice (generally, they are not films which will be viewed repeatedly). Is there any way of calculating my costs from these figures?
Thanks for any help.
Cheers,
Bernie
Hi Bernie, the platform usage differs from the streamed amount of video because we make a bunch of conversions for each video, at various sizes to enable bitrate switching functionality.
Unfortunately it is very hard to predict what the actual usage is, other than by just creating a free trial account and uploading one of your videos, and see what the resulting usage is.
If you click on the video details of a video you will see a "transcoding" tab. There you can find all the conversions that our system has created and what their filesizes are.