Stephen Nathans-Kelly, a video producer at Streaming Media Magazine, is carving conference videos into short useful segments. Here are the first two videos on building your encoding ladder from my talk on how to use objective quality metrics you can watch in its entirety here, as well as download the handout. The first video covers the bitrate side, the second how to choose the best resolution.
Here’s Part 1: Bitrates
Here’s Part 2: Resolutions
Hope you find these useful.