Following on from my previous post on using Miro Video Converter to convert your vidoe files in a snap. There is a new update now available with export settings for iPad and the new WebM format.

Taking a sample movie I had in Screenflow, that was 290MB lossless (1280x720 resolution and 1min 43 in duration). This resulted in an iPad formatted mp4 that was 14MB in size and a WebM movie that was 3MB , yes that’s right 3MB.

I should point out that the quality of the WebM; movie was good maybe not as sharp as the H.264 but at 3Mb who's complaining. However the audio track was a little bit thin and ‘tinny’ probably due to the 64k encoding preset rate for the Vorbis audio track. Miro is updated regularly so I expect to see an improvement in the audio bit rate for WebM .

To get your movies encoded easily for HTML5 Video without going near the command line , easily and cheaply, Miro Video Converter is worth a look.