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Re: Video format for EVERYONE
by Daniel Low on Nov 10, 2009 at 8:56:49 am
in the Compression techniques Forum
MPEG-1 goes up to 4000x4000 just that most transcoders don't offer that.
If you know what you are doing you can try editing the compressor setting itself in TextEdit, it's not that difficult. Find the settings in /library/application support/compressor/
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Re: Video format for EVERYONE
by Daniel Low on Nov 9, 2009 at 11:29:54 am
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Sadly not that easy, one thing is your requirement for a video frame size of 1024x768 which is going to need a pretty beefy machine to play back at a decent frame rate.
That aside, if your priority is for Windows...
Re: Can I put an FCP video file and an ac3 audio file through Compressor to get a combined result?
by Daniel Low on Sep 15, 2009 at 9:37:48 pm
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Have a try with MPEGStream clip from Squared5. It should mux the two files IIRC.
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Re: 60fps to 25fps for SD DVD PAL
by Daniel Low on Aug 7, 2009 at 9:15:39 am
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Just send the client the NTSC DVDs. 99.9% of dvd players sold in PAL land for several years will play NTSC perfectly happily.
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Re: H.264 Gamma Bug - Player or File?
by Daniel Low on May 12, 2009 at 6:54:24 am
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The bug is with Quicktime, not H.264. It's specific to the Quicktime implementation of Quicktime, not the H.264 standard. Quicktime is not just a player.
Nobody ever said the bug makes the video look horrible, it's a subtle shift, not catastrophic....
Re: Encoding PAL DV for website
by Daniel Low on May 11, 2009 at 6:23:42 am
in the Web Streaming - Audio|Video Forum
There's no real need to worry about PAL versions of frames sizes for the web but if you wanted to be closer to a PAL divisible then look at.
768x576 instead of 640x480
384x388 instead of 320x240
192x144 instead of 160x120 (although you...
Re: Quicktime files won't autoplay
by Daniel Low on Feb 8, 2009 at 9:15:16 pm
in the Web Streaming - Audio|Video Forum
No, just switching to H.264 won't have an immediate impact on data rates.
If you are serious about producing high quality output at low data rates then you'll need to do the final compression steps in a dedicated encoding application, not...
Re: Quicktime files won't autoplay
by Daniel Low on Feb 8, 2009 at 11:51:20 am
in the Web Streaming - Audio|Video Forum
Your clips download almost instantly for me but I'm on a fast connection. However your clips are encoded with a ridiculously high data rate: eg HollyLaneAnim is at nearly 14Mb/s
Some tip to improve:
Use H.264 over MPEG-4
At that frame size (with...
Re: Wedding Video Export To Quicktime Anxiety
by Daniel Low on Oct 3, 2008 at 5:16:42 pm
in the Compression techniques Forum
Correct - not choosing 'current settings' and then even choosing the same setting as your project are set to will cause it to be totally and unnecessarily re-rendered.
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Re: Wedding Video Export To Quicktime Anxiety
by Daniel Low on Oct 3, 2008 at 12:08:09 pm
in the Compression techniques Forum
Export from FCP 'using current settings' - don't re-render.
Open compressor and drag and drop the file into it.
Apply an SD DVD preset that matches the length of the video in total minutes, best quality.
Use the ac3 audio.
Author with the resulting...
Re: Output to HD from HD
by Daniel Low on Jul 1, 2008 at 9:05:08 am
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Use compressor to convert to H.264. Page 154 of the compressor 3 user manual guides you through the process for H.264 1920x1080.
For going to an SD/DVD format you'll find a bunch of posts in this forum covering the...
Re: H.264 in Sorenson
by Daniel Low on Mar 15, 2008 at 5:56:57 pm
in the Compression techniques Forum
Not sure what sort of audience you are aiming at but you could start with say the 'HD_720p' preset under the MPEG-4 (.mp4) Format settings.
You have a choice of CODEC, Apple AVC or Sorenson AVC Pro
There's nothing specific relating to...
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Re: High quality videos available on our site for viewing by public.
by Phil Balsdon on Mar 12, 2009 at 3:33:32 pm
in the Web Streaming - Audio|Video Forum
Hi David,
I just went through this process for my own website.
The first thing I found was the original quality and shooting style had a great deal to do with final output quality. Material shot originally in progressive scan faired a...
iMac Core Compression
by Trent Whittington on Jan 24, 2009 at 12:16:13 pm
in the Compression techniques Forum
Hello fellow COW,
After recently reading a forum post in another COW forum about enabling Compressor to do multi core processing I thought I would do some experiments with Apple QMaster on my Intel Core 2 DUO 3.06Ghz iMac.
So for those...
Re: Compressing for YouTube
by Brian Gary on Dec 17, 2008 at 3:41:54 am
in the Compression techniques Forum
I've updated the article on Ken Stone's site:
http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/you_tube_hd_gary.html
Thank you for the interest.
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Re: Best compression product
by Charlotte Warner on Jul 16, 2008 at 7:11:50 am
in the Compression techniques Forum
I thought I'd close this thread with my impressions of Cinema Craft Encoder MP: it's simply remarkable.
I did have to experiment with various settings to figure out the best ones for my video files, but once I did...
Re: DVD to MPEG software
by Sam Mattern on May 14, 2008 at 7:05:11 am
in the Compression techniques Forum
First of all, Daniel, thanks for suggesting SUPER. You're completely right about the website, as it took me nearly 3 minutes to find the link for the download. My advice to everyone...don't give up. Actually, to save...
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