| | | | Flash Video FLV Properties Get Info
by Christina Crawley on Nov 20, 2009 at 8:47:07 pm
in the Adobe Flash Forum
Hello!
How can I view the video properties of an FLV movie? I want to access the same information about a FLV like I can for a MOV in Quicktime's Inspector. I'm looking for codec and compression specific information.
Thanks! | | | | |
| | | | Re: Help with trying to go HD, emphasis on key matte
by Mark Warren on Nov 20, 2009 at 5:45:12 pm
in the AJA io Forum
Tim -
Thanks for your time and advice.
I like the idea of an internal Kona card...although from my research, it looks like a Matrox MXO2 card would also work...is that correct? Do you have a preference on internal cards for the MAC?
Another | | | | |
| | | | Re: Importing MPEG's into After Effects
by Dave LaRonde on Nov 20, 2009 at 4:13:55 pm
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
[Trey Yoder] "...Please don't tell me to get a converter."
Well, then, you're stuck between a rock and a hard place, because AE doesn't play nice with mpeg. You could get MPEG Streamclip -- free, both mac & win. Google it. Or you could use Adob | | | | |
| | | | Re: FCP ProRes Workflow
by Benjamin McKay on Nov 20, 2009 at 3:41:49 pm
in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum
Another Question:
If I have ProRes SD footage. Is it better to work in a timeline that is set to "None" compression (which requires me to render the sequence) or to work in a sequence set to "ProRes"? When I render the footage in a "None" sequence | | | | |
| | | | Re: Help with trying to go HD, emphasis on key matte
by Tim Kolb on Nov 20, 2009 at 4:17:58 am
in the AJA io Forum
If you want to skip compression, you wouldn't bring in footage as XDcam, you'd bring it in uncompressed and then write the file (and compress) to ProRes.
If you ingest directly to your Mac, the IO HD would work if you want a portable external solu | | | | |
| | | | Re: Strange Compression Within FCP
by Dan McGuire on Nov 20, 2009 at 3:18:19 am
in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum
I've tried recapturing the footage, and it has the same issue. What I don't understand is why the source file would look fine when viewed in Quicktime, but degraded when exported from Final Cut. | | | | |
| | | | Re: Strange Compression Within FCP
by Shane Ross on Nov 19, 2009 at 11:50:05 pm
in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum
Well then, it isn't an FCP issue, it is an issue with the camera and/or the tape. Can you try to recapture the footage and see if it happens again? To rule out a slightly corrupt QT file. If it STILL does that, then it is an issue with the footage | | | | |
| | | | Re: Strange Compression Within FCP
by Dan McGuire on Nov 19, 2009 at 10:51:23 pm
in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum
Normally, I'd agree. Where it becomes an issue is when I export, and the mp4 is displaying the same problem. Also, I can't figure out why it's only happening to the footage from one out of three cameras. | | | | |
| | | | Re: Strange Compression Within FCP
by Shane Ross on Nov 19, 2009 at 9:25:24 pm
in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum
#2 Blurry Playback
Shane's Stock Answer #2: Blurry/Low Quality playback
ONLY JUDGE THE QUALITY OF YOUR MATERIAL ON AN EXTERNAL BROADCAST MONITOR, OR AT LEAST A TV.
The Canvas shows you what happens after the codec you are working with has be | | | | |
| | | | Strange Compression Within FCP
by Dan McGuire on Nov 19, 2009 at 9:08:52 pm
in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum
I'm working on a project currently, and I'm seeing something very odd happening to the quality of the video I'm working with. Within Final Cut, the image has what appears to be some kind of heavy compression. However, when I open the source clip in | | | | |
| | | | Re: Problem while animating vector files in AE
by Dave LaRonde on Nov 19, 2009 at 7:33:20 pm
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
[Madhanraj Dharmaraj] "...Open GL enabled...."
Disable Open GL for rendering RIGHT NOW. It does more harm than good. Even the folks at Adobe don't use Open GL for rendering, which should be a warning to you.
Unless your rendered AE file conta | | | | |
| | | | Re: Need Help! Roundtrip quality problem
by enrico parents on Nov 19, 2009 at 4:01:23 pm
in the Apple Color Forum
"By transcoding from DV to Prores with the media mangager, you've created an additional, needless round of compression. If your settings are wrong, you will have trashed your video by doing this."
This could have been the only tip you gave me, bu | | | | |
| | | | Re: CS3 export audio issues - Assistance Needed
by Owen Crist on Nov 19, 2009 at 7:42:24 am
in the Adobe Premiere Pro Forum
Hey, I was wondering what exactly you did to fix the issue involving the multiband compressor tracks. I need to keep the compression on there but taking it off seems like the only thing that helps. Does premiere add time to the track or something? | | | | |
| | | | Re: Compression for output of film?
by Vince Becquiot on Nov 19, 2009 at 5:07:01 am
in the Adobe Premiere Pro Forum
Going to DVD, you don't really have any choices, it's the Mpeg2 DVD export codec. The bit rate depends on the length of the movie. Under an hour, you can use 7.5 CBR, over that, use a bit rate calculator.
Some newer DVD players do support other fo | | | | |
| | | | Re: Which Video Compression to choose
by Ryan Hill on Nov 18, 2009 at 11:02:36 pm
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
Oh, yeah. I hadn't even considered that might be what he wants, to make it into a .swf animation.
You can still use bitmap still images, rather than vector art, but the restriction on filters is true, and you can't use 3D.
This talks a little a | | | | |
| | | | Re: animated stills go bad in dvd
by Stephen Smith on Nov 18, 2009 at 10:20:28 pm
in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum
If you can afford a Broadcast Monitor it is worth it. Things look different on a computer monitor, interlacing issues is a good example.
For DVD compression I recommend a Two Pass VBR. It is possible for Compressor to struggle with compressing an | | | | |
| | | | Re: Is Fibre Affordable yet?
by Matt Geier on Nov 18, 2009 at 8:27:00 pm
in the SAN - Storage Area Networks Forum
Todd,
Nice post, but I think you'll find that spending 20K+ on a set up that will support you in the way you want, will be what's expected.
Fibre Channel is still pricy after you start adding in client licenses, hardware, then redundancy for t | | | | |
| | | | Compression for output of film?
by vinny dellay on Nov 18, 2009 at 7:23:41 pm
in the Adobe Premiere Pro Forum
Hello!
I'm an independent filmmaker and am editing my first feature film. I've been editing in Premiere CS4 raw, uncompressed footage this whole time and am now wondering how I'm going to get this film to fit on a DVD. One five minute scene is s | | | | |
| | | | Re: MPEG-2 Editing Myths
by Dave LaRonde on Nov 18, 2009 at 4:27:58 pm
in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum
I notice this came from BROADCAST ENGINEERING magazine and not from "Desktop Editing" magazine. The kinds of edit systems this guy is talking about can most certainly deal with MPEG2.
Such edit systems can also start playing out a news story over | | | | |
| | | | Re: FCP 2K Timeline Realtime and Not Realtime?
by Liam Ward on Nov 18, 2009 at 4:25:06 pm
in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum
Hi Gary,
I could walk you through our entire cutting process, but seeing as there are no problems up until the end, I will just stick with the online process.
The locked cut (which was cut in ProRes HQ 23.98) is knocked offline and re-connected | | | | |
| | | | Re: Which Video Compression to choose
by david bogie on Nov 18, 2009 at 3:53:11 pm
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
this was posted by Todd over the Adobe AE forum:
In most cases, you want to export a Flash video (FLV) file, not a SWF file. Exporting a SWF file is only a good idea when you only use vector graphics in AE, and you limit yourself to using feature | | | | |
| | | | Re: Which Video Compression to choose
by david bogie on Nov 18, 2009 at 3:45:01 pm
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
This kind of question gets asked often around here and it usually indicates little knowledge of Flash which is a programming environment, sort of. Your video can be played back from a Flash interface using many different codecs.Open the Flash manual | | | | |
| | | | Re: HD credits on SD TV
by Mark Raudonis on Nov 18, 2009 at 3:42:58 pm
in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum
Despite everyone's efforts to create the best looking credits, all that work is often in vain.
Networks can and do employ "time compression" boxes which will totally trash anyone's careful
calculations for "best speed" crawls. This is most typic | | | | |
| | | | Re: Need Help! Roundtrip quality problem
by Arnie Schlissel on Nov 18, 2009 at 2:56:24 pm
in the Apple Color Forum
Enrico, I don't mean to offend you, but either you really need to learn some fundamentals about how video works, or you really need to take this to someone who can do this for you the correct way.
By transcoding from DV to Prores with the media ma | | | | |
| | | | Re: Why does MPG change CUTS into FADES?
by D. Eric Franks on Nov 18, 2009 at 2:52:16 pm
in the Sony Vegas Forum
There is a third option too, which is that you can drop I-frames on the last frame of the one clip and the first frame of the next, so you get two I-frames in a row, sandwiching the cut. That clearly bumps the data rate way up momentarily and breaks | | | | |
| | | | Which Video Compression to choose
by Brandon Baldauf on Nov 18, 2009 at 11:14:40 am
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
I am working on a small project that I will be importing into Flash as a video. I need to keep the filesize small but I do not want to pixilate my work. What is a recomended video format that keeps a happy medium.
I am trying to keep the project t | | | | |
| | | | Re: Exporting smaller files?
by Jon Barrie on Nov 17, 2009 at 10:56:38 pm
in the Adobe Premiere Pro Forum
If playback is not smooth then there could an issue with different frame rates. Happy says you are working with 30fps. Be sure the timeline and export settings march that. Your codec is xvid -which is heavily compressed. You are never going to get gr | | | | |
| | | | Re: suggestions on hardware set-up
by rick fetters on Nov 17, 2009 at 10:23:04 pm
in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum
I mentioned the MXO2mini with the Max option because of the possibility of using my existing Macbook pro laptop with its PCI slot. The function of the the Matrox unit would be for external monitor, input and transcoding/compression acceleration. I | | | | |
| | | | Motion Menu Displays Pixelated in DVDSP
by Garrett Cumber on Nov 17, 2009 at 10:01:10 pm
in the Apple DVD Studio Pro Forum
I can't even tell you how many options I've tried to get the menu to display crisply. I made all the elements in PS (CS4) saved them all as PNGs (Alpha Channel + Non Interlaced) then did all the animation in Motion. I have to say it looks really grea | | | | |
| | | | Re: Is it just me or is my EX1 recording bad?
by olof ekbergh on Nov 17, 2009 at 9:51:34 pm
in the Sony EX Series XDCAM Forum
What profile are you using.
I have keyed much worse.
Yes I do see some noise here and there.
I am just wondering how much you messed with profiles if at all?
Try uncompressed instead of ProRes or if you have the new QT try the highest dat | | | | |
| | | | Re: Premiere Pro 2.0 Export to QT
by Judy Natale on Nov 17, 2009 at 8:29:03 pm
in the Adobe Premiere Pro Forum
You Rock! That did it. Now I just have to find out which version was the first to have .264 Compression and if it will work with Pro 2.0. I have purchased CS4, but am in the middle of a project and having issues with new CS4 install (BS like keybo | | | | |
| | | | unable to import vectors into invigorator pro
by Tim Stainton on Nov 17, 2009 at 7:40:10 pm
in the Zaxwerks Forum
I've just recently been upgraded to CS4 (from CS3).
I've been working with Invigorator Pro for year's and am only now having a problem importing vectors.
I've got a file with 21 layers (not unusual). All layers outlined black text, saved with compr | | | | |
| | | | Re: Color and HDV
by Timothy Payton on Nov 17, 2009 at 7:30:02 pm
in the Apple Color Forum
I just wanted to chime in also that I am having zero issues with HDV and Color (well besides the nasty MPEG2 compression). I try to transcode to prorez before going to Color, but when space or time is short I just pull the HDV right into to color and | | | | |
| | | | Convergent Design | nano takes EX3 to new level
In today's High Definition video production world, digital acquisition is now the mainstream workflow for a wide spectrum of production levels. In this article, CreativeCOW leader Michael Palmer takes a look at Convergent Design's new nanoFlash SDI/HDMI digital recorder.
Review, Editorial
Author: Michael Palmer |
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| | | | Apple Final Cut Pro | Compression with Turbo
In this Final Cut Pro tutorial, Richard Harrington take a look at the elgato turbo.264. This is a USB add on device that accelereates the h.264 encoding you can do on your Mac. The turbo.264 comes with its own compression software with presets for iPod, iPhone, Sony PSP, Apple TV and YouTube.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial
Author: Richard Harrington |
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| | | | Compression techniques | Jerry Hofmann reviews: The Sorenson Squeeze 4 Compression Suite
In this article, Jerry Hofmann reviews the Sorenson Squeeze 4 Compression Suite. "If you've read my reviews before about Sorenson's efforts in the Mac World, you'll know I've long been a fan of the company's products. The ALL NEW version of Sorenson Compression suite 4 is shipping now, and is by far the company's best effort to date, and I've been running the Squeeze 3 version, and have always found it easy to use, but this new version really takes the cake. Sporting a much beefier interface, Sorenson's new release adds new support for HD, including Apple's own recent codec, H.264. This is just the beginning however."
Review
Author: Jerry Hofmann |
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| | | | Media 100 | Media 100 HD | Media 100's 'Lossless' Compression: What Does It Mean?
With Media 100's recent announcement and unveiling of its 'lossless' compression protocol, many users have expressed a lot of dismay and frustration at the news. Some have expressed support. What are the facts and why is this a good thing for some and a frustrating bit of news for others? Who is right and what lies at the heart of this latest bit of news from Marlboro, Massachusetts? In this article, Ron Lindeboom digs through the aftermath of the NAB news and with help from Philip Hodgetts and other noted industry leaders, gives this summery for those interested...
Editorial, Feature
Author: Ron Lindeboom |
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| | | | Compression techniques | Cross-Platform Workflows using SheerVideo compression
In this Creative COW Magazine article, David Battistella takes a look at cross-platform workflows using the SheerVido Codec. SheerVideo is a family of lossless codecs developed by BitJazz for professional-quality uncompressed video. David does a great job in this article explaining the how, why, and if you should utilize this codec into your workflow.
Review, Feature
Author: David Battistella |
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| | | | Apple Final Cut Pro | Final Cut Studio 3 is here, and all is good!
Our man in Nepal, Jiggy Gaton, likes to live for danger. He installed a major software upgrade mid-project, with virtually no preparation, just to see what would break. Lo and behold, it all worked! And the more Jiggy works with it, the better he's liking it. Join him in this Creative COW, Real-world, Real-time Report on Final Cut Studio 3.
Review
Author: Jiggy Gaton |
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| | | | Compression techniques | How To Preserve Detail in Mini-Media Movies
In this Creative COW Magazine article Aharon Rabinowitz discusses distributing mini-media formats across the web, mobile phones and other devices. Aharon gets into the specific aspects of this growing market and covers common questions like, When to use Flash or Quicktime? What compression should I use? What bit rate? and gives helpful tips for distributing your videos to some of the most popular areas such as YouTube.
Tutorial, Feature
Author: Aharon Rabinowitz |
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| | | | Telestream Episode | Telestream Episode Pro
Recently, Creative COW leader and business owner Walter Biscardi needed a very flexible and fast compression tool that also provided extremely high quality end products for his clients. Oh, and it needed to be easy to use. Enter Telestream's Episode and Episode Pro. In this review, he's using Episode Pro 5.1.1 and he'll explain the differences between the two at the end of this article.
Review
Author: Walter Biscardi |
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| | | | Compression techniques | Jim Harvey reviews "Creating Web Video"
A DVD about compression gets an enthusiastic 5 Cow rating? Really? Really! CreativeCOW.net Contributing Editor Jim Harvey takes you inside the new Creative Cow Master Series DVD by Aharon Rabinowitz, "Creating Web Video: Internet Killed the Video Star." See why Jim thinks this is one of the most essential --- and enjoyable -- training DVDs you can buy.
Review
Author: Jim Harvey |
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| | | | Compression techniques | Jerry Hofmann reviews Sorenson
Need to do quality compressions of QuickTime movies and don't know much about it? Jerry Hofmann takes a look at a new product called Sorenson Squeeze brought to us by a company long recognized for supplying the finest codecs used for QuickTime compressions, Sorenson.
Review
Author: Jerry Hofmann |
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Podcasts | | | | adobe after effects tutorials podcast
An Introduction to Video Compression
This is Chapter 1 of the New Creative Cow Master Series DVD, Internet Killed the Video Star. Aharon Rabinowitz shows what you need to make your video look best in Flash, on the web, or in podcasts. | | | | |
| | | | final cut help tutorials podcast
Compression with Turbo
In this Final Cut Pro podcast, Richard Harrington takes a look at using the elgato turbo.264 to speed up your compression process when exporting or rendering for iPod, iPhone, YouTube or other devices that you need to compress to. | | | | |
| | | | creative cow podcast
Episode #069 - March 31, 2009
Audio Mastering Part 1 with Charlie Grover, Skype for iPhone and Blackberry, 3ds Max 2010, Adobe Director 11.5, RE:Vision Effects ReelSmart Blur, Fusion SWAT training, Wirecast 3.5 and more creative news and interviews - creativecow.net | | | | |
| | | | adobe after effects tutorials podcast
Final Delivery
Aharon Rabinowitz discusses the process and pitfalls of final delivery of a project. Topics covered include: Project Specifications, Hardware and software specifications, Safe Areas, Compression formats and software, and issues with various DVD media. | | | | |
| | | | boris fx tutorials podcast
Boris Continuum Complete 6 - DV Fixer
DV video is prone to jaggy edges and compression artifacts. DV Fixer in the Boris BCC 6 plug-in will greatly improve the look of your clip without sacrificing image detail or quality. Watch how it's done inside Adobe After Effects CS4. | | | | |
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