• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Output codec for Flash re-encoding?

  Posted by Phillip Van west on April 5, 2006 at 12:01 am

  I have a short (3 min) movie that I need to give to someone else so that he can encode it with the “On2 VP6” codec for web use.

  I have the Sorenson Squeeze suite but not the plug-in for that codec. He has Flash 8 and can make the movie with that codec.

  My question is: What compression scheme should I use for the file I give him? I WOULD simply give him an uncompressed .mov
  but it’s 7.2 GB and I need to get it to him on one DVD (just for the file transfer) since he doesn’t use a Mac, so I can’t span it over 2
  discs with Toast as I normally would.

  Any educated advice? Thanks very much in advance.

  pvw

  Phil Van West
  Terra Nova Productions LLC
  Denver, CO
  Video Production/Post-Production

  G5 DP 2.5GHz / 4.5 GB RAM / 2x250GB SATA / OS 10.4.4 / FCP 5.0.4 / QT 7.0.4

  Stevec replied 20 years, 1 month ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  David Roth weiss

  April 5, 2006 at 1:36 am

  Phil,

  Certainly delivering in an uncompressed format would be best, but since you can’t, give him a QT with photo JPEG compression. Its a very high quality lossless compression scheme that yields very much smaller files than uncompressed. Flash 8 with the On2 VP6 codec is pretty awesome and will make great stuff that pretty much matches the original in terms of quality, but the files are small and fast loading.

  DRW
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  Phillip Van west

  April 5, 2006 at 3:18 am

  Thanks, David, for that quick response. I’ll give it a try.

  pvw

  Phil Van West
  Terra Nova Productions LLC
  Denver, CO
  Video Production/Post-Production

  G5 DP 2.5GHz / 4.5 GB RAM / 2x250GB SATA / OS 10.4.6 / FCP 5.0.4 / QT 7.0.4
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  Stevec

  April 5, 2006 at 4:07 pm

  You could also burn the uncompressed file to a double layer DVD, assuming he has a DVD player that can read a DL DVD.

  Thanks

  Steve

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