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16:9 HDV to 4:3 or 3:2 FLV
I need a workflow to be able to go from an edited 16:9 HDV timeline in FCP to a 3:2 or 4:3 FLV file for embedding in a website. My 16:9 HDV was shot with a wide angle lens and has some shading in the corners of the frame, so I need to crop the sides off and keep the middle, hence the 3:2 or 4:3 output. I would like to keep the Hi-def if possible but if I must drop the HD timeline into an SD timeline and then scale it so be it. I’m looking for the best possible video quality I can get with a 512 kbps FLV output. Can anyone please help me, I am under a lot of pressure to get this out. Thanks.
I use a iMac G5 2.1 GHZ w/2.5 GB ram, and Final Cut Pro 5.4. I also have Sorenson Squeeze 4.5.
John Huff
Lake Oconee Video Editing and Production
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Just scale the video up on the FCP timeline enough to hide the vignetting. FCP does a very good job of scaling, and if even noticable it will only be slightly soft. Without anything to compare it to nobody except you will ever know.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los AngelesPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™
A forum host of Creative COW’s Business & Marketing, and Indie Film & Documentary forums.
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Hi David,
Do you mean just scale the HDV up to where the vignetting disappears?
JohnJohn Huff
Lake Oconee Video Editing and Production
Eatonton, Georgia -
Hi David,
Do you mean just scale each clip in the HDV timeline up to where the vignetting disappears?Then how do I get the FLV file? Do I export the scaled HDV timeline as a self-contained .mov file and then squeeze it? Can you convert a hi-def .mov file to an FLV file? If so that will be a great resolution video file, and I won’t mind that its 16:9.
Are my assumptions correct here?
Thanks, David.
Best Regards,
JohnJohn Huff
Lake Oconee Video Editing and Production
Eatonton, Georgia -
[John Huff] “Do you mean just scale each clip in the HDV timeline up to where the vignetting disappears?”
Yep, that’s what I meant.
[John Huff] “Do I export the scaled HDV timeline as a self-contained .mov file and then squeeze it?”
Yep!
[John Huff] “Can you convert a hi-def .mov file to an FLV file?”
Yep!
[John Huff] “If so that will be a great resolution video file, and I won’t mind that its 16:9.”
Yep!!!
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los AngelesPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™
A forum host of Creative COW’s Business & Marketing, and Indie Film & Documentary forums.
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I recently needed to output HDV to FLV (using the adobe flash encoder) and one thing I discovered was that I got better results when I first created an SD .mov and then encoded that for the web (flv). Of course, Squeeze may do a better job on the scaling end than Adobe. It may be worth doing a short test, since the difference was quite significant in my case.
David
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I have not heard wonderful things about the stock encoder in Adobe Flash, so I’m assuming what you’re seeing is just related to that app.
I use On2 Flix Pro and I can assure you, the better the source, the better the end result. Starting with HD files yields glorius Flash video results.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los AngelesPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™
A forum host of Creative COW’s Business & Marketing, and Indie Film & Documentary forums.
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