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Best Codec for good audio/video when exporting to 3G in FCP
I have FCP 6.06. I have a few videos I’ve tried converting to 3G using Quick Time Conversion and every setting: Default, 3GPP – Release 5, 3GPP2 – Release A, 3GPP – Mobile MP4, 3GPP2 – EZmovie and AMC – EZmovie. Every one has blurry video and poor quality audio both when I play it on my computer and after I copy it to my phone. Any ideas why and how I can improve the quality of the video and audio which looks good in FCP before conversion. Thanks
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most 3g presets are dial-up quality. 25-40kbps whereas video for iPods are normally 600-1500kbps. quality is to 3g as honest is to politicians.
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are you using 3G because it’s the name of your phone? 3g has been around since the nineties I think, they’re not related. there’s a compressor droplet in 3.5 (FCP 7), h.264 640×480 1500kbit. I don’t know if FCS1 would have it but you can just use those settings. good luck
Sam Ellens
Intern – Zamasti Films
4th year at Ryerson University – Radio and Television ArtsMy system: iMac 21.5 3.06GhZ 4GB
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I’m using 3G because an honest politician told me too. Actually, I thought that’s what the phone needed to play. I didn’t realize I could use other formats. So what’s the best recommendation for a codec, size, format etc… that will play on a Blackberry Curve 8900? I thought they’d only play 3G or 3G with lots of P’s format so that’s what I selected in FCP. Other thoughts?
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Firstly, .3gp is a container format developed for the 3g mobile phone platform, so thinking that just because the phone is 3g, .3gp is a working format is a correct choice.
From the Blackberry website:
* High resolution 480×360 pixel color display
* Supports over 65,000 colorsYour target device has a 4:3 square pixel output display.
It also looks like it is only capable of thousands of colours!!!
.3gp has problems with the anamorphic flag so encoding to square pixel is your best choice. see thread here for more detail:https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/291/5#5This means letterboxing any non-4:3 content and outputting 480×360.
Secondly, the .3gp container can contain several different codecs. H.264, H.263 and Mpeg4Layer2… and others.
1. H.264 might not play on all phones but is the most efficient.
2. H.263 is widely compatible but limited to several pre-defined sizes and less efficient.
3. Mpeg4Layer2 (standard mpeg4) is the most flexible and compatible but the lowest of efficiency.Finally,
Do not export this from final cut pro. Export a full quality master file from final cut pro and feed it to compressor. In compressor, you might want to create a custom .3gp template to be able to target your device size (480×360) and take care of any letterboxing issues.Michael
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Missed this bit on the Blackberry page:
* Video Format Support: XviD (MPEG4 Advance Simple Profile), H.263, WMV3
* Audio Format Support: .3gp, WAV, MIDI, AMR-NB, G711u/A, GSM610, PCM, MP3, AAC/AAC+/eAAC+, WMA9/10 Standard/ProAlthough it does not list .3gp as a video format, I would give it ago anyway as it will most probably work;-) (xvid, H.263 and wmv3 are codecs, not container formats)
Michael
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