• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  how to encode for the web?

  Posted by Ryan Storm on May 20, 2009 at 12:00 am

  i have been trying many things but i can not seem to find the right settings for putting a video on the web that ends up looking decent. i have a 720p 24 sequence and everything looks wonderful when i export as a quicktime but once i put it on the web it looses its 16:9 dimensions, sometimes the sound is crap and text is all pixelated and jittery or its just plain to large of a file. i have been messing with compressor and failing at that as well (even after the apple tutorial on encoding for the web). any ideas?

  thanks in advance!

  Ryan

  Ryan Storm replied 16 years, 12 months ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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  Rob Grauert

  May 20, 2009 at 3:03 am

  Are you trying to encode a quicktime file?

  I load quicktime files to my website and this is what I do:

  For 16:9, try exporting with an image size of 480X270. Audio can be ACC, Mono, 44.1Khz 64bit. The data rate can be 800kbits per second and still maintain some nice image quality.

  I do all this with success, except since I still work with DV 4:3, I export an image of 480X320 instead.

  Robert J. Grauert, Jr.
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  Rob Grauert

  May 20, 2009 at 3:11 am

  I also forgot to mention that I set Key Frames as Automatic.

  Robert J. Grauert, Jr.
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  Rafael Amador

  May 20, 2009 at 1:36 pm

  Hi Ryan,
  Videos for the web are always Square pixels.
  If you want your videos keep the 16×9 aspect, they have to keep the 16×9 proportion.
  The size suggested by Rob is an example.
  480/16 = 270/9 = 30
  You can you can choose any other number. Multiply by 16 for the width and by 9 for the high.

  For 4×3 pictures is the same. But multiplying by 4 for the width and by 3 for the high of course.
  Rafael

  http://www.nagavideo.com
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  Ryan Storm

  May 21, 2009 at 12:27 am

  thanks Rob and Rafael! big help!

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