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  Export for flash compression

  Posted by Jim Mulleder on June 3, 2010 at 7:01 pm

  Hello compression artists,

  I have a client that wants uncompressed files for flash compression to be used in an on-line learning environment. Most of the video is talking heads shot in DV widescreen. My 20 second export out of FCP was 550MB at around 230MB/second, 8 bit uncompressed. I don’t know if we are really gaining anything using such high data rates at 720×486 when this is going down to flash anyway. I know garbage in,garbage out but this seems a little excessive.

  What do you folks use when exporting for Flash video?

  Thanks all,
  Jim

  Jim Mulleder
  Level Horizon Productions
  Cameraman/Editor
  778.888.4336

  Jim Mulleder replied 15 years, 11 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Craig Seeman

  June 3, 2010 at 7:12 pm

  You could just export as DV .mov files.
  If they were planing to do any heavy compositing before hand, being in a 4:2:2 format might help but otherwise not really.
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  Jim Mulleder

  June 4, 2010 at 6:20 pm

  Hi Craig,

  I did try your recommendation plus and 8 bit uncompressed, the files were only 3GB. I’ll let them see if they can see the difference.

  Thanks,
  Jim

  Jim Mulleder
  Level Horizon Productions
  Cameraman/Editor
  778.888.4336

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