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How to compress correctly for Quicktime file?
Hello All,
Can anyone explain a good way to compress for QT 6 a 5 mintute video from the Vegas 6 timeline?
I just not understand how Quicktime works and the files I render are way to big for the web. Any suggetsions? Thx -
7 Replies
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Personally I now use SwishVideo 2
https://www.swishzone.com/or FLV Generator
https://www.myaffiliatecenter.com/1/scs0.htmlBoth will make good quality .flv Flash videos of good quality with a choice of inbuilt players and can generate an .html file ready for the web. The sizes of the files are minute compared to a Quicktime. Example, 108MB Quicktime turns into a 1.5MB Flash video and the quality is surprising. FLV Generator takes AVI’s, Mpeg’s and WMV’s and Swish will also take QTime MOV files.
Chris Young
CYV Productions
Sydney -
Hi Chris,
Can you please tell me which one of these two products you would get if you could only get one?
Which is the most user friendly?
Maybe a quick review on both?
Thanks,
Mike Sullivan -
Mike ~
Both are very easy to use. If anything the quality on the current version of Swish (v2) I think is a little better but unless you are comparing both Swish and FLV output files directly side by side on the same avi encode you would never really know the difference. The big plus for me is that Swish 2 handles QuickTime files for encoding whereas FLV won’t.
Having battled for ages to get the best results I find the following work flow gives very good results. Don’t ask me why but it does. You can go from a 720 x 576 or 720 x 480 avi straight into Swish but the best results I have got is by exporting from Vegas in the dimensions that I want my final Flash video (.flv file) to be, let’s say Multimedia 320 x 240 as an example. Go to ‘Render As’ select QuickTime, next go to the ‘Custom’ tab then select the ‘Video’ tab and from the drop down menu select, in this case, Multimedia 320 x 240 and push the quality slider to ‘maximum’. Set the frame rate you want, with us it’s 25 frames, select progressive and leave the audio settings as they are, uncompressed, 48KHz. I have saved these settings as a user template, that’s up to you.
When you make this QuickTime 320 x 240 you will find it is way larger than the original DV file would have been at 720 x 480 had you rendered that out. No worries, you can ditch this big QT file afterwards. The thing is that this QuickTime .MOV file will make a very clean .FLV file once converted in Swish 2. In both programs you can select a range of player skins. The ones in FLV give you additional pause and volume buttons which sadly you don’t get in the Swish player selections. All said and done both programs are a simple three to four step click process to output a file. The final output contains all the assets required plus an HTML file ready to upload to a site. The down side is that neither offer a trial/demo version that people can check out. Good luck!
Chris Young
CYV Productions
Sydney -
Hi Chris,
Thanks so much for your feedback on these programs. I’ve found both to be around the same price. I really like having a pause and volume control on the player so I’ll probably have to go with the FLV.
Thanks again,
Mike Sullivan -
Mike ~
FLV will do the job fine for you. If you got any queries just post ’em!
Chris Young
SydneyPS. The major problem with FLV is the amount of follow up junk mail you will receive from them, be warned!
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Chris,
I was checking out the Swish website today and it shows that Swish Video2 does have the pause and volume controls on some of their players. Plus it only cost $50.00. I thought it was more because I was looking at the SWiSH Max+Studio+Video2 bundle for $160.
https://www.swishzone.com/index.php?area=products&product=videoI also found a 15 day free trial here:
https://www.swishzone.com/index.php?area=products&product=video&tab=downloadsAnyway, I now think I’ll go with Swish.
Thanks so much for all your help,
Mike -
Mike ~
Ah! It’s probably just me. I tend to use the ‘mimimalist’ player settings and it might be these that have minimal buttons. I guess I should go back and do my homework! Wish you success.
Chris Young
CYV Productions
Sydney
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