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1080i render for web
I have a client who wants his video posted on Youtube and Vimeo. It was shot at 1080i. How should I render for best web playback quality? Any suggested SVP Pro 12 templates? Interlaced or progressive? 1080 or 720? A newbie at web posting, I want to get this right the first time. Also, if I have someone using FCP and he wants to U/L footage to those sites, should I make him an MOV file? If so, what templates should I use for that prep?
Rich Kutnick
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The Internet video sites, youtube, vimeo and smugmug, are always progressive AFAIK.
Give the Sony AVC and/or Mainconcept AVC “Internet” templates a test. These templates should be a good start. They default to 30p so if your interlaced footage is 60i they should be fine.
1080 video streams from these sites are around 7-8Mbps so many people may not be able to stream that but the sites always generate smaller formats for you automatically. 720 is around 3-4Mbps.
Does the FCP person want to edit your output footage? If so then you will want to give them a high bitrate file to preserve video quality. They should be able to read AVC MP4 files. Use Sony AVC or Mainconcept AVC.
If they have a bur in their butt and want Quicktime (MOV) files, then you need Quicktime installed. The free quicktime has limited options for encode formats and does not have AVC. I tend to stick to AVC. I am not sure which would be the best video option in the free Quicktime version.
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I give high bitrate MP4 files to FCP users all the time but I rename them to MOV. No one has ever noticed or complained 🙂
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I use the MainConcept video for internet 1080 option, and under the video tab I always crank up the average and maximum bit rates, as well as enable ‘two-pass’. My footage always comes out looking great, and not too far off the original AVCHD 24 Mbps clips.
Dave
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GREAT all-around advice. I rendered the clips using the MainConcept 1080p Internet template, raising only the average bps to 16 million and selecting 2-pass, and the rendered clips look as close to the originals to me as possible! Our local user group is putting together a demo using members’ clips, and that is my current need to give the editor the best bang for the buck! I also tested and passed along Mike’s trick of renaming files from MP4 to MOV–worked for me, as the MOV file opened immediately in Quicktime. If the MP4 files give the editor a rough time, I hope that he will be able to latch on to this capability. Thanks again for all of your sage advice!!
Rich Kutnick
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So I rendered several 2-3 minute Wedding/Bar-Bat Mitzvah demos (HD videos) that were on my SVP 12 timeline (1920X1080, 60i) to MP4 (1080, 30p), and they look great in VLC Media Player. When I upload them to YouTube, 480p looks good but if I crank up my viewing to 1080p (HD), I see random horizontal bending in the video. This bending is not evidenced for these same clips if uploaded/played on Vimeo or Weebly. Is YouTube possibly creating this visual anomaly because I do not have a paid account with them, or is it something else? I can’t figure it out–any ideas?
Rich Kutnick
VIDEO IMPRESSIONS
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