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  advice on compressing hour long “episode” for HD web streaming

  Posted by Solomon Blair on June 6, 2013 at 3:34 am

  hey there! I’m looking for anyone out there that can shed some light on this topic!

  I’m currently putting together a web show that averages out to about an hour long per episode. my process is pretty much this…
  1. footage edited with adobe premiere with the preset HDV 1920×1080 at 29.97 fps….after edit is complete I kick out the highest resolution Quicktime MOV file. (12GB file roughly)
  (note: Ive tried to do AVI to keep video uncompressed, but I have had issues with AVI’s this long and large not playing properly or being accepted into after affects)

  2. I then take that to After Effects to do any color correcting and add in all motion graphics etc.

  3. From there I render out another highest quality Quicktime MOV

  I have been rendering out 2 formats that I use for web/mobile devices. F4V for web, and MP4 for mobile device.

  from final quicktime from After Effects, I compress that into 2 final formats F4V and MP4 using adobe Media Encoder
  

  my question is:

  Is there anyone who has had experience working with these type of formats in the professional market that could tell me if there is a better way to do this? I am looking to get high quality output in comparison to something like HULU. it seems that a web video stream like HULU is splitting up episodes/shows into separate parts, and the video player is calling on the separate files to load in between commercial ads. As i don’t have the option to separate into separate “parts,” I am looking for the best procedure to get web HD quality at 1280×720, and get highest playback results at 1 hour long video.

  thanks very much to anyone with some insight to this!

  cheers

  Solomon Blair replied 12 years, 11 months ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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