AVCHD for web

[John Rofrano]

You should try rendering to MPEG4. This will give you the best quality at lower bitrates for the web. I have the Pro version of Vegas so I’m not sure these are in the Movie Studio version but look for the rendering types “Sony AVC” and “MainConcept AVC”. These will have templates like “PSP” and “iPod” that will get you started.

Also the Quicktime 7 format has MPEG-4 Video but it’s an older implementation and may not give as good results as the Sony or MainConcept types.

~jr

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[Jeff Pimentel]

John,

I do have the “MainConcept AVC” and “Sony AVC” templates with my version of Sony Vegas.

Does it matter which one I render to? In my project propeties how should I set up my project? Right now I have manually setup my project to have an aspect ratio that is proportionate to 16:9, but when I choose MainConcept AVC or Sony AVC the aspect ratio is 720×480 and not proportionate to 16:9. How should I deal with that?

The other part of this is getting my .mp4 file encoded for my website. I have both Flash Professional CS3 and Dreamweaver CS3. If I use Flash Pro CS3 I drag an instance of the FLVPlayback onto the stage and match my stage aspect ratio to my video aspect ratio. I then select the source of my video to be the .mp4 file I rendered in Sony Vegas. When you go to select the source it will not show .mp4 files so I was told I have to type the filename.mp4 in to the source field. I then go to my “Publish Settings” and set my file name for my .swf file and click “Publish”. I also hit CTRL+Enter and export my flash video.

I now have my .mp4 file, .swf video file, and .swf skin file, which is what I understand is needed to upload via FTP to my web host.

In dreamweaver my question is do I then insert “Flash” as opposed to “Flash Video”, which would require a .flv file? I don’t have a .flv file only a .swf for my video…is that the way it is supposed to be? I am having major problems after I get done in Flash CS3 and try to get the flash video in Dreamweaver and uploaded to my host. When I try it all I seem to get is the player skin and in the video position bar I get a green and white stripe patter flickering like it is trying to find a video or something, but all I get is a blank white screen.

I know this is a very long post, but I have posted many times with n luck of figuring out the best way to go from .mp4 out of vegas to a functioning high quality video on my webpage. I would greatly appreciate your help or a great tutorial that spells all this out.

Thanks in advance.

[Enrique Orozco]

…if you have Flash and Dreamweaver CS3 I would better render in Vegas to AVI (uncompressed, progressive, best quality) and use the flash encoder (from CS3) to get an FLV video… you can tweak the settings on the encoder (fps, size, audio quality) to obtain very good quality to use on either flash or dreamweaver site ….

good luck

Enrique Orozco R.
iDEA DigitalVideoStudio

[Jeff Pimentel]

When I render to .avi as you described the video seems to play very slowly, but the audio plays normal. Very strange

Any idea why this is happening?

I would also really like to figure out how to use .mp4’s since that is the new direction for HD it seems. It can’t be that hard to do, but it has been quite a chore for me.

Thanks

[John Rofrano]

Jeff, I have no experience with Flash or Dreamweaver so I can’t help you there. You can change the resolution of the render to be anything you want. I would start with MainConcept AVC and change the frame size to custom and manually change it to whatever you need. 853×480 is NTSC Widescreen using square pixels (i.e., PAR 1.000)

~jr

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[Greg Mitchell]

.wmv has bandwidth settings under “custom” button, override video tab “Mode” and use Bit Rate tab so you can control by bandwidth.

.mp4 main concept codec also has some of the best quality for very, very low bandwidth demands but you won’t get High Def out of it.