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Compressing to a mpeg,wmv,mpg,avi
Hey I’m trying to compress some videos for my website into a mpeg, wmv, mpg or avi. Most of them are only a couple minutes and has to be below 30mb. I have FCP, Avid, Compressor, QuickTime Pro and a couple other tools, but the biggest dimensions Compressor will put a mpeg into is 320×240. I’m looking for 480×360. Whenever I convert the movie into a 480×360 avi the quality is lackluster. Any suggestions on ways for me to export it into a mpeg, wmv, mpg or avi at high quality? I figure I can do Flip4Mac but I don’t want to spend $99 for something I don’t anticipate on using very often. Any advice for a young starving filmmaker? Thanks.
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[Greg Schoenbaechler] “Whenever I convert the movie into a 480×360 avi the quality is lackluster”
AVI what? AVI is just a container and is outdated and unsupported. What AVI codec are you targeting?
[Greg Schoenbaechler] “Any suggestions on ways for me to export it into a mpeg, wmv, mpg or avi at high quality? I figure I can do Flip4Mac but I don’t want to spend $99 for something I don’t anticipate on using very often.”
mpg and MPEG are the same thing: MPEG 1 or 2. If you want to do wmv on a Mac, you need flip4mac or bootcamp into windows and use Windows Media Encoder.
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[Greg Schoenbaechler] “Whenever I convert the movie into a 480×360 avi the quality is lackluster”
AVI what? AVI is just a container and is outdated and unsupported. What AVI codec are you targeting?
1. Whenever I export it as an avi in cinepack compression the quality is sketchy and if I convert it in QT Pro as DV/DVCPro NTSC of course it kicks it to 720×480.
[Greg Schoenbaechler] “Any suggestions on ways for me to export it into a mpeg, wmv, mpg or avi at high quality? I figure I can do Flip4Mac but I don’t want to spend $99 for something I don’t anticipate on using very often.”mpg and MPEG are the same thing: MPEG 1 or 2. If you want to do wmv on a Mac, you need flip4mac or bootcamp into windows and use Windows Media Encoder.
2. Lol I thought the mpeg/mpg thing was weird too. Thanks what my website said so just going verbatim. Looked into it a little more and I’m fine without having to flip it to a wmv but do need to get an mpeg 1 of 2 or good looking avi. Any are fine but I’m just not sure how to go about it.
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[Greg Schoenbaechler] “1. Whenever I export it as an avi in cinepack compression the quality is sketchy and if I convert it in QT Pro as DV/DVCPro NTSC of course it kicks it to 720×480.”
Cinepak is one of the oldest codecs known to mankind it in use many many years before the internet was around for most people.
Bottom line, don’t use it. Ever.
[Greg Schoenbaechler] “but do need to get an mpeg 1 of 2 or good looking avi”
Still way too wide a goal post. There’s a huge difference between MPEG-1 and MPEG-2. What EXACTLY do you need to deliver and what is it going to be used for?
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“There’s no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance.”
Steve Ballmer To USA Today: 30 April 2007 -
Still way too wide a goal post. There’s a huge difference between MPEG-1 and MPEG-2. What EXACTLY do you need to deliver and what is it going to be used for?
It’s being used as my reel for a website I created. So just over a minute long and I need it to be under 30 mb with good quality. That help?
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You do NOT want to deliver MPEG-2 from any website.
When you say ’30 mb’, do you mean Megabit or MegaByte? there’s a factor of 8x difference between the two. (MegaByte is use for file sizes, Megabit is used for data transfer)
Anyhow I’d use for either MPEG-4 or H.264. with either of those it would be difficult to get anywhere near 30 MegaByte for 1 minute’s worth.
Have a look at this calculator:
https://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/apps/flv_bitrate_calculator/
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“There’s no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance.”
Steve Ballmer To USA Today: 30 April 2007 -
I mean 30 mega bytes.
Anyhow I’d use for either MPEG-4 or H.264. with either of those it would be difficult to get anywhere near 30 MegaByte for 1 minute’s worth.
You see that’s the problem. It will not allow me to upload mpeg-4s. If I was able to the problem would have been solved long ago. FCP and Avid don’t export to mpeg1s so do you have a suggesting in that case?
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