Compressing video for playback on web

[Shane Ross]

Look into COMPRESSOR. It has a variety of web compression presets. H.264 would be your best bet (QT 7 Streaming options).

Shane

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[Brad Keppler]

Shane,

Thanks a billion for the really speedy response.
Of course, I’m going to have to show my true newbie colors here when it comes to Compressor but…

I’ve tried the H.264 thing after reading it was the way to go. I ended up getting the file size I wanted (it was under 50 megs), but the video came up looking pretty horrible. I use a lot of text to supplement the tutorial, and it was nearly unreadable.

I should have been more specific, and I apologize. I should have asked if someone would be awesome enough to maybe break down the exact settings that one would typically use to get the desired video render. I messed with some of the settings in Compressor when it came to H.264, but I kept getting the same soupy mess.

Again, I reeeeally appreciate the quick response and hate to confound the question further, but do you or anyone else have anymore insight/linkage to something that could just logically beat me over the head with an answer ’till I get it?

Thanks again

[Ken Summerall]

[Brad Keppler] “I’ve tried the H.264 thing after reading it was the way to go. I ended up getting the file size I wanted (it was under 50 megs), but the video came up looking pretty horrible. I use a lot of text to supplement the tutorial, and it was nearly unreadable.”

Brad,

I too have been less than impressed with Compressor’s encoding to h.264. I have switched to using Elgatos Turbo.264 encoder. It is a truly amazing little piece of USB hardware. You plug it in, install a little comtroller, drop in your QT file from FCP, select a preset and let it go. It is much faster than Compressor and has better quality.

You would probably use one of the two iPod presets.

I know, you hate it when someone tells you to go buy something to solve you r issues. I do too, but this little gadget costs about $80 and it is worth much more than that in saved time and headaches. Most of my stuff is DVCProHD and it renders it at about 24-25 frames per second, DV comes in at about 40 fps. Another great thing is that it doesn’t really matter what you plug it into. I get about the same speed on my 2 year old MBP as I do with a 9 month old MacPro.

K

[Shane Ross]

I’ll second that little gadget. But as of yet I don’t see STREAMING presets or it. iPod and Apple TV, iPhone…PSP. Nothing streaming.

But they did just come out with a software update…I’ll have to look.

Shane

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[Richard Harrington]

I agree

My review of it

Richard M. Harrington, PMP

Author: Photoshop for Video, Understanding Adobe Photoshop, and ATS:iWork

[Brad Keppler]

Man, you guys are some kind of speedy.
I greatly appreciate that.
At this point, my client is kinda knockin’ on the proverbial door for the web stuff to be up there, so I’m open to purchasing stuff if need be.
Gonna check out the review for the product–which was also very cool, thanks–and try and get this thing settled.

Thanks again,

-Brad

[Ed Dooley]

And you might want to post your web compression questions next time in the Compression or Web streaming forums because that’s where the compression guys hang out.
Ed

[C david Miller]

I got tired of using Compressor and it’s outcome, I just make a QT file of my work for the web and then use a little application called Visual Hub. It converts to many different formats and the outcome has seemed very good, with many options to choose from.

You can read more about VisualHub at
https://www.techspansion.com/visualhub/

I have an example of it’s output at of mine
https://www.rail-videos.net/video/view.php?id=2300

if you care to preview what it does