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Editing for the internet….
Hi folks, most of the Final Cut educational materials that I’ve seen assume that you’ll be editing exclusively for TV or DVD. For someone who is editing only for the internet….are there any preference or project settings that one should “adjust” for editing exclusively for the internet?
I’m a bit confused about the workflow for internet output. When I color correct & color grade a small clip – it looks very different by the time I get to compressing it out for the net. The color is different then what I was seeing on my timeline…and the contrast & gamma are different as well. I’m wondering if I should be setting up my prefs or project settings differently to ensure consistent color from the editing process through compressing it out for the internet. It just doesn’t make sense that I spend all this time tweaking out the color only to have it look very differently by the time I work it through the process and get it web ready.
Thanks for your time!
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Hi Dean,
There are some basics rules:
– Computers use Square Pixels; Whatever your footage/workflow, you must end that in this kind of pixels.
– Computers uses Progressive scan, so if you use interlaced material, need de-intelace it. Good de-interlacing is fundamental.
If you are using Interlaced material and putting graphics, add your graphics once all the stuff is de-interlaced. Don’t try to de-interlace the graphics afterward.
– Movie aspect: When you want a clip 16×9 or 4×3 to display with the proper aspect, you need to keep these 16×9 or 4×3 proportions. You use the formula W (n x 16) x H (n x 9), where n is the number that you want.
A critical point in the web video making is the downsizing: use a good application to do it.
Dean, many people makes video for the web and quite often, they edit a big moie (SD or HD) and send to Compressor to get a H264 ready for the web.
You may do it like that, but I would suggest you an step by step method.
Normally I try to export first a full size (up to to the footage I use) and high quality master in Prores or 10b Uncompress (If you do it step by step, is important that you don’t add ore compression).
From that master y make another QT high quality master with the size for the web and de-interlaced (now I film only progressive).
Then you only need a good transcoding to H264 or whatever your choice.
The point is that you don’t go to the next step if you are not fully satisfied with what you got.
The next step will get it worst, never best.
I hope this helps you.
Cheers,
rafael
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