editing for the web

[Ron Lindeboom]

[Ed] “I would never *not* color-correct, even for “just the web”.”

You might not, Ed, and that is likely due to your audience and the focus of your company, etc., but for many, handling every job as if it were destined for broadcast is going to be a major drain on resources and an inefficient use of time.

I tend to be a pragmatist but hey, that’s just me. ;o)

Best regards,

Ron Lindeboom

[Ed Dooley]

Can’t argue with that Ron. Every budget dictates how far you can/should go with a project.
Ed

[Ron Lindeboom] “[Ed] “I would never *not* color-correct, even for “just the web”.”

You might not, Ed, and that is likely due to your audience and the focus of your company, etc., but for many, handling every job as if it were destined for broadcast is going to be a major drain on resources and an inefficient use of time.

I tend to be a pragmatist but hey, that’s just me. ;o)”

[Ed Dooley]

With Compressor 2’s H264 option you get the usual audio options that were available in
Cleaner, IMA, Mace, QDesign Music, Quallcom PureVoice. Try any of them for the web,
depending on the audio content.
You *can* compress the video as H264 and the audio as MPEG4 in Compressor and try to mux the files.
I haven’t done that, but I’m assuming (out of ignorance) that you could mux the H264
video with the MPEG4 audio. Maybe, perhaps, possibly. 🙂
Ed

[sanjchal] “What audio setting should I apply in Compressor for the web?

In Cleaner, I used MPEG-4. However, this isn’t an option in Compressor as I now want to start encoding using H264.

By applying AAC audio settings (Stereo, 48.000Khz) my video doesn’t play when uploaded onto the website, whereas previously when I was encoding to Sorenson Video 3 I had no problems.”

[Ben Cruz]

I have been using compressor to export files with H264 for the web.
For audio I have been using Linear PCM and have never had problems.
Don’t know if that’s the best option but it seems to work.

Best
Ben

[Ed Dooley]

An uncompressed AIFF file (PCM) could give you a larger audio file than your video. I would rather
put the extra bandwidth into higher quality video.
My 2 cents,
Ed

[Ben Cruz] “I have been using compressor to export files with H264 for the web.
For audio I have been using Linear PCM and have never had problems.
Don’t know if that’s the best option but it seems to work.”

[Neil Ryan]

[sanjchal] “Quicktime 7 is what we have running”

Will the people viewing this/these files have QuickTime7?
Our experience is that you have to assume PC users won’t have QT7 if any QT at all, making H264 files unreadable.
We publish on the Web using Flash files or WMVs, for universality.

Depends what your market is.