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Export h.264 for flash direct from FCP
Hi all,
Been bashing away at this for a while now, but haven’t found any definitive answers yet.
What we want to do is export a tape (~60mins) from FCP into h.264 to be used within a flash player. We’ve managed to get it working(-ish), but have somehow lost the audio…
Quick tip: The flvplayback component of flash really likes filenames to end with ‘.flv’ – not ‘.mov’ or ‘.mp4’.
Small filesize is fairly important to us, but clear audio more so. Our other chief concern is a simple workflow – we don’t want to have to export to an intermediary file format and then convert to a h.264 encoded flv.
Any tips or advice would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Tom
PS As there seem to be a lot of people asking about flash/fcp issues, I’ll compile all the knowledge I’m gathering into a tutorial later on. Any contributors to this thread will be credited accordingly. =)
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4 Replies
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Hi Tom,
Have you changed the audio sample rate?[Tom Wright] “Quick tip: The flvplayback component of flash really likes filenames to end with ‘.flv’ – not ‘.mov’ or ‘.mp4’.”
Hi Tom,
i’m looking as well that the H264.mov can be readed too by Flash Player.
Here somebody sais that works with .m4v:
https://www.jeroenwijering.com/?thread=10143
I havent had the chance to test it.
If you try I will thank you very much to tell me if its works.
Rafael -
Yeah, it’s a really funny one this.
The NetStream method doesn’t care what the files are called (inc. the extension), but the flvplayback component (which ships with adobe cs3 and is often used to play flv files) prefers files to end with ‘.flv’.
The relevant quote:
“All your existing video playback front ends will work as they are. As long as they do not look at the file extension that is, though renaming the files to use the .flv file extension might help your component. The Flash Player itself does not care about file extensions, you can feed it .txt files for all it matters. The Flash Player always looks inside the file to determine what type of file it is.”
I found that renaming my h.264 files from .mov (e.g. quicktime) to .flv was all it took to get them to play. -
Hi Tom,
The problem is that to read those H264.flv files by QT Player you ned to install Perian.
The point is that the clips could be played by both, QT and Flash players.
rafael -
I’m using the JW player https://www.jeroenwijering.com/ to play H.246 movies with the .mov extension.
https://www.leebergermedia.com/corridors_f9b.htmLee Berger
http://www.leebergermedia.com
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