FCPX Share Specs

[Bill Davis]

[Lawrence Richards] ” Does anyone know off hand what the various specs are for the various Share options, i.e. kbps, size, codec, etc?”

There are bunches of presets – and if they don’t meet your needs, it’s just $49 to add Compressor for finer control.

Of note, however, is that the entire Apple encoding system is nearly entirely centered around technology that Apple either owns outright or has clear licenses for – so there’s a lot of H-264 love – but few other capabilities without 3rd party parsers.

When I need to export to other formats, I just export a master from X, then run it through Episode Encoder – it’s what I use for encoding to WMV, FLASH, TV broadcast or odd stuff like RYARC distribution systems for public display in facilities.

That way Telestream keeps track of the licensing and all I have to do is pay them once. It’s easier than trying to keep up with multiple encoder revs from multiple companies.

FWIW.

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[Bret Williams]

Flip4Mac for a 10th the price, and Adobe Media Encoder is a great way to go as well, if you already have it from an Adobe bundle.

The sharing in X is decent. I have the compressor for it, but haven’t set up my prefs yet. For clients, I’ve found the best setting is the share via email, 960×540. It warns that it’ll be too big to mail, but it encodes it quickly and I just drag it from the email to dropbox.

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[Jerry Hofmann]

I think Episode, or Squeeze from Sorenson blows away Compressor’s quality in a heartbeat. Same settings used in Compressor vs either of these other apps will result in a better looking file from Episode or Squeeze, and they encode at least 2 times faster than compressor will.

Jerry

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[Bret Williams]

Side note: just the other day I ran a 2.5min 480p24 pro res file through the old compressor with a quckcluster on my iMac to create a mpeg2. It took 58 secs which I thought was pretty good. Then I ran it through the NEW compressor that goes with FCP X, which doesn’t apparently use the clusters. However, the time blew me away. 8 seconds.

8 seconds to compress a 2.5 min Mpeg 2 file is pretty good! This was using it outright. Not through FCP X. Haven’t tested that yet. I use AE to scale my files to SD before compression. Immensely better results (and faster) than letting compressor scale it.