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Frustrated over getting right format for website
I’m working on a video project for a website. The website designers have been very vague about what format they need and while I’ve worked in television video production for years… producing video for the internet is very new to me.
I was originally converting my video into an mv2 format and was told the files were too big. So I reconverted everything into mp4 files after the designers said they could make that format work. I used the default settings. Now they are telling me they aren’t happy with the quality of the video. I’ve got 260 individual 2-3 minutes video files. When I looked into using the Broadband-High conversion mp4, it took about an hour and a half to convert just one file. I also tried the Streaming-Medium conversion which took about 35 minutes. Both of these did produce better quality, but it will take me weeks to get all of the files converted.
Any ideas on a quicker way to get better quality? Or do I need to upgrade my hard drive in order to get faster conversion rates.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
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Use Compressor, not FCP for this work. This gives you a LOT more flexbility in the quality.
Start with a Quicktime 7 Download 300kbps setting and work from there. 2-3 minutes should only take 5 minutes or less to do this.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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Walter,
Thank you so much for responding to my question. Excuse me for my ignorance, but I’m not sure how to do what you are suggesting. When I export my video out of FCP Using the Compressor it sends me right to a Batch window where there are several mpeg-2 and mpeg-4 choices. When I clicked on mpeg-4 NTSC Source Material (which is the only one which seemed to be what would work for me) it gives me the following options:
mpeg-4 Basic NTSC for modem streaming, mpeg-4 Improved NTSC for CD, Improved for Fast Cable Streaming, Improved Large Progressive and Improved Small Progressive.
It does not give me a Quicktime 7 Download 300kbps setting to use.
How is it that I get there from FCP?
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