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iphone output
I shot a project in HD and the client now wants it for an iphone and an iphone touch. Its 16:9 video obviously.
Compressor has a few setting ready to go for these devices which I used but the client keeps asking for 480×320 which he claims is what the iphone wants and that the 480×270 version I’m seninghim is zooming in to fill the full screen…
what am I or he doing wrong?
thanks
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Your file should be fine – he may need to double-tap the video to get it to zoom back out. Mine seems to default to whatever I had it set last time.
I have movies at 480×208, 480×256, 480×272 and more and they all play fine either way, full-frame or enlarged to fill the screen, and I can switch back and forth at will. I don’t know that there’s any way you could incorrectly encode the file to force the phone to display maximized, other than somehow stretching the video to fit an out-of-aspect size and therefore having a movie that plays back distorted on your Mac monitor.
I suppose to make him happy you could find a way to pad the image… so instead of a 16×9 movie playing with unused space at the top and bottom, you’d include black bands in the video source – your file would be larger for it but at least it’d completely fill the frame and be impossible to us the iphone zoom feature.
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640×360 works too.
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Usually I export a 640×360 for 16:9 files or a smaller version at 426×237.
Compressor only gives a few options and it asks you 4:3 or 16:9.
480×270(local) and 320×180(Qvga)
Which is a side question…What’s the difference?
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You can make your own iPhone setting @ 640×360.
I do this as it can double as a client review for the web, and I take it home on my phone to watch it at night.
Works well.
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do you use Compressor or QT conversion to do this and do you make it for Iphone Local or I phone qvga?
thanks!
Chris Baldwin
Shoulder High Productions
Media of the World; For the World!
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Compressor.
Make a new quicktime preset, chose h.264 for apple devices, then choose VGA and 16:9. It’s really easy.
Jeremy
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I use the 640×480 iPhone option for one of my clients and he loves it. I just use the default iPhone preset in Compressor.
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