need QT conversion compression advice

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need QT conversion compression advice

Posted by Roli Rivelino on October 14, 2009 at 9:44 am

After much hair pulling and hand wringing, I’ve discovered that my DVD drive is corrupted, thus I can’t deliver DVD rushes to my client.

So I want to do the next best thing and give him files he can watch on his PC.

Therefore I need the best possible QT conversion for this, I’ve been using H.264s for the web recently and I’m tempted to use this as I know he’ll be able to view it on his PC, but I’d like to find a better one if possible as he won’t be that appreciative of the quality drop.

The rushes were shot in 720p HD and are 2 hours long.

As ever your help and comments are greatly appreciated.

aka Newbie Wan Kenewbie. “I will get over my manualaphobia, one day at a time.”

System
Mac Pro 2.8Gb quad core
8Gb RAM
1x 320Gb 7200 hardrive
1x 1Tb 7200 hardrive
Nvidia Geforce 8800 512mb Graphics card
1x 1Tb external WD ‘My Book’ eSata

Equipment
Panasonic AG-HVX 200
Firestore FS-100

Steve Eisen replied 16 years, 6 months ago 3 Members · 5 Replies
5 Replies

Rafael Amador
October 14, 2009 at 10:05 am

Hi Rob,
Set the Key Frames “Automatic”.
The data rate for p720 with good quality, I start to try from 12 Mbps up.
Rafael

http://www.nagavideo.com
Roli Rivelino
October 14, 2009 at 10:22 am

Hi Rafael,

thanks for your answer, but I’m still a novice, could you be more specific please.

Do you mean go into QT conversion and choose quicktime movie, HD720p?

Sorry I haven’t used many of these conversions yet.

Thanks

aka Newbie Wan Kenewbie. “I will get over my manualaphobia, one day at a time.”

System
Mac Pro 2.8Gb quad core
8Gb RAM
1x 320Gb 7200 hardrive
1x 1Tb 7200 hardrive
Nvidia Geforce 8800 512mb Graphics card
1x 1Tb external WD ‘My Book’ eSata

Equipment
Panasonic AG-HVX 200
Firestore FS-100
Steve Eisen
October 14, 2009 at 11:46 am

You should check out ProxyMill from Imagine Products.

Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Board of Directors
Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group
Roli Rivelino
October 14, 2009 at 1:55 pm

Thanks Steve, is that an alternative to compressor/QT conversion?

aka Newbie Wan Kenewbie. “I will get over my manualaphobia, one day at a time.”

System
Mac Pro 2.8Gb quad core
8Gb RAM
1x 320Gb 7200 hardrive
1x 1Tb 7200 hardrive
Nvidia Geforce 8800 512mb Graphics card
1x 1Tb external WD ‘My Book’ eSata

Equipment
Panasonic AG-HVX 200
Firestore FS-100
Steve Eisen
October 14, 2009 at 2:20 pm

Watch this video
https://www.imagineproducts.com/files/videos/workflow.mov

Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Board of Directors
Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group

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