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Quality of Flash Video
I recently cut two pieces – 31 and 16 minute edits in CS3. I output these to AVI files. In the transfer process with an external programme, the two files were converted to Flash for online streaming file size. We used, independently, different programmes for flash conversion, but in both cases there were the following outcomes:
The quality of the video, while crisp, had a darker look to it and had lost the “brightness and lightness” of colour present in the original video.
As I am increasingly getting requests for streaming video in flash format I want to see how to retain the colour range of the original AVI video in future.
Any collective experience very appreciated.
Thanks so much.
Bill in Toronto
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6 Replies
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Hi Bill,
Are you encoding as Flv or H.264? These days, H.264 is quickly becoming ubiquitous for online video.
What you are describing is likely a gamma conversion issue.
What software are you using to convert to Flash?
As an alternative, try exporting to Quicktime Animation and use that same software to convert again, is the result the same?
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
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Vince: try exporting to Quicktime Animation and use that same software to convert again to flv flash
I did just that: exporting to QT Animation in h264, then converted that to flv with AVS converter 6. (Because CS3 doesn’t export to FLV?)
But the video had a dark look to it. Not terrible, terrible, but didn’t have the sparkle it had in the original…
Bill
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CS3 surely supports FLV.
Might want to consider that as you are mastering to a particular codec, that it may indeed require an overall color grade or compensation to maintain the look you like due to the “lossy” nature of things in some compression.
Cut together some sample elements in a PPro timeline.
Nest that timeline.
Add some color correction to “overcompensate” for what you think you losing.Export and pass this thru your compression stage.
See if you are more pleased with the final result.
Refine this setting until you get a general setup you like. then save this as presets and use on a nested version of your general sequence.
Hope this helps or gives food for thought.
Alex
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CS3 surely supports FLV.
I’ve looked at the general settings for export and I have no reference to FLV file type. I do have Quicktime which I can set to h.264, but there is no direct export to FLV I can find in CS3.
Thanks,
Bill in Toronto -
What exact export method are you using from the file Export submenu?
Tell me what the choices are you see.
Alex
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Re: Quality of Flash Video
by Alex Udell on Aug 1, 2010 at 2:14:03 pmWhat exact export method are you using from the file Export submenu?
Tell me what the choices are you see.
Alex
I was a bit under the weather and haven’t replies that quickly, so I hope this email will find you.
The first submenu:
Movie, Frame, Audio, Export to Tape or Encore or EDL or Media EncoderFrom Movie: AVI and Animation, and Quicktime among others
From Media Encoder: I found FLV out put here, but the menu among other options (include QT) distinguishes between Flash, and treats h.264 as a separate category. How can FLV be encoded according to h.264 standards?
Any reading you could suggest as well?
Bill in Toronto
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