Render Format & Compressor ?

[John Fishback]

When exporting it’s usually best to export a QuickTime Using Current Settings. Then use that in Compressor. In the past, animation codec was used since it had an alpha channel. It’s now a fairly old codec. ProRes would serve you better – higher quality and smaller file size. But, getting back to your deliverable, it appears they are asking for a file they can use directly on their site. I think an FLV as described would look best, but you can make an H.264 movie in Compressor at their data rate with a 16×9 size of 720×360 or 4×3 at 720×480. Then simply change the extension of the file from .mov to .flv.

John

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[Rafael Amador]

[thomas mcmurry] “Input Formats: (in order of preference): MPEG-2, Windows Media Video, FLV (On2 VP6 or Spark codecs). MPEG-4; Quick Time is not preferred (videos perform poorly in our category page player).”
– MPEG-2: You can do it in Compressor. Probably they want a Transport or Program Stream.
– WMV: You need Flip4Mac in your computer.
– FLV (On2 VP6 or Spark codecs): You need a Flash compressor. or, better, fallow John advice about H264.
rafael

http://www.nagavideo.com

[Thomas Mcmurry]

Wow. Thanks. Good tips.

I didn’t realize I can just change “.mov” to “flv” and have it work. I’ll give it a go. Thanks