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Webcasting
I am working on an Avid Adrenaline….
making a video which will be played on the web only.
We cut in Avid and do all the graphics in After Effects and
export to Flip Factory software
to make the MPEG 4.
We keep getting a complaint that it is not high quality.
I would like to hear any and all thoughts on how to make a
better MPEG4 from Avid.
IS Avid the wrong system to use for this?
It also takes so much time importing, mixing down, etc.Thanks!
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2 Replies
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Have you tried exporting an MPEG-4 file directly out of Avid? Select your sequence, File–>Export, then click Options. You should be able to choose MPEG-4, then adjust the video and audio quality, sample rate, bit rate, etc…. It might save you some time and get you the quality you need (I’ve never used it so I can’t testify to the quality, but it’s worth a shot). Test it with a short sequence to get a feel for export times and quality.
Also, you were told it’s not “high quality”. That’s a very subjective thing to say–do you know how high of quality the client is expecting? I’d get specifics on what they didn’t like about it, and then check the Compression Forum here on the Cow–someone there will probably be able to help you with the specifics of how to get the best quality with a managable file size.
Mike.
PS. Here’s a direct link to the compression techniques forum.
https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_view_posts.cgi?forumid=20
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I exported an mpeg-4 straight out of Avid today, and it produced a .mov file (that has Apple mpeg-4 decompressor codec when I got the info within quicktime).
When I tried to change the file extension to .mp4, it produced an unrecognizable file to quicktime.
My hangup is that I just don’t trust an mpeg-4 that is in an .mov extension even though quicktime says it has the mpeg4 codec.
Is there an essential difference between an .mp4 and .mov with mpeg4 codec?
Colin Edelman
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