Aharon Rabinowitz
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wow, nice find!
Aharon Rabinowitz
Email: arabinowitz (AT) yahoo (DOT) com
All Bets Are Off Productions, Inc.
Creative Cow After Effect Podcast
Internet Killed the Video Star: A Guide to Creating Video for the Web -
Hey man, it
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Cool. There are times where on of those 2 works for me when the other doesn’t. I have often found it’s related to the codec, but you never know what’s going to do it.
I should point out that you need to deinterlace your video. Video for the web should be progressive, not interlaced. Interlacing is for broadcast only.
You can see interlacing in any are of high motion – those jagged lines and distortion at every other line where there is fast motion.
When you captured your video, it captured it with fields (or the video camera filmed with fields). Or it’s possible your footage is progressive and you;re output settings are set to export video with Fields (probably Lower Field First).
I don’t work in FCP, but in you’re export settings, somewhere there will be a setting for rendering (exporting) without fields. Make sure it is set to that, and not Lower Field FIrst (LFF) or Upper Field First (UFF).
Then re-compress.
Oh, yes, it’s possible to deinterlace in squeeze, Flix and other compression programs, but they won’t do as good a job as you’re video editor which will usually have a few different option on how to de-interlace based on the type of footage and/or motion.
Aharon Rabinowitz
Email: arabinowitz (AT) yahoo (DOT) com
All Bets Are Off Productions, Inc.
Creative Cow After Effect Podcast
Internet Killed the Video Star: A Guide to Creating Video for the Web -
Well, I’m glad to hear from you, and that your having fun. Good luck with everything!
Aharon Rabinowitz
Email: arabinowitz (AT) yahoo (DOT) com
All Bets Are Off Productions, Inc.
Creative Cow After Effect Podcast
Internet Killed the Video Star: A Guide to Creating Video for the Web -
Now I’m sorry for the delayed response. I’ve been traveling.
Thanks for the info! I’ll give it a whirl.
Aharon Rabinowitz
Email: arabinowitz (AT) yahoo (DOT) com
All Bets Are Off Productions, Inc.
Creative Cow After Effect Podcast
Internet Killed the Video Star: A Guide to Creating Video for the Web -
I would even go so far as to say some misunderstandings compounded by my not reading carefully.
Understand that I see the animation codec come through all the time because I work in animation – A lot of flat BG’s with 1 or 2 colors of text. Not exciting, I know. That’s what I was referring to when I said that it can come in smaller than sorenson. It is NOT appropriate for filmed video.
Arty – I wasn’t taking your platform or source into account – other than to note that Squeeze couldn’t read it properly. That was completely my fault. I should NOT read these things when on vacation, because my mind is on the beach.
FWIW, Dan, I see that your posts here at the COW have been very helpful, and you are obviously a knowledgeable guy. Your contributions are greatly appreciated.
Again, what applications do you consider akin to episode?
Aharon Rabinowitz
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Wow. I completely missed that. I have to admit I didn’t read that first post carefully – I shouldn’t be looking at this stuff while on vacation. I didn’t give this the attention and focus it deserved.
Since you are using Squeeze, you should be aware of the option for frame rate in there. You may notice the 1:1, 2:1, and 3:1 option. This is there to keep you from making a bad mistake, as the one Dan talks about.
There is/was? a 48Khz audio bug with Squeeze, but I hear varying reports about it from different users. I don’t experience that problem anymore but some do, and I’m not sure why.
Aharon Rabinowitz
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[Daniel Low] “eriously, how can you consider yourself an authority on the subjects of compression and transcoding if you have such limited experience?”
That’s a very fair question. You know, it’s funny, on the subject of compression, I really don’t. Not after having spent a month and half talking to true experts (explained below). I consider myself knowledgeable on the subject of video for the web, and I stand by that.
I made a DVD on video compression that answers the questions that every video artists should know if they want to put their video on the web. I didn’t make a video that would teach everything there was to know about compression. I’ve never claimed to have done that. It would be a boring as hell 10-DVD set, I think.
And before you ask me: “how can you even make a DVD on video compression for the web if you aren’t an expert?” – I didn’t rely on my own expertise. I spent 8 hours a day, for 6 weeks, on the phone with engineers and developers from Adobe, Apple, Sorenson, Techsmith, On2 and several other companies, and read tech doc after tech doc to make sure I familiarized myself with the task at hand (and one I have to do every day): Teaching video artists to put their material on the web.
After having shown the DVD to said experts for review, they have all told me it’s a good DVD that answers the proposed questions correctly, and presents the material in an entertaining and non-intimidating fashion.
I’m sure there are true experts out there who really understand this stuff at an almost quantum level, but most don’t have the ability to explain it in a way that joe average video guy (like me) can understand.
As a practical user of the product he was having an issue with, I answered Arty’s question, which I do here almost every day. That’s why my head is at the top. Not because I’m claiming to be an “expert.”
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Email: arabinowitz (AT) yahoo (DOT) com
All Bets Are Off Productions, Inc.
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Internet Killed the Video Star: A Guide to Creating Video for the Web -
[Daniel Low] “Arty is working with FCP – a Mac only product, as such I’ve assumed that he’s working on a Mac.”
Like I said – Duh. I was seeing the forest instead of the individual tree there. Sorry.
[Daniel Low] “Obviously working with that uncompressed material in realtime would be much much harder (if at all possible) and any transcoding from it will required much more resource.”
That’s true, but you will lose quality. Video keyframes can end up in the wrong place which means the keyframe is based off what was previously an interim keyframe and now there is major degradation.
[Daniel Low] “Maybe your definition of ‘uncompressed’ is different from mine?”
I actually said: “Make sure to use uncompressed video or a lossless or near lossless codecl – quicktime with animation compression is a great example of that.”
I’ve had animation compressed video be smaller than Sorenson compressed video. It depends on the footage. If you have a lossless or near lossless codec that gets the job done, use it.
[Daniel Low] “Episode is more professional simply because of the range of formats and codecs it supports as well as some very sophisticated and high quality pre-processing, Squeeze doesn’t come close with its preprocessing options.”
I’m assuming you’ve gone into the advanced settings then, and played with those. There are a butt load of pre-processing options that the average user never sees (and shouldn’t, considering most people don’t understand them).
[Daniel Low] “I’ve used pretty well all the transcoding applications out there and Episode is up there with the best.”
Not being mac based, and not having seen the software, I will take your word for it. It does make me think seriously about getting a mac though. When you say up there with the best, what other software do you lump in with that?
Aharon Rabinowitz
Email: arabinowitz (AT) yahoo (DOT) com
All Bets Are Off Productions, Inc.
Creative Cow After Effect Podcast
Internet Killed the Video Star: A Guide to Creating Video for the Web -
duh – the subject says FCP….
Aharon Rabinowitz
Email: arabinowitz (AT) yahoo (DOT) com
All Bets Are Off Productions, Inc.
Creative Cow After Effect Podcast
Internet Killed the Video Star: A Guide to Creating Video for the Web