Andrew Ford
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I alter my compressions settings based on the content I am compressing at that moment. To compare compression against some other video doesn’t tell you too much…. it’s what’s the best settings for your particular video to look it’s best and be within proper file size. I have some friends that produce video games for the big companies and they’re always disappointed at how they have to cut out visual elements and do less in order to reach a proper file size for their “share” of the game. That being said, I’ve never compressed anything for a video game. But, I do believe that even though gaming systems today can take a lot of different file types, it still seems that FMV is very popular. FMV files can use something like 16 different compression methods to get, for example, a full motion cutscene for a video game down to size. BINK brought a new color-format to the game, and from what I understand, has much better compression than the older methods so it continues to be popular.
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I’m going to assume to don’t have a regular computer and software (such as Snapz on the Mac) or Epiphan VGA2USB LR to capture the video on…
But, VideoPix will capture unlimited video frames, but not exaclty do what you want.When I last checked into the status of video capture on iPad about 2 months ago, that was all I found. Maybe something has changed, but my bet is Apple doesn’t want you doing this and/or only wants their own engineers to develop a solution.
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FYI, a 50GB Blu-ray really only holds about 46.61GB of data.
When I burn a Blu-ray data disc for archiving video, I use a program that can burn data Blu-rays, like Toast 10 Titanium which has a Blu-ray data plugin. I have never tried to make a Blu-ray the way you are trying, but my guess is your OS/Finder is only thinking of DVDs when you click burn.
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Yes, everything I was talking about was a client that doesn’t want to wrap the h.264. This file will not play on a WIndows machine with WMP without any additional help.
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Yes, I agree with you. That is the method I use and it works almost everywhere.
But, above I was talking about a “standalone” h.264 file, as in one without a wrapper. He says the client doesn’t want an .flv, so you’re left with giving him the .mp4 unwrapped (which has playability issues for out of the box Windows machines) or a .wmv (which should be the way to go in this particular case).
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You also had this same problem using Compresser’s Blu-ray settings. It seemed that Encore, at the time, didn’t like anyone else’s compression. Calls to Adobe seemed to hint at this, although that was a while ago.
Anyway, why are you doing Blu-ray in .mpeg2. You should be using h.264. Mpeg2 is only an option in Encore to support the very first, and now archaic, players. h.264 is where its at!
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All good info above.
h.264 is my top quality compression choice… however an h.264 mp4 to an average Windows person as a standalone file can have issues playing if they don’t have QT installed. A .wmv can be played on any platform (even on a Mac with a free WMP download w/o Flip4Mac). It also has the benefit of being playable on a Blackberry.———————————————
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It is preferable to have both dimensions be divisible by 16 if possible. You can read many articles on why this is, although in some cases tough to tell the quality difference, esp. on a small phone screen. Anyway, 16:9 video 512×288 h.264 is a good option we’ve been using for iPhones and iPod Touch. We also use the same file for the web, which obviously loads quicker than the next step up… 768×432. If for some reason you don’t want to use sizes divisible by 16, the next step is to go your usual divisible by 8 ratios like 640×360.
We use different steps/setups for the Classic iPods, which many people still keep because they had a larger capacity.
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I also use Verbatim 25GB BD-R and BD-RE. Not one problem. For 50GB, I use Sony. Have played this discs on several different Blu-ray players. For most projects, I’m burning from Encore on a Mac using the LaCie d2 burner.
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Try lowering the bitrate a bit and make sure audio is .ac3 instead of .aif or something else.
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