[Andrew Hunt]

Hey Ian,

You don’t have to embed anything. All those settings show is how to compress your films using one of those applications. Wiredrive is much more sophisticated than vimeo or youtube becuase it’s set up specifically for the Commercials world. It’s designed so a rep can take a director or production company’s collection of commercials and create a client specific reel (eg: all their car commercials) and showcase it to the client on the wiredrive site.

So Wiredrive puts the onus of doing all the compression and encoding on you but helps you by giving you those settings.

I don’t have my work hosted on Wiredrive but I use their settings and host the films on my own site, on vimeo, on exposureroom and so on.

I suggest you try the settings yourself and judge the results.

A

Andrew Hunt
Writer/Director
New York
http://www.andrewhunt.me

[Andrew Hunt]

Thanks for your reply Michael,

I turned the auto rendering off after reading one of your earlier posts on the subject, and I can’t tell for sure, but it may have helped. However I still get the same problem where it sometimes shows me all four angles and allows me to cut and other times only shows me the selected angle in the viewer window.

I’ve also been getting that error message about dropped frames where it suggests you get a faster computer or drives or memory etc. But none of those things are the issue as I have an 8 core with 16 GB RAM and the rushes are on a raid 0 drive playing through eSata.

Very strange and hard to troubleshoot errors that are not consistent. I have made sure that “play multiclip” is selected as you suggest, so I’ll keep reading around and see if anyone else has had this problem. So far I can only assume it’s a bug.

Cheers again for taking the time to reply,

Andrew

Andrew Hunt
Writer/Director
New York
http://www.andrewhunt.me

[Andrew Hunt]

Hey Ian,

I agree that H.264 is the way to go. I’ve been using the compression settngs from a website called “Wiredrive” (no affiliation). They are a hosting site for Commercials production companies and directors and it’s in their interest for the material to look good on their site so they release their own settings for compressing material for the web.

They include settings for using Compressor and Mpeg Streamclip (a great free tool if you haven’t already got it). I don’t know if they deal with Sorenson.

Here’s the link: https://www.wiredrive.com/customercare/video-encoding-for-wiredrive/

It includes overviews on compressing for the web and then you’ll see halfway down the page a section with step by step settings for Compressor, Mpeg Streamclip and Handbrake.

I found the settings excellent and easily tweakable once you get under the hood.

Good luck.

Andrew Hunt
Writer/Director
New York
http://www.andrewhunt.me