Andrew Saliga
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I’ve been very happy with BlueHost. I wasn’t a fan of GoDaddy and have horror stories from GloBat. I despise GloBat.
BlueHost is good for personal use, here at work we use MediaTemple and they’re amazing as well.
-Andrew Saliga
Steelehouse Productions
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True about “relatively simple.”
I have a bit more than a foundational knowledge of HTML/CSS, and that’s how the content is currently managed. A new version of a video is created and uploaded to the server and the HTML file is either created or edited to reflect that new file.
The ideal, and likely non-existent, scenario would be to allow any editor here to upload a rough of a video and have the page for that client reflect this automatically. Since I’m the one who manages a lot of our web content the process of encoding and delivering roughs to clients tends to bottleneck.
Even if I’m not the only one editing the HTML, it’s just not practical to do this every time a new version is created when you have multiple projects going from various clients.
What CMS systems would you recommend? Is this something I could embed in a company branded page that is unique to a particular client?
-Andrew Saliga
Steelehouse Productions
http://www.steelehouse.com (undergoing a much-needed redesign)
http://www.vimeo.com/steelehouse -
Worth knowing Chris. Thanks for the link Daniel.
-Andrew Saliga
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Like Craig said, your data rate is too high. DVDs can handle a max of 9.80 Mbit/s total for the audio and video content on the disc. I’ve had issues with DVDSP not accepting .m2vs that were even within this spec.
You obviously want to be able to have the highest quality video possible, but you also don’t want to deal with cheaper players not being able to play a disc. I’m not sure how much of an issue this is anymore, but I’ve heard of people having problems.
So, short answer use a preset, aka lower the data rate.
-Andrew Saliga
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Scratch that. Just when I check and double check before I post I find the solution after I explain the issue.
Well if anyone else has to deal with this, in Compresser (with the Flip4Mac plugin) after you select “QuickTime Export Components” in the file format section you then just select “AVI” instead of “Windows Media” in the “Ecoder Type” section. The under options set the compression type to none.
-Andrew Saliga
Steelehouse Productions
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Thanks you for this. I really geek out about compression.
I don’t have too many good links, but I would recommend a book.
Real World Video Compression by Andy Beach. It’s the most current book I’ve found (May 2008). I doesn’t get too technical, but is a great guide for anyone wanting to build foundational knowledge.
-Andrew Saliga
Steelehouse Productions
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Brian,
That is an odd issue. I tried to replicate the results you are describing when playing a clip in QT, but was also unable to do so. That would be a new one to me. Not saying it doesn’t exist though, I’ve had far stranger issues – we all have.
-Andrew Saliga
Steelehouse Productions
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Yes, using QuickLook. Sorry for the lack of clarification.
-Andrew Saliga
Steelehouse Productions
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Unfortunately the answer is no. You must use NTSC hardware to record NTSC, and PAL hardware to record in the PAL format. I’d be surprised if the NTSC deck would receive any signal.
In my situation I took my tape to a local dubbing and duplication service. I paid around $65 for converting 11 minutes of NTSC BetaSP footage and laying it to another Beta in PAL.
-Andrew Saliga
Steelehouse Productions
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Nice. Thanks for the advice Chris.
-Andrew Saliga
Steelehouse Productions
http://www.steelehouse.com