[Andy Taplin]

Thanks Charles

So I think you’re saying dont blend the deinterlace in Cleaner but use one field or the other and use adaptive?

I’ve always blended the deinterlacing in Cleaner becuse it sounded like it would create a smoother image? Certainly for MPEG-1 it caused no problems and looked very good.

6.5 has the same deinterlace options as 6: use each field or blend and adaptive or not.

Thanks for your help.

Andy

[Andy Taplin]

Thanks Charles

My designer much prefers Flash but we’ll look at your suggestion for importing into director.

Andy

[Andy Taplin]

Many Thanks Floh

I am using QT7 on the PC as well as Mac. When I try to open a M100 QT I just get the colapsed QT player (with greyed our buttons) as if opening an audio file.

Cinemacraft (MPEG encoder) works fine though.

Andy

[Andy Taplin]

Thanks Charles

It’s a real shame about Flash video not working tht well for large size CD-ROM as the interface design is better in Flash and easy to re-purpose for the web.

Andy

[Andy Taplin]

Hi Charles

The jerkiness is like a stuttering but it’s irregular and shows up most on pans. It’s mothing to do with not being deinterlaced. I always deinterlace computer based video for obvious reasons. When you say ‘proper deinterlacing’ what do you mean by this? In Cleaner for example I use Blend and Adaptive which produces good results for MPEG-1 and QT.

I should say that I work in PAL and it may be that encoding NTSC source material looks better with Popwire?

Andy

[Andy Taplin]

Thanks Craig

If you let me have your ftp details I’ll send you a short sample clip and the source.

Regards

Andy Taplin

taplin@peninsulafilms.com

[Andy Taplin]

It’s a shame about the jery playback because flvs integrate nicely into Flash interfaces.

Maybe Adobe can sort this out now they own Macromedia?

Andy

[Andy Taplin]

Thanks

I’m using FLVs in a Flash CD-ROM so it’s not a bandwith issue. I’m aiming for 1000KB so that the video will good with no pixellation. It’s 16:9 and it’s jerky even at 512×288 which is as small as I can go.

If I can get smooth MPEG-1, WMV, QT at this size and data rate why not FLV. Maybe it’s just an inferior technology?

Andy

[Andy Taplin]

I’ve had this also and no one seems to be able to provide a solution. The Popwire guys are helpful in responding but just can’t solve the problem. All the other WMV encoders on the mac are jerky too!

In fact I’m a bit dissapointed with the encoding options on the Mac generally. I now use a PC and get really smooth WMVs using Procoder express which on a 3GHZ PC is more than twice as fast as a G4 dual 1.25GHZ

I also use cinemacraft for MPEG-2 which is faster than real time and better than any other software encoder I’ve seen – expensive but worth every penny.

[Andy Taplin]

Thanks Kieran

I’ll try booting form the CD as you suggest.

The drives mounted OK but were completely blank, apart from the internal boot drive that was OK.

I’m pretty sure now that it’s an issue with Intego Personal BackUp trying to repair permissions – even they recommend using Disk Utility – others say don’t repair permissions unless you really need to.

Regards

Andy