Brad Elliott
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We use Natress Standards Conversion
https://www.nattress.com/Products/standardsconversion/standardsconversion.htm
It is a plug-in that costs about $100. We weren’t as happy with Compressor’s conversion.
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It is not a recommended workflow to store your capture scratch media on your boot drive. Running your system with less then 15% free space on your boot drive is also not recommended. That doesn’t mean it won’t work but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t expect performance issues or worse. -
Is there any reason you don’t use Compressor’s H264 preset that just copies size, fps, etc?
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I have fixed this by doing a safe boot(restart while holding down shift until the apple screen) Login window will say safe boot above users.
Disk Utility/repair permissions on boot drive/restart
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Try exporting a reference QT of your final sequence(whatever settings you edited in)to your desktop and then use Compressor.
The inspector should also give you a pretty good idea what your file size will be. You can change your video rate and see how it effects the overall size.
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H264 is a more than acceptable option for Vimeo.
To my knowledge they prefer H264. Don’t take my word for it- read the specs.Remember that they should accept 1280×720. You can play with the video data rate in compressor to make your H264 look as good as possible while still coming in under the 500MB limit. I have seen outstanding 1280×720 H264s that weren’t over 120MB. Make sure you are referencing the Vimeo specs as you are setting up your render in Compressor.
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I don’t know how you captured the web footage but H264 is a delivery format and is generally not recommended for editing.
What size was the web video to begin with?
How did you acquire it?
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Compressor’s default DVD settings are a great place to start and can be adjusted or not whether you know a lot or just a little.
At times DSP’s compressor has given me better results than any tweaked Compressor setting but it hasn’t been updated in years so I only use it when I’m in a jam. DSP will create an aif file of your audio and I would recommend creating an AC3 since the quality is excellent and it can be almost 1/5 or less of the original aif.
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HD-DVD was declared dead about 2 years ago.
DSP cannot do HD video right now. You can either convert to SD via Compressor or make a Blu-Ray DVD with Toast or Adobe Encore.
If your show is less than 20 minutes you can make a red laser Blu-Ray via Compressor 3.05.
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One way: Works best if you have VO
1) Cut the audio in the center/slide 2nd half with end of music to the end of the video(you may have to adjust because of tails and music hits).
2) Extend 1st 1/2 end forward and 2nd 1/2 front until they match. If you have VO you should be able to hide the music cut under it because the audio will be softer under VO.
If you don’t have VO follow step 1 and play with where the cuts match up.
The difficulty of this will be determined by the particular song you are trying to extend or shorten. Music usually sounds better if you use the original music’s in and out vs. making your own with cuts or dissolves. -
If they are running PP on a PC you need to check the files on a similar PC and/or the PC in question. Just because it plays on your Mac doesn’t mean it will work on their PC or in PP. There are a myriad of reasons for this.
PP before the latest version uses the first version of windows media player. It can be found from the run window/type mplay32 and test your file there. Just because it plays in the latest version of Windows Media doesn’t guarantee PB in PP.
I would choose wmv over MPG-2. MPG-2 is limited to 720×480. MPG-1 is smaller. You can stretch these in PP but why? 864×486, 960×540, 1280×720 will all look great.
AVIs with the TSCC codec will also look great but there are number of caveats to get them created from the Mac world. Flip4Mac and Compressor can do an OK job but Episode is the best option on the Mac side. I prefer TMPG on windows.
The good news is that the 2010 beta version of PP will play H264 files and all of the codec and version issues will become mute.