Charles Simonson
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If good sound is important, then the lowest I would go is 22KHz 64Kbps. As far as adjusting other parameters to get the size down, obviously the target average bitrate should be your main focus. Next, I would look into converting the framerate from full to half.
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Don’t know if you are on a mac or PC, but on the mac there is an app called mpgtx 1.4b4.
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Just tell your friend to export the final movie to whatever native format he edited it in originally. ie, a DV25 project should be exported as a .dv. If he absolutely wants to convert it to QT, then tell him to use the Motion-JPEG or Uncompressed codec. Unless he was using HDV source material, then you should be good.
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I wouldn’t worry about encoding to AVC just yet. While its quality:size ratio is phenomenal, it is not a good editing codec, and it takes a lot of time to encode. With Photo-JPEG, you are compressing a lot less, and thus end up with a much larger filesize, but this is generally more preferable to users of the stock video market. And, if you encoded directly to Photo-JPEG from a Media 100, there wouldn’t be much of an advantage to using Cleaner, besides some filter controls.
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Well, Sorenson Squeeze’s MPEG4 output shouldn’t look better than its SV3 output, but that is another matter (for MPEG-4, only Compression Master 3’s encoder output approaches SV3 IMO). It sounds like you encoded to MPEG-4 using Advanced profile, but since you can ultimately play the video anyway, maybe that’s not the case. Have you tried hosting the file on the web in a .mov container rather than a .mp4, if that’s what you’re doing?
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With proper Flash scripting, you should be able to adjust the bandwidth and sizes of a FLV video just like you would a WMV with Intellistream controls. As far as size, 21MB is a bit large for 320×240 video; ideally, you wouldn’t go any larger than 12-18MB for 3 minutes.
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I’m assuming the IV50 you speak of is the same as Indeo Video 5, and no, it wasn’t ever ported to Mac OS X. But, some slightly good news, it was ported to OS 9, and if you use Classic and QT 6.0.3, you should be able to parse it (after finding it for download) and convert it with QT Pro. Probably, the best thing to do would be to export it from QT Pro 6.0.3 to Photo-JPEG 100%, and then use the new P-JPEG source to export with Compressor or such in OS X.
If you can’t find the Indeo codec, let me know.
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Yes, if having the maintain aspect ratio button checked is causing issues, then uncheck it. Or vice versa. I imagine your source is anamorphic, and this will cause Squeeze to encode to the incorrect square pixel format sometimes.
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I would contact Popwire to see if they can provide a solution. MBR encoding can be accessed when linking mulitple settings, either in the settings list or batch area. Look in the manual for a how to.
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Interesting… didn’t realize WinRAR could do that.
Anyway, I understood what you were trying to do as backing up you’re finished movie, not the renders and source clips. But, if you’re able to achieve 50% compression without having to mess with the codec, then by all means, use that method.