[Craig Seeman]

I see the tiniest bit of blockiness on some of the graphic fade ups. You’re right about action and data rate. I don’t like to go below 500kbps myself unless it’s talking head stuff. I really can’t understand why people go lower. Have you gotten any complaints about slow loads from folks accessing it?

Any reason why you chose Quicktime over Windows Media 9? For sports Quicktime gives the user frame by frame jogging but soooo many folks just want Windows Media.

[Craig Seeman]

Hi bockos,

Those links are Sorenson 3 not Sorenson 3 Pro?

High data rate. Do you think slower DSL would handle it?

[Craig Seeman]

[Ty Ford] “Seems like compression only brings up the noise.”

That’s why whether doing NR before or after normalize, I’d always do it before compression. Give it as little noise to bring. Hope would be that normalize brings up everything and NR then would lose much of the noise too high off the floor. At that point you might have some room on the threshold to keep the noise floor down while compressing.

Unlike the original poster, I rarely run into his situation because, while monitoring, I immediately spot and correct the issue. What I usually bump into is two speakers using a single mic and one whispers while the other bellows. Sometimes you’re not in a situation where you can mic separately. Think of interviewer with hand held mic going back and forth to two people on the street for example.

[Craig Seeman]

Noise Reduction, Normalize, Compress.

Ty, if one goes the above route, any thoughts about doing noise reduction after the normalize instead of before?

[Craig Seeman]

Client wants 100 person marching band for the parade. Asks if you can send them over in a Volkswagen Beetle!

Put them on a DVD. Does he really want your work mashed? Do you look forward to the phone call asking why your animation looks like c**p.

Mash it down and give to him on a CD with a note that if he wants full quality you’re going to have to charge him again for a high quality transfer.

JPEG2000 maybe (not to be confused with standard jpeg).

[Craig Seeman]

MPEG-4V Video
360×240
29.97fps
AAC, Stereo, 44.1 kHz
Data Rate 1085.7 kbits/sec

There’s your settings. That’s a very high data rate he’s using for the frame size.

Go to their website. Play the video. View/View Source – in Safari. Look for the link. Cut and paste it into Quicktime Player – File/Open URL
When movie is loaded into QuickTime player – Window/Show Movie Info
You get the info you need

https://www.sarlasmusic.com/video/media/“name_of_his_video.mov”
if that helps

[Craig Seeman]

Quicktime Sorenson Pro Codec using 2 pass VBR. You either have to buy the Pro codec from Sorenson or buy Sorenson Squeeze which comes with it. The Sorenson “standard” codec won’t look as good. You ain’t going to get that file size/quality from MPEG1 encoding and neither did they.

H.264 would be better but the user would have to have Quicktime 7.

Windows Media 9 would look good to but you’d have to buy Flip4Mac.

[Craig Seeman]

Use the white as a key signal to cut the whole. Blow up the shot a bit so the white is from top to bottom.

[Craig Seeman]

I second Shane.
Gary’s additional info is important too.

There’s a reason why the same transport and guts of a camera can write either DV and HDV to tape (oversimplification, I know) but they ARE the same data rate as far as what’s happening at that point.

I think people should be required to take a technical test before being allowed to shoot and edit! Hmm, Certification! As a former Video Engineer, the misinformation on the web is amazing. At least make it a requirement to read Adam Wilts’ page.

[Craig Seeman]

[Matte] “You can save HUNDREDS of dollars by not buying (and fighting with) wireless gear”

And spend a huge amount of money in legal fees etc. when people trip over that cable. I won’t use a cable when I’m shooting for a reporter in the street. I won’t use a cable when I interviewing someone in a crowded nightclub. I won’t run a cable to the groom when shooting a wedding. I wont use a cable when the subject being interviewed is walking or otherwise involved in an activity. You use a wireless when you have to, when it’s an issue of safety. For many shooters that’s most of the time. I use cables in a sit down interview and that’s it.