[Craig Seeman]

Quicktime 7 Player (and Frameworks) are deprecated.

Please test in Telestream Switch 2.0.1 and Quicktime X.
Please explain exactly what your settings are in the Resize Filter (be complete).
What version of Episode are you using (current is version 7).
Also please do describe intended use of the encoded file.

[Craig Seeman]

I’d hope a post house would describe problems in technical terms.
Maybe they’re referring to sync but if they are, they should describe it as that.
If you have to guess then you better ask someone who has the tech understand to explain. You should not be put into the position of guessing.

[Craig Seeman]

.m4v files are generally similar to .mp4 files.

Fundmental simple math is File Size is Data Rate times Duration. I can’t make it simpler than that.
After all Data Rate is usually described in Some Bits Per Second. Less bits or fewer seconds is smaller file.

[Craig Seeman]

I watch the demise of both the chain and indy video rental stores in my own neighborhood.
Netflix and the like win for convenience which does speak to the movie “consumer” priorities.

On line rental has never been good at discerning individual tastes for recommendations. That may well be deliberate, since the technology really is there. Why be detailed when the library of available movies is severely limited.

I can’t help but think that in many ways, this hurts the indy filmmakers even more. Hard to find cult movies, good festival circuit films that don’t get picked up for distribution, shorts that used to find there way onto compilations discs because they were liked by the store staff, never found on Netflix.

Indy video stores had selections colored by the interests of their owners and staffs so there was alway some hope they’d champion a less popular niche. That just doesn’t happen in our Netflix driven streaming market.

With the new Apple Music streaming service, they’ve created space for artists to upload and market their own music as I understand it. If they were to ever do something like that for filmmakers I think it would be possible to compete against Netflix. One might find the blockbusters but also the fans of niches can be introduced to those creations and their creators.

Alas all I’d need would be “someone” to respond to, “I like noir science fictions from eastern Europe” and get an “Ah, you mean titles like these…”

[Craig Seeman]

Thanks for those suggestions. Cantemo seems very opaque about their pricing. Granted they focus on partners and modules but even then there’s no obvious base price for the modules for a small facility or one person shop.

[Craig Seeman]

Thanks but that seems focused on Libraries. I need to search assets such as camera masters directly and have proxies that I can play.. To my knowledge KeyFlow Pro and CatDV are the only ones that are local software based but maybe there are others.

KeyFlow Pro for example
https://www.keyflowpro.com

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmMVDiVLn04

[Craig Seeman]

[Noah Kadner] “Or Compound Clips, though to my eyes this is clunky because you lose direct visibility to the original media with a Compound Clip on a Project Timeline.”

You can break them apart once in the new project.
I find having the Compound Clips gives me something to go back to, to edit individually.

It’s kind of like how I edited “segments” to a show in legacy. I’d edit the separate segments if I needed to make changes within the segment and use the master project to edit whatever was needed between the segments.

[Craig Seeman]

Just thinking out loud but might one make empty compound clips one could edit into and then you could combine them in a Project.

Given that he’s already created project would going into each and Select All and making Compound Clips result in having each project as a Compound Clip which can then be dropped into a new Project.

It would be neat feature if you could just select the Project in the event and make it a Compound Clip.

[Craig Seeman]

Generally it’s a great troubleshooting assistant
How variable is a CBR encode since that can cause issue where CBR is required.
How wide are the data rate swings in a VBR encode in case the peaks might be causing issues.
Is it hitting or under/over shooting minimum and maximum bit rate encoder settings
How do the key frames impact the P and the B frames so one might see if anything is bit starved in a trouble area.
When using Forced and Natural Key frames, where the Natural key frames are actually occurring.
Comparing the same settings in two encoders to see if how much the results actually differ.

[Craig Seeman]

You did not enter file size. You can have bit rate without duration and file size. That was in my first post.