Daniel Low
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Manzanita is one of the better ones out there, usually you’ll find muxing as part of a transcoding system rather than as a standalone application or solution, certainly in the software world.
You’ve obviously used Google to look for other solutions, one of the popular free alternatives is provided by ffmpeg
There are all sorts of other options, it just depends on workflow, budget and resource.
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“Is that the length in .avi time? ”
No, in meters.
I’m kidding! Sorry.
I don’t use vegas but it must give you a timecode readout somewhere pretty obvious!
If not, open the avi in a media player and it’ll tell you somewhere in the interface.
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Quicktime player is not as good on Windows as it is on Mac, that said it shouldn’t be THAT much worse than on the Mac.
Personally I use VLC on both Mac and Windows, it’s better than any of the players you mention.
It might be wise of you to encode to WMV/VC-1 as well as H.264.
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Carbon Coder is one of my favorite encoders.
Are you using the Quicktime H.264 target or the Mainconcept based target?
What frame size is your output?
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You need to know the length of your program rather than the size.
https://www.videohelp.com/calc.htm
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“So if you have movie.mov change it to movie.mov.flv or movie.flv. “
The facts::
https://theflashblog.com/?p=748
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There are more Flash 8 (VP6) enabled computers out there than Flash 9 (H.264). Standard MPEG-4 is not as high quality as VP6. Confusing as H.264 can also be MP4.
It’s very late here – look them up on Wiki… 😉
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Too many keyframes usually hurt quality, it’s too much to go into here but you should let the codec decide when to insert keyframes, with you forcing them every 5-10 seconds depending.
the higher the datarate the longer it will take to download, most computers should be able to play it back, it’s not like you are streaming it.
H.264 does not automatically deinterlace, in compressor you have a number of ways to deinterlace, the one you chose is the lowest quality. Use frame controls for the best results.
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Stick with Flash for now
Did you apply a deinterlace filter in Squeeze, if not you need to
Try a frame size of 512×288
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Ok, the frame size of your source is 4:3 (It’s a DV Frame size), is the onscreen talent stuff shot widescreen?
The problem is probably that you’ve got square pixel graphics mixed up with non-square pixel DV material all exported to PhotoJPEG which is square pixel.
Do the people in the video look normally shaped?
If it’s not widescreen then try resizing the clip to 640×480 when you encode it, if its still pixelated or blocky, try 480×360.
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