Daniel Low
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I’m not sure I understand your question.
Flash video can either be encoded with Sorenson Spark (lowest quality) ON2VP6 (higher quality) or H.264 (highest quality)
So ideally you want to do directly from DV to Flash H.264 using an encoder that offers great deinterlacing and scaling.
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You’re not really helping me to help you. What sort of computers will be playing this video back?
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Alex,
We sort of covered this a bit before in your last post but…. – Without knowing the spec of the computers playing this stuff back it’s difficult to say what to use, if it’s only 11 minutes long you have the luxury of using a high data rate and frame size and it’ll still fit on a 4.7GB DVD (Not sure where ’24gig’ comes from?)
You also seem to have rather confused project settings:
1280×720
16bit depth
NTSC D!/DV Anamorphic 1.20
29.97
frame rate 29.97The above settings don’t make sense.
What standard/resolution is the ‘actual video’? – is it that you are using NTSC 4:3 video in a 1280×720 Motion project, or……?
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How are you playing this back – from a DVD player or from a PC?
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I’m sorry, that was a typo, I meant H.264, not H.263.
However it seems compressor isn’t up to the task, like I said I don;t use it anymore so I can;t verify this article:
https://www.dallasfcpug.org/2008/06/02/h264-anyone/You may find this useful:
https://www.apple.com/quicktime/tutorials/h264.htmland this
https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/compressor_h-264_movies_fcp.html__________________________________________________________________
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PhotoJPEG at 75% quality is 4:2:2, at 100% is 4:4:4 or Apple ProRes 422 (Apple have just released it for Windows)
https://library.creativecow.net/articles/wilson_tim/ProRes01.php
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I don’t use compressor anymore but I think what you are seeing is the difference between MPEG-4 pt2 and MPEG-4 pt10 which is also called H.264.
Have a good read through Chapter 16 of the compressor manual (on page 211) which will give you a better understand ing of the differences.
Basically you want to end up with an MP4 file that uses the H.263 codec not the MPEG-4 pt2 codec.
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You can deliver AVI files out of Final Cut using Quicktime Conversion. Or straight out of Quicktime Pro but you’re fairly limited in terms of what codecs you can use.
That said, there’s no reason why people using windows can’t view Quicktime files or .mp4. If your windows viewers are asking for Divx files (which use the .avi extension) you’ll need to install the Divx codecs – https://www.divx.com/divx/mac/
You could also go down the PhotoJPEG route as outlined by Rich here:
https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/20/858366
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IMHO wait for Snow Leopard, or at the very least for more in-depth details about it before speculating on new processors. For all we know 10.6 could breathe a whole new life on your existing box.
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Not so, strictly speaking MPEG-4 is a standards based format, (based on the Quicktime file format) of which DivX, Xvid and 3vix are not part of, only based upon.
In fact Divx is now deemed a container format in its own right although it was initially a hack of Microsofts MPEG-4v3, which is unrelated to MPEG-4 – Microsoft simply arrogantly assumed that their development work with the v2 & v3 codecs would become the MPEG-4 standard. (Not taking anything away from all the real work MS have done for MPEG-4 standards)
Google “divx mp4” and you’ll get a list of software to convert divx to MPEG-4. That aside you generally see divx and xvid with an AVI extension, not .mp4.
Although MP4 is based on the Quicktime file format and therefore can be a container for other ‘objects’ and atoms, the .mov wrapper can contain not only video and audio tracks but also text, sprite, chapter and a mixture of video and audio codecs in the same track, this is not possible with MP4. As such I use the differentiator of Mov being a wrapper as well as a format.
Anyway – all this is highly pedantic!
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