Daniel Low
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What platform are you on (Mac or PC)?
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AFAIK the box will only handle upto 1280×720 with MPEG-4. If you want 1920×1080 you’ll have to use MPEG-2 at around 28Mb/s. Obviously the box will upscale 720p to 1080p if you want it to.
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Ok, I tried your settings and.. wow! It works!
Phew, at least my job is safe, for a while! 😉
You do not need to encode the alpha channel, so uncheck the box.
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How do you plan on using the Pixelmagic box, i.e. delivering to it over a network, or via an attached hard drive etc..
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Your intuition is correct, re-compress as few times as possible. If you have no other transcoding application to hand go straight out of FCP to < 100MB.
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Which Google did you use!?
https://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=avi+to+flash&btnG=Search&meta=
Gives you as the 1st result:
https://www.jakeludington.com/ask_jake/20051008_how_to_convert_avi_to_flash.html -
You’re getting a bit confused.
All your clips in FCP are Quicktime movies.
When you capture something from your DV camera, it’s captured as a Quicktime movie.
Apple and FCP are based on Quicktime.
FCP is like a super-duper version of the Quicktime player.
You can open all your ‘FCP’ clips directly in Quicktime player.
Exporting from FCP is basically the same as exporting from the Quicktime player.It’s worth looking at the Help menu in Quicktime player and FCP to get a grasp of these basics.
Check out Wiki and use Google. But best of all read the FCP manuals!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuickTime
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In most cases you’ll need to transcode to a delivery format; MJPEG & H.264 are the usual choices for Mac users although some upload VP6 or lower quality.
You’ll need to work within the contraints of Youtube – the file must be no larger than 100MB and no longer than 10 minutes. There are ways to get it to accept very high quality VP6 content as well as a bunch of other hacks at forum.doom9.org and forum.Videohelp.com
Here’s a good start: https://forum.videohelp.com/topic336882.html
As to your second question, I’m not sure what you mean by “downloading from Final cut or downloading from an already made Quicktime”
Do you mean exporting from Final Cut/Quicktime?
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VP6 replaced Spark quite a while back. As you’ve seen VP6 is higher quality and most people encoding to Flash are using it.
That said, YouTube still uses Spark but is moving towards the new Flash standard of H.264.Bottom line is use VP6 until we all move to H.264.
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The problem with AVI is that it’s just a container for audio and video. It’s not always possible to know exactly what is contained as such it’s not always cross platform.
The advantage of Quicktime Animation is that it’s a known, it’s 4:4:4, it cross platform and any setup with Quicktime installed will be able to work with the file.
Animation is only lossless when set to 100%