[David Bark]

Thanks, and no offense taken. Sometimes I can’t see the trees because that whole forest thing is in the way!

[David Bark]

Thanks Chris.

I actually played around in Media Encoder a bit, and when I used the H264 export format, the lowest I could get the estimated size was 135MB, when I achieved 39 with FLV. That said, I’ll have to see what pops out on the other end when I use H264. I’m thinking, though, that that isn’t even going to be a Flash file.

I definitely appreciate the heads up on the buffer idea. Never even heard of it. I’ve been dropping the files into Dreamweaver (which has pretty much allowed me to focus on learning other software and avoiding code), but I guess it’s time to dig into HTML a little bit.

Playing around with Export Setting while I’m writing this, and while I seem to have figured out how to get the H264 Format at level 2.2 to drop the size, I’ll have to go ahead and encode to see what comes out. (And I’ll have to figure out how to drop QT into Dreamweaver.) Thanks again!

[David Bark]

Thanks Michael.

It looks like both the menu and the track were set to 16:9 letterbox in the DVDSP Inspector.

I’ll definitely check your posts for info on quality.

In the Compressor Inspector, when I choose Best Quality, 2 Pass – those settings are locked down, grayed out, can’t touch ’em. (But the aspect ratio is set to 16:9)

Anyway, I’m gonna try this again, and see what happens.

[David Bark]

But appreciated, nonetheless. Thank you both!

[David Bark]

OK…I’m an idiot. It was a 3 minute timeline! Sorry.

I still wonder why, when text or a solid spans the 3 minute timeline it stops previewing at 42 seconds? Sure, I can’t ever imagine the need to animate something that simple over such a long period of time, but what if I did? Is there a “stop previewing at 42 seconds” in the prefs that I should know about?

By the way, when I created the REAL 3 second comp, everything’s good! Then I went back and created another 3 minute comp – this time on purpose – and animating a solid from one corner to the next over one-minute still stopped previewing after 42 seconds.