Ed Dooley
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In the past year I’ve had my HD110 (from the U.S.) to Mexico, France, Egypt, Greece, and Costa Rica. I always carry it on board, just as I did even when I had my big Beta rig. I have the smallest PortaBrace case that’s recommended for it, and it fits under the seat or in the overheads (except on the very smallest regional jets). There is no issue physically, the issues are: Making sure when you go to a 3rd world country that you reister the camera when you enter the country (Carnet or other document), and the new ATA lithium battery regulations (do a search of forums here on the Cow for plenty of links and info on that).
I leave the lens on the camera, but I take off the mic off, as well as the IDX battery pack (unclips easily) to which my wireless receiver is also attached.
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Well, one of us is missing the point. He asked about exporting for Flash, you said there is no Flash codec in FCP, I said that’s wrong. Get over it. You like ON2, so do I, H.264 is over his head, not my problem.
Ed[David Roth Weiss] “our information about h.264 simply wasn’t responsive to Brad’s initial question, and we ended up with twelve posts about h.264, when my response to him provided the information he needed. “
[David Roth Weiss] “No Flash codecs are included with FCP.”
[Brad Jenkins] “My question is: to obtain the highest quality Flash video, what is the best way to export/render from the FCP timeline to the final high-quality Flash video?
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Dave,
The whole reason I said your staement was wrong is because you *weren’t* accurate. Why should we let misinformation stand if the whole purpose is to help people? Someone wanted to know about Flash codecs in FCP and you said there are no Flash codecs in FCP. Well, H.264 *is* a Flash codec. Saying that I hijacked the thread to correct wrong information, is just… well… wrong. 🙂 Sorry if you were offended.
As for talking about about H.264 in a Flash codecs thread, after someone says ON2VP6, is just as legitimate as talking about ON2. It didn’t take anything away from ON2, I think it’s a great codec (and so is that other Flash codec, H.264)
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I vote for hallucination. 🙂
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I am too, but mostly for the newest player to penetrate a little further. One thing I’m looking forwrad to in using Flash H.264s instead of QT, is creating vector graphics to overlay the video (titles, etc.). They look so good on the networks’ web casts.
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What are you talking about? You posted it here, it’s only 6 threads below this one. And you got a bunch of replies.
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I wonder why you’re the only person I’ve heard with this problem? I’m not saying you *are* the only one, just that Adobe incorporated H.264 in their Flash player even before they did in thei Media player and lots of people seem to be doing it just fine. The one issue that was (and may still be) a problem, is that Adobe Flash player won’t start playing an H.264 until the complete video is downloaded if the moov atom is at the end of the file, it needs to be at the head. Some encoders put it at the end, so it has to be moved. There are plenty of Adobe and other support pages on how to do that. Maybe that’s what you’re experiencing, the file is downloading (and not starting to play) and you’re not waiting for it to download first (not that you should, the move of the moov fixes it).
Ed[walter biscardi] “Adobe’s own Flash Player won’t play H.264 yet, we even changed the file format to mp4 and f4v and it still didn’t work. Adobe Media Player works just fine, but not Flash Player.
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As Walter said, there’s a long thread if you just scrolled down a little bit (it’s only a day or so old fer’ Crikey sakes!).
As for David’s comment below, not true. H.264 is now a Flash codec, just like ON2VP6 is. You might argue that it’s not ready for prime-time because of needing Flash 9 to play it, or that some folks aren’t able to play it with certain Flash players yet. But it’s an official Adobe-supported Flash codec now.
Ed[David Roth Weiss] “No Flash codecs are included with FCP. To encode QTs to Flash you have several options, but the best are the ON2 Flix products that use the VP6 codec. The Flix products to choose from are Flix Pro, a standalone Flash encoder, and Flix Exporter which is a plugin that adds the codec to FCP, QT Pro, Compressor, and Motion. “
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We’re not going with a Flash server either. I did read your first response, and although I was being somewhat facetious about the high quality video that networks compress to Flash, I’m serious about the H.264 to Flash question. I’m surprised your web person couldn’t find any info on it, there’s been plenty from Apple, Adobe, and many others. The simple answer is, create an H.264, change the file from.mov to .f4v and it’s a basic .flv type file that will play as progreesive download when called up by a .swf. It ain’t rocket surgery. 🙂 Adobe’s site has a tutorial (and they suggest changing the H.264 to a .flv instead of .f4v, but other Adobe resources and some tutorials suggest the .f4v for good reason).
https://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer/articles/hd_video_flash_player.html[walter biscardi] “I’m not going to spend any money on a Flash Media Server service at this time as QT is working fine for us. My web designer has seen the same postings about h.264 supported by Flash 9 but can’t find anyone who’s actually been able to make this work or any sort of means to make this work. She has gone ahead and created an HTML page for our video samples for time being.”
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Export it with Current Settings, then crop all 4 sides. Be careful to take an even number off top and bottom though, to avoid switching fields. I usually do 4 off each side.
Ed[Ian Smith] “My procedure thus far:
Export the video at NTSCDV 640 X 480 (has been said to maintain the correct aspect ratio for web, as opposed to television. If for television then I leave it at 720 X 480)
Then, when encoding to an FLV I crop the edges off, and then to keep the entire dimensions the exact same I then lose 5 off top and bottom leaving me with the dimensions 627 X 470.Am I a complete failure to our industry? Naturally, I just want to do it the Right way! : )
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