Ed Dooley
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I haven’t done anything that small in years. All I have to offer is, if the client wants something to
stream at 56k, I hope you’re actually making it 48k or so, because most 56k systems are actually 53k (at their best),
and when you take into account the inefficiencies and overhead, you’re really talking much less than that.
Now you’ve got an even worse looking low-resolution video (with lousy audio). My humble suggestion is to educate the client.
If they still really have customers on dial-up, then they shouldn’t be trying to stream video to them. It will
look like crap no mattter what you do. A well designed web presentation without video will impress their
clients so much more. If they really need video, then do it as a download, not streaming.
As for your encode question, are you perhaps not adding the size of the audio rate to the video rate to get the total encode rate,
thereby giving you 100kbs rather than 56k?
Sorry, I know most of this isn’t what you asked, but it *is* the answer (according to me anyway).
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Steve,
Didn’t mean to jump on you with the “search the posts”. It’s a pet peeve of mine here that most people
don’t do a search before asking the same questions over and over again. There are a number of threads
related to your question, although no one of them may answer all parts of your question. If you do a RAID5
or RAID3 search in all the high end work forums, you’re bound to get more info (along with the answers
you’ve already gotten here). RAID5 seems to be the preferred option for video, and doesn’t penalize you too much
on space. Definitely go at least 4 drives, in my humble opinion.
Here’s a thread that may help with some of your question:
https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_read_post.cgi?forumid=98&postid=857070
Ed[steve997] “Ed,
I did a search numerous times and could not really find the exact info that I was asking for. If you find the links please post send them to me.. much appreciated.” -
Look to the left of the page for Search Posts and do a search first. There have been hundreds of posts about
SATA drives and HD work. Come back and ask any questions not answered many times before.
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Yes I can, do a search of the archived posts. There are tons of posts about it. UC helps only if you’re planning on adding lots of graphics, which benefit
from UC. But do a search of posts (did I say there are tons of posts about it?).
Ed[Catama Productions] “I am about to begin post on a film I am shooting with the panasonic dvx100. I am shooting 24p (NOT 24pAdvanced), 16×9, onto MiniDV tape, and I am posting with FCP. My question is this…
If I capture in an uncompressed Codec via an Aurora RGB Component, will I get any better quality on the final output than if I captured DV Codec via Firewire. My thinking is that since the footage is (I believe) already compressed into a DV codec on tape, capturing with higher end hardware and a much less compressed codec will do nothing to improve the quality of my footage.
At my workplace, we often will capture this same sort of footage (24p from the panasonic) using and Uncompressed Codec if we are planning on broadcast quality output (TV spots, etc.) But it occured to me recently that the footage might be the same using a standard DV compression, since that what it is on the source tape. The amount of disk space this would save is huge, and I am very curious about it from a technical standpoint anyway.
Can anyone help m”
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Very cool project! I do work for Middlebury College, traveling around the world for their Study Abroad Program.
I was kayaking at the Maritime Museum today (well, Basin Harbor, close enough!). Although I live up in the mountains
now, my son lives close to the museum, as does my sweetie.
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Preview doesn’t allow you to change format in SaveAs. Use Export and you’ll have tons of format options (well, 12 anyway).
Ed[Steve Weslak] “I had a similar problem a few jobs ago. It might be because the files were saved as CMYK in Photoshop. You can open the photos in Preview and File-Save As will allow you to change the format of the stills. I changed them to TIFF files, and re-imported them into FCP. This method worked for me..”
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Sorry, no. But I *did* kayak in Lake Champlain this morning, honest!
I also have a friend with a plane, maybe I could do a *real* fly through for you. 🙂
Ed[Scott] “I will be taking my first stab at a new type of project.
It consists of a (CGI) fly though of Lake Champlain in Vermont.
It is done in a program that only exports .tiffs.
It is estimated there will be 40,000 .tiffs all numbered sequentially.Has anyone done anything like this before?
Sorry so vauge its all the info I have right now.
Have a G5 with all the bells and whistles.”
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As an Irish citizen, I run into that “everything turns green” problem all the time. 🙂
Have you opened them in another program, like Photoshop, to see if they do it, or have you
only opened them in FCP? If they open OK in other programs, save them as some other format from there.
Ed[filmeditorjoe] “Hi. I’m working w/ a magazine on a promo video and they sent me a cd of jpegs, some of which turned out to be all greeen when I actually plug them into the timeline. I have a hunch this has something to do with way they saved the files on their end. What should I tell them, so I can get the problem corrected? Thanks so much. JOE”
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Yes.
Ed[edmond4] “So it sounds like the only reason I have “Windows Media” listed as an option is because of Flip Mac? I do have it installed, just a free version, as I’ve never paid for it.”
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Do you have Flip4mac installed? Their trial version only allows a short compression length.
Ed