[Ed Dooley]

And Shane’s speaking from a legal point of view, not a technical one. 🙂
While it’s possible to put one copy on multiple machines (technically) it’s not allowed (legally).
Ed

[Shane Ross] “As long as you remove it from your G4 once you install it on your G5.”

[Ed Dooley]

Do a search. It’s been asked a million times (well, a lot!)
There is at least one tutorial on this here on the COW too.
It’s easy in FCP or AE, without filters.
Ed

[Ed Dooley]

A couple of thoughts:
-Your drive is exposed, it’s not in an enclosure. In the office yes, but in the field?
-Be careful of what drive you choose for bus power. Some drives require too much spin-up power
for bus power.
It might be better to offload a P2 card directly to a large MacBook internal drive and transfer it later
than to rely on bus power in the field.
My 2 cents,
Ed

[Ed Dooley]

ummmmmmmmmmmmmmm 24
ed

[Ed Dooley]

You’re welcome!
Ed

[Ed Dooley]

Do a search in the archives first next time, there are hundreds of posts about this. Here’s one that works
MPEG Streamclip- https://www.squared5.com/
There are a bunch more suggestions in the “search posts” section
Ed

[Ed Dooley]

Not sure how I’m “a bit off on this” David. Nowhere in the original post or my answer was “streaming” mentioned, nor did I suggest
that a 39 MB file would “stream” on “normal DSL”. But I will say it’s true in this post. 🙂
What I suggested was a basic understanding of bandwidth limitations on the server side having
a lot to do with how well a file plays. I also suggested a number of compression scenarios to allow a file to play on various connection
speeds. As for “streaming”, of course files will “stream” without using a special streaming server, *if* you create files in the sizes I suggested.
It’s called progressive download, and a 300kbs file will easily “stream” on a slow 384kb http server. For example, I have a video I’m looking at
right now that’s exactly 7:00 minutes long. It’s compressed as both a WMV and a QT at 384×288 at 710kbs, with a file size in both cases of a
little under 36megs. And it’s streaming online as we speak, on my “normal” DSL connection. As I also mentioned in my post, the typical DSL connection
these days in most of the US is not 384kbs anymore, the rates are much higher. Verizon and my local phone company’s DSL
for “everyone” is 1500kbs (in theory) now, with a real-life rate not far below that. I can “stream” 2 700kbs videos at the same time at that rate.
The same file compressed as a 256×192 300kbs video will “stream” (http progressive DL) on the less-common-these-days 384kbs DSL, with a
file size of 15.5MB.
John, unless you want to pay for a special streaming server, *do not* select the hinted streaming option in the fast start menu for QTs. The first fast start option means
progressive download, so that when enough of your video has downloaded to play all the way through as a stream, it will start playing automatically.
If you create a file in the rates I mentioned (or any rate lower than a viewers data rata) the video will fast start immediately. The hinted stream options are for special streaming servers only.

Ed

[David Roth Weiss] “You and Ed are both a bit off on this… 39mb QT files will not “stream” from your server unless properly prepared for streaming, and they certainly will not just play out over a normal DSL connection, as there is not enough bandwidth. And, no one will sit around and wait for your 39mb file to download. You must either learn to stream QT (not very easy), or switch to Flash or WMV and learn to stream them (both very easy).”

[Ed Dooley]

What do you mean, “the video was too slow”? The size, framerate, and kbs rate should be determined by your host throughput (can it handle
high enough data rate throughput) and your audience’s internet, not yours. You can upload large files to your site even if you have a modem,
it depends on what the person viewing your video has for an internet hookup. Slow DSL in some places is still 384kbs, but in most places it’s at
least 500kbs and more typically at least 784kbs. You don’t say what you’re using to compress the video, but since you mention FCP, I assume
you’re exporting from there. I would compress using either the latest MPEG4 or Sorenson 3 Pro to a 256×192 at 300kbs, or 320×240 at 300-500kbs.
Just a ball park though, without knowing more.
Ed

[avantis] “I hate to admit it, but I’m just now getting around to posting some of my video on my website. In my initial quicktime output test, the video was too slow, and the size of a seven minute file at 180×120 was 39 megs. Any suggestions on best output formats and parameters would be appreciated. I am using an older version of FCP. “

[Ed Dooley]

The end user has to download a tiny little file though, something that IT departments
don’t always allow. Sorry, no answer otherwise to the question.
Ed

[daniel_l] “AFAIK, WMV9 is backwards compatible with player 6.4 or later:

See the bottom of this page:

” target=”_blank”>https://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/forpros/codecs/video.aspx”

[Ed Dooley]

I’m not sure about expediting the export process, but if you have a ton of exported stills that you bring
into Photoshop, you can simply add Actions to them as a batch. You could also crop them as a batch,
scale them, set auto levels, contrast, and color, all kinds of things that you would want to do in Photoshop anyway,
so you might as well deinterlace at the same time.
Ed