George Socka
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You need to figure out why your PPro wont import QT. Best suggestion is to download latest QT from Apple, because all versions of PPro import and export QT. Then, use your animation with alpha QT right on the timeline.
Never use gif.
If you cant get QT to work, export from Photoshop/Image Ready as a sequence of Photoshop files , by themselves, in one new folder. The transparency is preserved, and you import the whole sequence as one – click the little checkmark on the bottom of the import.
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Youtube HD requires 1280×720 unless I have overlooked something.
4mbps is a bit more than I use because it takes too long to upload. I have gotten great 1280×720 results at 3 mbps CBR. And I have up-ressed widescreen DV within the Media encoder itself to 1280×720. Audio 128 k, even 96 for a talking head with some music intro only. Again, to keep the upload down. Youtube re-encodes eveything again anyway.
I like to keep everything in Premiere because it elminates the quality loss and additional steps required to add something like Squeeze into the mix. Plus I dont want to spend the money. On the other hand, I have had 15 layer projects that took too long to ensode, and exported them first as DV avi files, and then created a new project to encode to h264. FWIW and applogies if boring you, latest using this recipe, is at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMo4ugKF8Qo
The intro uses titler text and a logo graphic ( bottom left) over a digitaljuice background, but the graphic is just a transparent photoshop image placed on the timeline. Never found a use for importing a logo into the titler. Most of the art items are photos converted to photoshop, with PPro lens flares thrown in for good measure. I think they look pretty clean. The carving at 0:39 was keyed using Ultra
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I have been exporting FLV out of CS3 for 2 years now, since I upgraded from ppro 1.0. Its right there in the dropdown at the top of AME where it says Adobe Flash Video. Get it? FLV?
If you are using 720×480 DV source, then you of course know that it is really just 640×480 (NTSC) with a .09 pixel aspect ratio. Flash is square pixels, so when 720×480 becomes square pixels, it is only 640. Plash plays on computers, which are all square pixels unless you have a badly set up monitor.
If you needed to convert your 720×480 DV to 720 square pixels you would need to create a custom project setting not using DV. Try QT, whatever. But round objects will become oval. Which some people think is weird.
Hope that pointing this out was not THAT rude, but whatever.
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AFAIK the burning program built into XP does not finalize the DVD, so that you can record more onto it. Great if it is going to be used on another computer. Some DVD players will play the thing without it being finalized ( I admit that after many years of doing this I still do not know exactly what happens at the physical file level when a disk is finalized) And why some devices finalize in seconds and others take 20 minutes.
The client’s DVD Recorder knows about finalized versus not finalized and is thrown for a look expecting its own version of an open project. I have seen the same thing if you move an open DVD project from one brand of recorder to another
I have never found any way to force XP to finalize.
Thus the suggestion to buy Nero of any of the Sonic DVD burning programs. $50 at best buy.
Or use DVD+RW media which does not need finalizing, but older players, and again recorders that do not do RW ( don’t have the RW logo) will choke.
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but many mail servers wont accept a 3 mb attachment, and may more wont accept wmv attachments at all. May I suggest sticking it on a server and just sendung a link?
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mpge2 dvd says it all. Otherwise, encore just has to transcode it, causing further loss, and a huge waste of time. And it you have multiplexed audio on export from PPro, then encore just has to demux it and re-encode it again.
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How do you defrag a 500 gb drive? a 1.5 Tb drive. I tried to defrag a fairly full 500 gb SATA drive in XP on a quad core Dell and after running all night, it was still not finished. Someone suggested just buying a new drive and copying the files to it, then format the first drive. Not sure how long it takes to copy 500 gb sata, but has to be faster than defrag.
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plug in a DV ( assuming DV project) thing – camera, recorder, pyro, whatever. plug its video out to whatever you are recording into. No scan converter.
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More likely Build | DVD Folder. Much better than build direct to DVD. You can easily make multiple copies, make some now and some more later, recover from burner issues without re-rendering the whole project, burn on multiple burners. Anything that will burn a data DVD, including built in Windows DVD burning will work. All my Dells seem to come with Sonic so that is what I use.
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jwplayer is free on teh web, but I think it phones home. Maybe someone can confirm that.
Orgewise it is 5 mouseclicks in Dreamveaver to generate a custom player with flvplayback or media playback
George Socka
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