[Gina Willis]

so what was your settings? do you use VBR? mulit pass or single..?

Thanks ,
Gina

[Gina Willis]

Mark, had a question for you. Why do you use theCBR setting. I recently upgraded to CS4 and am still working through the differences. I’ve noticed a few things, like even though I have a high KBPS rate (1500 + ) i’m still getting crappy looking graphics, (lower thirds, logos) and i’ve tried some things with the max bit rate, min bit rate, and the variable bit rate. I always do mulit- pass and try to make my key frame rate under 10. Nothing is helping.
So, i guess i’m really asking you two questions. Why not VBR and what settings do you use to make a nice flash under 15 mb with graphics that have little to no reduction in quality!!???

thanks,
Gina
you can email me direct at gina@veslex.com

Thanks ,
Gina

[Gina Willis]

Hey Joe, so have you upgraded to CS4? I recently did and have noticed a few significant changes in the interface of Encoder. Also, some changes in the output of the video. I have been playing around with it, trying different settings for FLV. Tried the default settings, and get almost the same as the custom settings I built. I was under the impression that if I increase the KBPS i would get a better, clearer flash. I get a real nice picture quality, but the lower thirds I placed are crummy. looks real pixelated!! You experience this at all?

Thanks ,
Gina

[Gina Willis]

Joe, I hear what your saying, and I can maybe understand, but at the same time it took a 6 minutes piece 4 hours to pass through compressor. Yes, it was heavy with graphics and such, but i thought it was a 3:1 ratio. definitely not the case. anyway, thanks for the answer thus far. I’ve definitely been listening and will pass on the info..

Gina

[Gina Willis]

See, I think they should GET A MAC!!! hahah… anyway, somethings gotta give, we want to have at least a 90% playback rate and while we are, it’s annoying that some people out there can’t see our DVD. I thought perhaps it was because we were going through compressor? But I just make a qt then DVDSP does all the work for me, whereas my co-worker strongly believes you have to use compressor first then put it in DVDSP..

Thanks ,
Gina

[Gina Willis]

usually if they are pc users and the machine is older than a year , they either have to update software or download VLC. While I’m not opposed to them doing this, they really don’t know what they are doing. they are just end users and probably have to go through some IT to be able to download this software. Just wondering if the boss needs to have a separate machine just for encodes.(DVD’s)…
thanks for your input..

Thanks ,
Gina

[Gina Willis]

REading over these post, I still have a question. I have a client that has been capturing video via his DVR— he says it makes a JPG Modified File. My question is, can I pull that format into final cut so that I can edit his video?

Thanks ,
Gina