Graham Bernard
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[Derek Charles] “I’m still confused in how I see users with the same camera, same 1080p and have a significantly lower 1080 file size uploaded, with higher quality playback… bitrates for Vimeo, YouTube etc. “
You’re getting to the point where you’re recognising the complex artistry of rendering. You’ve now introduced another observation that needs to be understood: How can others do this? Prerender preparation needs to be considered. Already John has invited you to create a digital intermediary. Doing this has provided me with many opportunities to make sure my video stream is stable enough to go forward to Render and see how much video noise is present. The freebie s/w BitRate viewer has helped me to understand just where high “noise” areas appear and need further attention. Video noise is a real pain, and can eat up and effect bitrate efficiency. I use the NeatVideo product to smooth out video noise and get my video into a sweet-spot for stable bitrate rendering.
From my own experience, with video and render options that are on the edge or tipping point of size versus quality, there will be no simple, easy-fix for this. It’s good you’re now comparing others quality output. However and until you can directly quizz those that have done the quality you’re seeing, we can only guess. Do recognise that the “Industry” spend millions on developing rendering quality. They employ Render farms and many many hours of offline methods to get great product. Each and every second of capture to Edit are crawled-over to wrangle-in the noise and macro-blocking Monster!
Although my own rendering experience is limited to DVD, MP4, WMP and variations of MOV and digitital intermediaries of Lagarith and SONY MXF, I’m starting to think that you’ve got a combination of initial video noise, grain and the unfortunate effect of the processing of average bitrate of high BitRate. This is now getting into the area of segmented average and constant BitRate preparation.
Interesting thread.
* Grazie
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[Nick Frankiewitz] “I have successfully used the following many times for creating DVDs from HD footage.
Within the “render as” selection queue, choose “MainConcept MPEG-2” and within that dropdown selection queue, choose “DVD Architect NTSC Widescreen video stream.””
Same here, but for PAL WS.
[Nick Frankiewitz] “Click on the “Customize Template” button and Tick the “Two-pass” box and raise your average bitrate up to 9K.”
But Nick, your bitrate has to be a typo? I keep mine under 8mbs.
* Grazie
Video Content Creator and Potter
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[Sergio Diaz] “Any feedback will be great!”
Hi Sergio – Give us the Media Information of the footage. Have you used the Match Media to Project VP15 Feature?
Here’s a freebie where to download MediaInfo:
https://mediaarea.net/en/MediaInfo
* Grazie
Video Content Creator and Potter
PC 7 64-bit 16gb * Intel® Core™i7-2600k Quad Core 3.40GHz * 2GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 560 Ti
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Ken, you really need to open a Support Ticket with NewBlue and get going with a dialogue with them. It would appear you’re into a licensing activation issue that nobody here can assist.
I’ve had a whole mess of NewBlue FXs and Titler great plugs and have, on more than one occasion, needed to make contact NewBlue Support to get activated and get the Red Cross removed.
Here is a link for you : https://newbluefx.zendesk.com/hc/en-us
* Grazie
Video Content Creator and Potter
PC 7 64-bit 16gb * Intel® Core™i7-2600k Quad Core 3.40GHz * 2GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 560 Ti
Cameras: Canon XF300 + PowerShot SX50HS Bridge -
Please do screengrabs of the following:
- What are your project Settings?
- What is your MediaInfo?
- What are you rendering to?
* Grazie
Video Content Creator and Potter
PC 7 64-bit 16gb * Intel® Core™i7-2600k Quad Core 3.40GHz * 2GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 560 Ti
Cameras: Canon XF300 + PowerShot SX50HS Bridge -
[Scott Francis] “Is your version of Mercali from Prodad or MVP 14 purchase?”
Ah right. Yes, I’ve been on their upgrade path ever since I purchased PD from way back.
* Grazie
Video Content Creator and Potter
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[Scott Francis] “I will miss my Mercalli”
Why? I’m running Mercalli in VP15.
Moving from VP14 to 15 has been a revelation.
* Grazie
Video Content Creator and Potter
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More to the point – I don’t understand any of this. I really don’t. And I’m being polite too.
* Grazie
Video Content Creator and Potter
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Why?
* Grazie
Video Content Creator and Potter
PC 7 64-bit 16gb * Intel® Core™i7-2600k Quad Core 3.40GHz * 2GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 560 Ti
Cameras: Canon XF300 + PowerShot SX50HS Bridge -
[Derek Charles] “IF that’s the way to go – for uploading to Facebook/Vimeo – Should I stick with the 10max/4avg ? Will this help with overall playback speed, and helping it “reach HD quicker during playback because the file size is smaller to load?”
You’re asking great additional questions. Maybe others wish to jump in. I hope my feedback has given you the option to explore further and just what the way to publish your videos.
Suffice it to say, we all need to tailor our output to the platform it will be seen on. My Canon can record at 50Mbs. There’s no way I’d expect this to be tolerated by a DVD and a DVD player! But I’m stoked that my XF300 can do this and provide me with a 422 colour space. Getting my worked prepped for a DVD, running at 7.5 MB or even 4MBs MP4 for auditorium presentation works great for me. Are you getting the picture? ????
* Grazie
Video Content Creator and Potter
PC 7 64-bit 16gb * Intel® Core™i7-2600k Quad Core 3.40GHz * 2GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 560 Ti
Cameras: Canon XF300 + PowerShot SX50HS Bridge