[Jason Brown]

WOW…great find! Thanks so much…that will help considerably!

Good luck on your Plural Eyes question. I believe I saw Robbie Carman (he’s a cow leader in Color) demo that software. He may offer some help if you don’t get what you need here.

-Jason

[Jason Brown]

I’ve used everything you mentioned EXCEPT plural eyes with success. The h4n leaves alot to be desired…but I ALWAYS sync my audio and video with a clap board. Did you do that?

FYI, if you are using multiple sources (2 channel)…the h4n treats it as a stereo source and adjusts levels as a stereo track…you can’t adjust ch1 input level independent of ch2. (my biggest disappointment with that device)

I’ve seen Plural Eyes demo’ed and it looks impressive, but nothing beats old fashioned organization 🙂

-Jason

[Jason Brown]

Hey Will,

Todd is right about AME and the SWF comments.

Todd, don’t mean to step on your toes…and please correct me if I’m wrong 🙂 but — if you’re going to work in Flash player 9 you’ll need to do VP6 which I’ve always had problems doing through compressor with the Episode Plug-in. Adobe Media Encoder is a great option for FLV transcodes. However, I’ve always struggled with AME when dealing with non-square Pixel Aspect Ratio’s in files that DIDN’T come from Premier. Although that may not be a concern for you if you are dealing with square pixel…and my experience was a couple versions back with AME.

If you are dealing in Flash 10 and can use the h264 flash codec, I think you’ll find Compressor to work well when compared to the other major transcoding softwares out there: (Episode Pro, Sorenson Squeeze, Adobe Media Encoder)

-Jason

[Jason Brown]

Didn’t mean to repost…sorry! 🙂

[david mayer] “send to compressor gives the same result as
exporting uncompressed and then pulling into compressor
but saves steps, right?”

Yes. I’m just a user, but I believe it is basically like creating a QT reference file…but doing it in a temp area that you never have to deal with interim files.

I use it routinely and love it. Before v7…that function would tie up FCP while it sent the file to compressor. But in v7 it now does it in the background.

Note that you do take a small performance hit while continuing to edit…because the media is being used by 2 applications. But it’s minor IMHO.

What’s great, is that you can send multiple sequences to compressor (and combine them as one video if you want)…and then add multiple output modules to each video…so you can create a WMV, h264 and vp6 (through episode plug-in)…all at the same time in the background while you continue to edit on that sequence.

It’s a very clean workflow.

-Jason

[Jason Brown]

I would stay away from “exporting” from final cut to ur final deliverable. Final cut is an editor, not a transcoding software. The fact that compressor gave u reliable results doesnt surprise me. In regards to ur other issues of lag with streaming vs download…it’s YouTube…if u want more reliable and higher quality results, try something like vimeo…

Also, if ur on fcp7, u can use a “send to compressor” function. It’s like creating a file and taking into compressor…but simplifies the process. And in fcp7…u can continue to edit while transcoding.

[Jason Brown]

I would stay away from “exporting” from final cut to ur final deliverable. Final cut is an editor, not a transcoding software. The fact that compressor gave u reliable results doesnt surprise me. In regards to ur other issues of lag with streaming vs download…it’s YouTube…if u want more reliable and higher quality results, try something like vimeo…

Also, if ur on fcp7, u can use a “send to compressor” function. It’s like creating a file and taking into compressor…but simplifies the process. And in fcp7…u can continue to edit while transcoding.

[Jason Brown]

No attached image for me…

I’m a little confused on what you are asking…but this may help?

Do you have “sync time of related comps” enabled in prefs? It would be at the same time in related comps when clicking through them. This should get you what you need.

-Jason

[Jason Brown]

I like the send-to function that compressor uses through Final Cut. Nice that you can access Episode through the compressor plug-in too. You don’t ever have to create an intermediate file. Compress directly from your timeline. VERY ATTRACTIVE.

I’d like more function in doing a TimeCode overlay…being able to read from the timecode track embedded in a QT file, or create fresh time code.

I LOVE the hardware scaling that Matrox offers with CompressHD and their Max products to encode h264. Would love to see an offering that mixes something like that with other codecs…hardware accelerated MPEG2 and WMV encoding? That would be fun! 🙂

-Jason

[Jason Brown]

So what other tests have you done? Tried multiple browsers? Mobile?

How are you creating the file? Compressor? FCP? Episode?

Using a template to begin with?

-Jason

[Jason Brown]

I’m guessing ur audio source is 48k…? Have u tried 44.1?