Jeff Breuer
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Have you watched the webinar by Matrox that was recently posted on the COW? It has some good advice:
https://library.creativecow.net/articles/scartozzi_francesco/h264-matrox-webinar/video-tutorial
I also like this downloadable book from the LAFPUG forum:
https://books.intelligentassistance.com/EncodingRecipes/You have the basics down, but it’s best to play around with bit rate and bandwidth according to how you will be using the video. In the download, intelligent assistance also recommends using black restore filter and bumping up the blacks a little too. I’ve done that and liked the output.
Hope that helps.
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For a lower third on this project, you should be fine with the Big Web option from istock. I would recommend you “download a comp” first and put that in the video to make sure it works first and get client approval before you dish out the cash for the clip (It will download as flash, but don’t worry, it will play fine).
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I agree with these guys. If you are just learning the revostock or istock route would be the best, especially if you are on a job with a deadline. It looks to me as though there is no real flair in the animation, as if it is just a still that moves from right to left. Another cheap way around the bend would be to make the file in photoshop twice as long as it needs to be and animate it with keyframes (in FCP) to move from right to left.
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When you export like John suggested, you have your native file in the HD settings according to your timeline. From there you can pull it into Compressor and down covert to your SD MPEG2 files for DVD or your run it through Compressor to burn to Blu Ray, etc.
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If you are new to P2 workflow, definitely watch Shane’s video. It was a big help to me, thanks Shane!
Jeff
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I switched my VO over to an aiff file when I ripped out all of the movie files. Darn.
Regardless, thanks for your help. I certainly appreciated it.
Jeff
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I had H.264 footage in my project, but not in any of the comps I was using. To be safe I went ahead and deleted them from my project to see, and I converted my .mov Voice Over file into a .aiff…..but didn’t change a thing when I did a new RAM preview.
Any chance this has to do with a Memory, cache or scratch disk issue? I lowered mine according to recomendations Graham Jones made for running AE 7 on an Intel Mac. I boosted them back up to 90% and 80% just to see if it made a change, but nothing.
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You are right on about the Info Window – I’m not running at real time. However, I lowered my Comp Window to 33.3% and dropped the resolution to 1/3 and I still run into the same issue. Any thoughts?
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Ah-ha! I see. That explains it. I was trying to run it off my desktop, but if I CAN’T do that, well then there you go. I will have to put the mov file online before I can test it’s compatibility with the jw player. Got it, thanks!
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I copied your code and pasted it into my html document and changed the names for video and the picture and still nothing. Not the picture, not the player, nothing. You said to be sure I “installed” this with swfobject.js. I am not a program guy in the least. I put your code in an html document that sits in the same folder as all the other stuff. Is there something I am missing there? I know nothing about java and running on old html I learned in high school in the 90s.
Here’s my code now:
<html>
<body><script type="text/javascript">
var so = new SWFObject('player.swf','mpl','400','284','9');
so.addParam('allowscriptaccess','always');
so.addParam('allowfullscreen','true');
so.addParam('flashvars','&file=Phoenix.mov&image=preview.jpg&frontcolor=ffffff&lightcolor=cc9900&skin=bekle.swf');
so.write('player');
</script></td></body>
</html>Thanks again for your help!