[Jeff Greenberg]

This is both an editorial question and a compression question.

I’d ask; what size you’d like the video to be on the webpage;

I’d probably recommend 23.98 960×540; explanation follows.

Few (if any) clients are going to view your video in full 1080; all your 1080 is 23.98.
But it’d make sense, given the mix to show off the HD and yet, not scale up the SD (the 480 content) too much.

I think your best bet is 960×540 – 1/4 1080 size, still ‘higher’ than standard definition (therefore it’s HD, even if it’s not a broadcast matching HD.)

#1 scaled down (looks great)
#2 Scaled up slightly, needs deinterlacing/frame cadence (your NLE should do the frame cadence)
#3 Matches, just needs some frame cadence adjustments/deinterlace
#4 See #1.

The other details depend on your editorial tool.

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[Jeff Greenberg]

The fastest way for this to happen is to create .mxf DNxHD files – not just QuickTime – so you can convert and drop into the MXF folder in an avid.

Squeeze has a preset (and will even generate an AAF for you.)
I managed to get Episode to do this, but there was no preset (took about 10 min of adjusting settings)
There is also Cinec but I haven’t tried it yet (PC only, free)

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[Jeff Greenberg]

Sadly,

It’s not possible with these proportions. h.264/mp4 is defined by a Profile and a Level.

There is no Level (right now) that describes beyond 4k, which is why this won’t work. You’ll have to go to something else for a deliverable.

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[Jeff Greenberg]

Two apps do this – Episode Encoder on PC and (free) the Cinec Encoder. I just tested it and it works great for prores.

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[Jeff Greenberg]

Can you? Sure. Straight cuts work best. And it’d dependent on the footage.

Adobe Premiere Pro permits exporting of a AAF file…you then use AMA to reconnect to the footage.

It…tends to be on the dicey side. Forget anything other than dissolves and simple audio. Titles and AE projects won’t come across either.

[Jeff Greenberg]

What if you looked your footage in script view and then added comments on good or not?

In List view, you can add a “Frame” in column view – just like FCP

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[Jeff Greenberg]

Something is wrong with your system.

Have you tried creating a new user (meaning something is wrong with your user)?

What sort of QuickTime clips are they?

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[Jeff Greenberg]

Don,

I hate to say it, but I think Fedex is the way to go. You could, convert everything to very, very small h.264 (make sure they’re QuickTime files) and then *slow ship* the same drives – relinking later. If you wanted to go down a proxy route, you’d want to create QuickTime h.264 files (and try them around 5mbs or so – this is easily sent over the net. But I’m assuming you’re Fedexing due to timely nature of materials, so this wouldn’t really work.

Decently large h264 files will could cut the ProRes files in half or so, but that’s still an issue (otherwise, why not just bring in a second faster data connection.)

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[Jeff Greenberg]

Just an idea: have you though of trying to go uncompressed and then go to MP4? You’l build some big files, but they may fix your sync problems.

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[Jeff Greenberg]

Either Telestrem Episode or Sorenson Squeeze should be able to handle these. Compressor is great, but not optimized for these outputs.

Neither has (I believe) a preset for Profile/level – you need to adhere to what those mean.
Profile is mostly about Color Space
Level is about Size + Data Rate

I’d download both, and go at creating a finished file.

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