[Jeff Greenberg]

Pick any tool you prefer. h.264 at 1/4 res (do 320×240 and crop off the 3 lines)

Run the compression at 500kbs (video and audio.) It should look decent. 2 pass VBR
You can break it into hour segments – so 3 segments.

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[Jeff Greenberg]

[David Eaks] “FWIW- If I’m not mistaken, anyone with a mobile phone can “upgrade” their YouTube Account to allow unlimited size/length uploads now. There’s a link at the bottom of the Upload page “increase my limit”. Click the link, enter mobile number, click submit and BAM, unlimited. I just logged in to a clients YouTube that I have NOT upgraded yet, to verify. I took screenshots of the link and enter mobile number pages if anyone needs to see.”

Yup, it’s called verification – but most people don’t know about it.

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[Jeff Greenberg]

IF you look at the guide from Youtube that Craig posted, you’ll see that the data rate of 1.5 mb/s for an SD file is adequate – that should provide you with what you want. Since you’re hitting their suggested sweet spot, it should look fine….

But of course, you could test that 1 min piece and see the results.

They will recompress it, but the recompression isn’t multiplicative (nor additive). Their suggested starting points produce decent content – but at that data rate HD is out.

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[Jeff Greenberg]

[Margie Smith] “I used Jaksta to recapture the progressive download off of first Vimeo and then Youtube, converted the files to ProRes and was able to edit with them but when I tried to convert back to .mp4’s Final Cut kept giving me an errot message and wouldn’t let me do it. Wouldn’t let me re-compress into any format. Once I removed the ripped files all was well. They were the problem.”

That’s not a copy protection issue. You might want to look at something like DamnVid (open source, option of zero re-encoding.) I don’t know if Jaksta does a re-encode.

So everything worked in FCP and then you couldn’t make MPG4 via compressor? Youtube nor Vimeo uses any copy protection at all.

What do you mean by ripped and in what part of your chain are you doing it? Yes, DVDs have the option of two types of copy protection – CSS – content scrambling system and Macrovision – both have to be done at the replication house (and have separate licensing costs). You couldn’t really make copies either way. Macrovision would adjust the video gain – although methods to ignore that existed before DVDs – and CSS was pretty much taken care of due to lax methods of protecting it.

It sounds like this is your chain:
Digital file (youtube/vimeo) via Jaksta> ProRes (how did you get your video into ProRes – Jaksta?) > FCP > Output.

And it sounds like you’re having a problem with the FCP>Output part of your chain. Yes?

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Jeff G

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[Jeff Greenberg]

[Kim Bo] “, if my video is like 80GB, when the compress is over… the video might be very big”

It’ll be about 10-20 gigs.

[Kim Bo] “I guess I will need to play with the setting…the kbits/sec…cause if the video is more than 1GB to upload, it.s gonna be very long for people to load the video as well…
Should I play with the setting of the youtube compress in compressor?”

Nope. You should leave it alone and ask management for a faster pipe to the internet. The Video is going to be recompressed at the youtube side – and you want a decent quality/size tradeoff.

I know you think 10-20 gig is large…it’s not.

Uncompressed HD? Your video would be about 700 or so gigs.
If it’s compressed down to 10 gigs, you’re talking around 70x compression (which is pretty damn good.)

Could you conceivably get it down to 1gb? Sure – your data rate would be about 1,500 kbs. That would be decent for SD footage, but not great for HD – don’t take my word for it; push your video through at that level and see how it looks.

Of course, you could shrink the whole thing down to SD, and maybe get a decent looking file at 1.5mb/s – but again, youtube will compress it again.

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Jeff G

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[Jeff Greenberg]

Can you be more specific about what you’re trying to do?

Remember, anything viewable on your computer, technically can be recorded (and therefore used as a source.)

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[Jeff Greenberg]

You won’t see the thumbnail, but if you click on the Job, you can then scrub the movie in the Preview window.

If that doesn’t work = do you perhaps have both FCP7 and FCPX on the same system?

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[Jeff Greenberg]

JC,

I’m going to guess you can’t do it with what you have. You’re going to need either Telestream Episode or Sorenson Squeeze.

I tried to build a preset in Episode – I couldn’t get a program stream with PCM audio (admittedly, I spent all of 2 min on this.)
I assume Squeeze can do this too (although it had problems with my system and I’m on the road.)

Just download both and see if either will work.

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Jeff G

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[Jeff Greenberg]

Kim,

You don’t say what format. I’m going to guess ProRes? Are you going to host it? You mention uploading it to youtube, but youtube will limit you to 15 minutes only.

Compressor has a youtube preset. QT7 isn’t as good as compressor as compressor has better frame rate/scaling algorithms.

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Jeff G

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[Jeff Greenberg]

First, Move all the FCP7 pieces into your Application directory.
Move all the FCPX pieces into a folder called FCPX in your Application directory.

That’s exactly what the tech note tells you to do.

Then run Motion 4 and then Motion 5.

At this point everything has been correctly ‘registered’ with the OS.

To test compressor 4: open it. Cancel the templates…and then drag a piece of video in, pick a preset and choose “Submit”

Let us know how that goes. Should take 10 min or so.

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Jeff G

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