[Jeff Greenberg]

[jon alva] ” I have searched the web and people who sell videos to churches mostly use 720×480 or 720×486″

This is standard definition; many people download the video and put it on a DVD.

[jon alva] “How will there video that they purchase from me match there Hd tv, or projector, or old tv?”
I think you mean, “how will they play back their video that they purchase? ”
Some may make DVDs (old TVs), some may or may not have a computer plugged into a projector. If they’re using a projector that doesn’t match, it scales down.

[jon alva] “I started out with 1280x 720 on my first video should I start over and make it 1920×1080?”
No. Never scale up. Either you shot in 1080 or you shot in 720 (We describe video by the vertical resolution – there are two HD forms, 1080 and 720.) Whatever you shot is the highest quality – and our starting point.

[jon alva] ” I can start it in any screen resolution. Also is it 1280×720 or 1260 x 720? “
1280×720.

[jon alva] “I am sorry for all the ?’s I have been looking everywhere for this answer. “
Jon, that’s what creative cow is for – answering questions like this!

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[Jeff Greenberg]

This depends on your footage – what are you giving FCPX?

Those settings won’t work on a DVD – and better settings could be had for Blu-Ray;

If you let us know how you’re delivering your footage, it’s easier to give you an idea of what settings to use. The Apple Settings are great starting points in compressor. In your original post, you said you’d be playing back from a Mac or a PC

“The people who download the videos will only use the videos to playback on there PC’s and Mac’s, to display on the projectors or TV’s in classrooms.” If they’re connected to a computer, the settings above are good.

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[Jeff Greenberg]

I think, think, that it might be in 10.5 – go to the sharing preference pane. If you see DVD sharing, you’re good to go. Then you just put them on the same network (Ethernet is faster than wifi)

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[Jeff Greenberg]

At this time, yes, you need to update to lion. There is a rumor of a 10.6.9 with iCloud integration…but that’s the price of rumors…

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[Jeff Greenberg]

[jon alva] “What is the best screen resolution I should give them to fill the overall settings of tv’s and projectors? What is the best Compresser 4 settings I should give them? What video Codec to use? How many different screen resolution sizes?
“

Projectors? best? TVs too?

Probably your best bet is to (if shot 1080) to deliver:
1920×1080 (1080 video)
1260×720 (720 video)
and
960×540 (1/4 size 1080)

Let them pick and use following presets
1080 – use the Apple HD for Apple Devices 10mb – but change the geometry to 100% (consider bumping the data rate to 14 meg or so)
720 – use the Apple HD for Apple Devices 10mb
540 – use the same Apple HD setting, change the geometry to 50% and drop the data rate to 4mbs.

You’ll have versions people can look at on their iOS devices (1080,720)
You’ll let someone pick the one to watch on their projector based on size (any of the three)
Ditto with a computer

These will be h.264 mpeg 4 files, and will work on both OSX and Win7

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[Jeff Greenberg]

Mac or PC? QuickTime or AVI file? I think you have an AVI file with the FFV1 codec – you’d need to have a decoder for that. The problem is, the codec packs out there, may cause problems with Premiere Pro.

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[Jeff Greenberg]

What you want is a strobe filter – show every 5th frame…so, it would show 1,1,1,1,5,5,5,5,10,10,10,10,10 – etc

The posterize time filter will do this for you.

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[Jeff Greenberg]

Mike,

Something else is going on. It certainly shouldn’t take that long. At the longest, it should take 2-3x the timeline.

See if Compressor Repair fixes it.

One thought, how are you getting it from FCP to Compressor?

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[Jeff Greenberg]

[Steve Brown] “This footage is great for the initial viewing, ( apart from some ghosting issues on ball movement through the air?) but i need to compress this for archiving, while keeping a reasonably high quality as the footage will be used again and viewed on large HD screens ( Panasonic 103”)
“

Steve – I’d suggest biting the bullet and saving the QuickTime files as they are. They’re perfect for archiving – they’ll remain exactly the quality you captured them at. They’ll playback decently too!

If you want to compress them for playback (not for archival), I’d suggest the apple TV 2 legato (or compressor) setting. Both should produce a 1080 file that is smaller but plays back great.

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[Jeff Greenberg]

[Daniel Berg] “I have been browsing this forum and seen a few people saying that exporting a self contained .mov and dragging sending that to compressor is the best option (rather than sharing straight from FCP).
“

This will make it faster. Quality will be a bit higher for graphics and generators if you send to compressor directly from FCP.

On the bit rate:

You’ll need a total bit rate of around 4,400 to end up with that sized file. I’d run 1 min @ a full 1080/25 and see how it looked. That’s probably a bit lower that it needs (nitrate wise).

I’d then try the same at 1280×720. And then again at 960×540. I’m pretty sure that 960×540 should look good, but I’d like you to have the largest pixel size possible.

Probably no need to change the frame rate.

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