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Jeff Greenberg
March 29, 2011 at 11:10 am in reply to: Optimal settings for rendering 1080p files for YouTube

Optimal?

1080p, around 8-10 mb/s, h.264 VBR, 2 pass…at 15 min, that’ll give you around the 1 gig size.

And if the file is big? The bigger it is, the less compressed it is….and that works, to a point.

Youtube does have advanced Java uploader that permits you to have larger resumable uploads.

Best,

Jeff G

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Jeff Greenberg
March 28, 2011 at 8:54 pm in reply to: Render video and audio together in one single file

Actually, that makes 100% sense.

Usually encoders build the MPEG-2 stream for DVD production as elementary streams (notice the s there.)
The Audio is encoded separately, because of the possibility of 8 additional streams (such as foreign language and commentaries.)

So, if you’re planning this to go to Encore for DVD production – it’s working right! Bring both to encore and you should be good to go.

But, if you want them as a single file, then Turn on multiplexing and switch it to MPEG2 (better yet DVD for a DVD).

This will give you one file and work almost exactly the same – as long as you don’t add additional video or audio streams on the track of a DVD.

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Jeff G

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Jeff Greenberg
March 28, 2011 at 11:37 am in reply to: How to make stills same as project size

Jerry,

I’m not Ann and I don’t know what version of Premiere Pro you’re using.

If you want a still to match your video – HD is 1920 x 1080 or 1280 x 720.

If you’re using CS5, Premiere Pro has a setting in it’s defaults to rescale stuff to match.

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Jeff G

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Jeff Greenberg
March 28, 2011 at 11:29 am in reply to: Render video and audio together in one single file

What preset are you using when you choose to Export Media?

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Jeff G

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Jeff Greenberg
March 28, 2011 at 11:29 am in reply to: Compressor “ERROR Unrecognized Request”

Worth giving this a shot: Compressor repair

Also, here’s apple’s technote in troubleshooting compressor.

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Jeff G

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Jeff Greenberg
March 28, 2011 at 11:25 am in reply to: Final cut pro 7/export files

My instinct is that you have some damaged media. Quick and easy test: duplicate the timeline twice.

On the first one, delete the 2nd half.
On the second one, delete the 1st half.

Export both of those pieces. If one works and the other doesn’t? You know which half has the corrupt media.

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Jeff G

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Jeff Greenberg
March 28, 2011 at 11:17 am in reply to: 9 Minute Video is 880MB? Normal?

[Rachel Corinne] “he video is in HD. Firstly, should the size be 880MB, or do you think I did something weird in Final Cut Pro that made the file size huge?”

Rachel, that’s (conservatively) small. Uncompressed HD runs 6 gigs a minute, so I’d expect 50 or so gigs for 9 mins.
It’s likely you’re working with a compressed HD – ProRes, especially if it was from a DSLR camera.

While there are formats that make it even smaller – FCP doesn’t do so hot with heavily compressed footage at this time. The general workflow, if the source video was h.264 is to transcode it to ProRes – a larger file that FCP doesn’t have to work so hard with.

If you’re uploading to youtube, Gary is dead on – there’s a great Youtube preset. Select your sequence, File menu> Send to Compressor. Pick the youtube setting and compress.

Separate from all of this is your upload speeds. Go to speedtest.net and actually measure your upload and download speeds.
I guesstimate that your speed is around 50kb/s – it sounds like you have a slow DSL connection. So yes, it’s conceivable that it might take 5 hours.

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Jeff G

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Jeff Greenberg
March 28, 2011 at 11:01 am in reply to: Quicktime 10 – Good way to compress for web?

Tom,

Sure do!

Take your video into Compressor. Use the Youtube Setting. It’s optimized for a decent size as an upload….and that will be handled by Youtube and Vimeo well.

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Jeff G

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Jeff Greenberg
March 28, 2011 at 10:59 am in reply to: Motion preset for ProRes442

Dave,

Motion handles everything internally uncompressed. All those settings at the beginning? It’s merely to get the frame size + fps correct – there is no compression in Motion.

If you use the ‘send to’ choice in FCP – the result will be a .motn file in fcp.
You can literally put the motion project into FCP (whether or not it started in FCP.)
So no, you don’t need anything. When you physically render in FCP, that’s when the motion file will have some compression on it.

If you want to physically make a QuickTime file from motion? Sure – ProRes4444 (want the alpha – needs to be millions of colors + )

Best,

Jeff G

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Jeff Greenberg
March 27, 2011 at 6:39 pm in reply to: mp4 slow playback

Actually, QuickTime X is QuickTime player in os 10.6.x – it has no borders (as opposed to the QuickTime 7 player).

Both use different methods of playing back files, especially, as I understand it, h.264.

VLC player is totally safe- it’s an open source player (in the same way that Firefox and MPEG Streamclip are open source) that can pretty much play anything…And it uses a third way to playback h.264 files.

As far as mpeg-4 being recognized by windows? It’s dicey. It’s very client/install dependent.

I suspect when you say you’re using the h.264 under QuickTime, you’re meaning in the settings either the Apple>Formats>QuickTime>Apple h.264 or the Apple> Other Workflows > Web> Download> QuickTime 7 Compatible > h.264 (one of these.) I suspect you DON’T mean that you’re adding your own preset.

It’s a strange problem. If it only stutters on this one machine, Craig is dead on – it might not be worth the hassle to troubleshoot it, knowing that it plays back fine on client systems and in YouTube.

The question you have to ask yourself…if it’s only a problem on that machine, is it really an issue?

Best,

Jeff G

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