[Jeremy Garchow]

Yeah, I know…it seems simple enough, right? There’s definitely been times when I provide a link to a quicktime movie (sorenson3, usually) for my clients to view and download and they can’t see it and then i provide a link to quicktime and they still don’t get it. I have found if I use MPEG1, I get a lot less calls on how to watch video on a computer. You’re lucky, Walter, your clients are just smarter than mine. 😉

jg

[Jeremy Garchow]

Are you watching this movie on your computer monitor? If so, you are seeing the interlace which is present in your DV footage. Watch that movie out to a CRT and the lines will go away.

Also, listen to Jerry. Keep the movie in dv format. You gain nothing exporting out to uncompressed except time and file size.

[Jeremy Garchow]

This is the perfect time to introduce you to the slug fade. Take a slug and put it in v3 and fade up to it. No nesting, no multiple dissolve effects and all of your layers below the slug keep their opacity.

[Jeremy Garchow]

If you really want it to be painless and hassle free, get yourself another internal hard drive (a SATA drive if you’re on a G5, or an IDE drive if you’re on a G4). Install Panther (10.3.8), QT 6.5.x, and fcp 4.5 on the new drive. ALthough it might be a hassle up front (paying for a drive and doing all of the installs) it will save you some headaches down the road. People on this four and others have successfully installed different version of FCP on even quicktime on the same drive, but I would not recommend it. Keep the big cats (TIger & Panther) in separate cages to avoid conflict.

Jeremy

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[Jeremy Garchow]

If you want it to be pretty much bullet proof, you should encode to mpeg1. It’s definitely not the best web compression codec out there, but it is playable in quicktime and windows media player. With all do Creative Cow respect, Walter’s suggestion of h264 and quicktime 7 is a good one, but sometimes it’s not realistic. I don’t know who your clients are, but sometimes if they work for large companies, they have crappy supplied computers that can barely run an mp3, let alone any kind of video. Also, depending on how computer savvy the are (or aren’t) asking them to download and install a new and unlearned software might be a daunting task. Even with QuickTime pretty much running itself, people can get easily confused. Now, all of a sudden, you are trying to tech support all 30 of your clients cuz they don’t know how to install something. MPEG1 will cater to these kinds of lowest common denominators as it’ll run natively on pretty much whatever they have installed on their machines.

This is just a suggestion and take it for what it’s worth. If you know that your clients have upgraded systems and can handle a simple download and install, h264 and a link to quicktime 7 is ideal and will also look the best.

Jeremy

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[Jeremy Garchow]

[davidtoo] “Should I have asked him to upload it in a different format?”

Yes. As it has been mentioned before in this thread, you ideally want a 48k (48000 kHz) 16 bit Stereo (or mono if it’s voice only) aiff file. The file size will be significantly larger, but if he has an ftp or website you are downloading form it shouldn’t be too bad. Depending on where this thing is showing, it will also sound better. mp3’s, although convenient, really sound like poo poo when played on nice audio systems and is really noticeable in “big room” sound. They lose the brilliance and a little bit of the rounded out mid range to low frequencies. This is just an observation that i have noticed through trial and error. If your colleague has composed an original piece of music, you should encourage their hard work and edit & show it in an uncompressed audio format. It will be music to his or her ears.

Jeremy

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[Jeremy Garchow]

What’s your hard dive hardware and what resolution is your media?

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[Jeremy Garchow]

Woop, found another free one with a tutorial even!

link to tutorial:

https://www.bobhudson.com/BitViceHelper.html

Link to FREE! product:

https://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/10856

Good luck and happy bitvicing.

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ATTO 42XS <> Huge Systems 1.25 TB 4105 Fibre

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Don Greening] “The first version of Compressor will work fine.”

Well, that’s not really true. If it is it’s news to me. Compressor one does not have the multiplexing option built in. What you can try and do, Mark, is use a program called mpeg streamclip (it’s free).

https://www.alfanet.it/squared5/mpegstreamclip.html

I have not tried this particular workflow, but supposedly you can compress your movie in compressor one, leaving you with an m2v file and an aiff file. As long as the files are named exactly the same and in the same folder, save the extension, it will load up both the video and audio at the same time. You can then export it as a muxed transport stream. So, if you have an exported movie called gubbamint.mov and you compress it in compressor, make sure the m2v and audio file are named the same. You should have gubbamint.m2v & gubbamint.aiff. MPEG Streamclip can then read those separate files and spit out one file.

Like I said, I have not used this workflow, but I have used MPEG streamclip to convert transport streams into editable video or unmuxed video and audio for use in DVDSP.

Good luck and happy streamclipping.

Jeremy

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[Jeremy Garchow]

Are you using compressor 2? if so, you can make mpeg2 transport streams with muxed audio (an mpeg2 with audio and video together in 1 glorious file).

What you need to do is export reference movie from fcp, then open up compressor and drag the movie in there (or export directly from fcp to compressor, your choice). Add your favorite MPEG2 VIDEO ONLY preset and double click the setting. The inspector should now pop up (if it wasn’t open already) and you should click on the second button from the top. It’s the “encoder” button. YOu will see four tabs. Click on the ‘extras’; tab and then you will see three tickboxes. Check the box that says “Multiplexed MPEG-1/Layer 2 Audio”. Hit submit and sit back and watch compressor do it’s handy work, or better yet get your favorite libation and clear your head. At the end of the compressing you will have a file that has a .mts extension. This is your file with Mpeg2 Video and Mpeg1Layer2 Audio.

Good luck and happy transport streaming.

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