[Jim Prisby]

Dave,
Yes, I would recommend upgrading to Quicktime Pro and compressing with that for Blip.TV. It will be converted to flash once it’s there but you can choose to have the quicktime version play if it looks better. Here’s the info from their FAQs.

16. Do you offer Flash video?
We most certainly do. Every video you upload is converted to Flash as soon as possible. Videos are converted on a roughly first-come, first-serve basis. Once your video has converted to Flash we will automatically present the Flash version to viewers on blip.tv as a convenience. You can change this behavior (and make us always display the native format first) by setting your Playback Preferences.

Let me know how it works and the link to your videos if you don’t mind sharing.

I have one personal collection at https://surferj45.blip.tv/

Jim

[Jim Prisby]

Dave,
When you save a project in Vegas it’s given the extension .veg, I meant that I save the files with the frame size as part of the name (720 or 360..I actually meant to say 480) to help me recognize which frame size each project is.

On2VP6 is the newest and best codec for flash and is included in the Adobe CS3 Flash Encoder. I have the Adobe Premium Production Suite which includes this encoder. It also comes with Adobe CS3 Flash. I don’t think you can buy it separate.

You can buy other compression programs that have the codec. check out Sorenson Squeeze for Flash at
https://www.sorensonmedia.com/store/?pageID=35#a2

or On2 Tecnologies Flix Pro at
https://www.on2.com/index.php?365

Try out the demo downloads. These programs have the 2 pass feature for better compression that my Adobe flash encoder doesn’t have.

Jim

[Jim Prisby]

I have several accounts at Blip.TV and love the fact that they don’t re-encode the videos that I upload unlike YouTube. The result is a much higher quality video. I capture my SD footage in Vegas 8 Pro with project properties set to NTSCDV 720×480 29.97 fps. After editing I save it as 720.veg which can later be rendered and put on DVD. To prepare it for uploading to Blip.TV I do the following.

In the project properties:
Change the width and height to 480×360, 29.97 fps
Change the field order to None (progressive scan)
Change the pixel aspect ratio to 1.000 (square)

I save this as 360.veg. You can then render it out as a mwv or mov file. I believe you can indicate in your Blip.TV account to leave it in the original format and not to re-encode it to flash.

But here’s what I found works for me. I render it out as an avi file with video format set to uncompressed and audio set to PCM Uncompressed and audio channels set to mono.
I have the Adobe flash CS3 video encoder so I then use the On2 VP6 encoder to render it to flash at 480×360, 29.97 fps. But I specify a max data rate of 350 kbps for the video and 64 kbps mono for the audio. This compresses it to a reasonable size and strikes a good balance between quality and a combined data rate of 400-450 kbps which easily makes the video play smoothly for nearly if not all DSL/cable connections.

I’d love to hear other opinions and suggestions for even better methods.

Jim

[Jim Prisby]

Thanks, Alan. The answer is yes I own the computers and will be the only one using them.

[Jim Prisby]

I have moved away from using YouTube because I was never satisfied with the video quality. I now use Blip.TV at https://blip.tv. You can upload your videos as MWV, MOV or Flash 8. They will re-encode the WMV and MOV videos to Flash 8 as the default first play video but also list your original format video available as a second choice for viewing. You can also designate that your original format video is the default first play video. When you upload in Flash 8 format they do not re-encode it so it looks really great. They have no file size limit but recommend 100MB. So far I’m much happier with Blip.TV for my purposes, It may be a disadvantage for commercial advertising since it’s lesser known than YouTube but you can copy the link code to your website. If anyone else has tried Blip.TV I’d love to hear your comments.

[Jim Prisby]

I discovered that the dual plug ins shown are actually the old version 9.0.5 and the new patched version 9.1.5. Apparently the patch doesn’t remove the older version and they opperate independent of each other. I manually removed the older versions from the plug in folder and tried the patched version only. It worked fine on some blur effects but when I used the color glaze effect it crashed PPro CS3. But after reopening it and trying the color glaze again it seemed to work fine so I am not confident that it is fully stable with PPro CS3. Hopefully the Boris FX lab will test it fully with PPro CS3.

[Jim Prisby]

I use the Logic keyboard at:

https://www.logickeyboard.com/shop/default.asp?SetLng=2&BypassShopClosed=1

Click on Sony Vegas under Film/Video. I use the USB Multimedia version…no jog wheel…looks and works great.

[Jim Prisby]

Laszlo,
Here is a grab from the link you offered:
Scalable processor support

[Jim Prisby]

Thanks, Gary, any update on your new training DVDs for Vegas 7 and DVDA 4?

[Jim Prisby]

[jkb242] “Video shot with Sony VX2100 NTSC In Vegas 7 the interlacing artifacts are horrible when there is movement—NO SURPRISE.”

I don’t quite understand your NO SURPRISE comment above. I use the VX2100 and don’t have the artifacts you speak of during movement. The video from that camera is very sharp and clear. I have also rendered to MWV with no problems. Perhaps the problem you are having has to do with the method you are using to capture the vieo. How are you capturing the video?