Joel Peregrine
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Hi,
I’m not familiar with what FCE can do in comparison to FCS, but shouldn’t it possible to skip the AIC version and export as H.264 using a QT conversion right off the timeline?
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Hi,
I’m not familiar with what FCE can do in comparison to FCS, but shouldn’t it possible to skip the AIC version and export as H.264 using a QT conversion right off the timeline? Or if you’d like to keep editing export a reference movie and do the conversion with QT Pro 7.
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Hi Eddi,
What you’re seeing is the camera increase the gain because lens doesn’t let in as much light when you’re zoomed in as it does when its wide. The only way to get cleaner footage at longer focal lengths is to make sure the subject is lit well enough so that the camera doesn’t have to use gain to get a proper exposure. The only other factor may be that your camera has a digital zoom function, which uses a smaller area of the sensor to increase the focal length. This can create artifacts.
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Hi Elizabeth,
To present flash your clip does not have to be flash. You can simply encode your online files with quicktime with the H264 codec and rename the extension of the resulting file to .flv. Its an accepted, working and free solution.
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Hi Milton,
Is the source footage HDV? Even if there is no rendering needed, i.e. no filters or speed changes have been applied, the timeline still needs to “conform” because of the GOP structure of the HDV format.
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Hi Kevin,
OT – what happened to the title of my post??? Something whacky going on. That is from a different, unrelated thread…
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Hi Daniel,
Everything uploaded to youtube is re-encoded, so its best not to limit the bitrate or size. Sending them the best quality file possible with result in the best looking results in the end. I encode all my movies for youtube with H.264 multi-pass at 10000 kbits/sec and at the original resolution – 1920×1080. Audio is 256k 44.1 AAC. Giving them an hd file originally triggers an hd file to also be encoded and offered.
Because you have a G4 these settings are going to bog down your computer. There are two options – just deal with it and batch encode them overnight, or buy a device like the Elgato H.264 Turbo:
https://www.elgato.com/elgato/na/mainmenu/products/Turbo264HD/product1.en.html
The quality isn’t as good as a QT multipass but its definitely watchable and encodes very fast regardless of your machine.
And just a note: Don’t judge the final youtube movie quality by what you see right after you upload. If you uploaded the movie and looked right away at it you most often see the lowest resolution version only. If you wait a bit they complete encoding the higher resolution versions and if you have a broadband connection it looks much better. Occasionally you’ll see a notice pop up that the quality will improve if what you’re seeing is full of artifacts.
My youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/weddingfilmsdotcom
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Hi Rafael,
I understand the concept of having data coming from two sources can be a faster system overall, but IMHO saying it is mandatory not to use your system drive for media is outdated. This unquestionably was true back when data rates coming off of internal drives were so much slower and the processor speed and maximum RAM allowed were a fraction of what they are now. Back in the G3 and G 4 / ATA 33 HDD / 512 MB RAM days NLE’s were just barely able to pull in the resources they needed so as not to drop frames, but even taking into account HD formats the situation has improved dramatically, not only with all the hardware elements but also the efficiency of the software. Yet editors that have been around the block repeat the mantras that were drilled into them for so long and may not realize they don’t apply any longer. I’m guilty of doing this with a lot of different issues. Reevaluation isn’t as easy as just saying the same thing you’ve always said.
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“External. Never put your media on your system drive.”
I disagree based on personal experience. I edit full-time on two MacBook Pros with 500gb 5400 rpm drives partitioned for OS and media and have never had a problem. Footage is HDV and ProRes, rendered to ProRes. I put out both long-form and same-day edit presentations. The internal drive puts out over 50 MB/sec. Everything is mirrored via SuperDuper on a regular basis to external back-ups. If you need to be mobile, internal is the best and safest way to go, IMHO, mostly because cables can become disconnected. YMMV.