[Keith Greenfield]

I thought this would be just another jokey kind of poke at Apple. Its not, its very poignant. For me and I guess a lot of others. My first a IIFX and now my last a G5. Never thought it would end like this.
I downloaded, installed and read the manual. Downloaded all available extra content.
Assembled three short projects from a mix of P2, XDCAM, h264 and 48/41k audio.
Executed tests with nearly all (got bored) the available effects/transitions/generators/colour correction.
Gave it a good spanking for four hours thirty minutes, fettled with every drop down and now I have nothing left to play with. Is that it?
As Ms Gaynor says, ‘can’t you see its just no good, I’ve gotta walk out that door’

[Keith Greenfield]

Oh ha ha ha…sweet, I have been using FCP since v1, never thought of using Media Managers re-compress option. Brilliant, must RTFM sometime.

5 sec rant to follow…
But then up until recently I was using I frame video! native, real video, not this long GOP stuff I have been tricked into accepting. XDCAM/h264 et al ! When I first saw h264 at NAB years ago never thought it would ever end up as a edit codec. But then again, it hasn’t really has it? we all end up re purposing it into something else, just like we did with raw video.

[Keith Greenfield]

You cannot have too many buttons…I use Logitech Laser Anywhere Mouse MX. The HyperFast scrolling is perfect for spinning along a timeline and Darkfield tracking great for any surface.
https://www.logitech.com/en-gb/mice-pointers/mice/devices/5846

I would have preferred the larger Performance Mouse, but it requires a charging dock. Bit of a faff when on the move with laptop. The MX uses good old batteries. Its a tad small for my hands but fits in the notebook bag easily. Maybe the Performance for the studio and the MX for the road..

Now that is for one hand…under the other hand I have the wonderful Contour Shuttle Pro2.
https://retail.contourdesign.com/?/products/23
Has settings for just about every app out there and sooo many programmable buttons. Hardly ever need to use the keyboard.

[Keith Greenfield]

well no…I think. If was was Flash then that would not work on Apple iPhone/iTouch. ??
However there is a Flash Player fall back option in Vimeo so may do both.
If you join and can download the file is …mp4. Now what’s that all about.

[Keith Greenfield]

Oh yes, you have a native HD file there. Right off your timeline sounds like.
As the guys say, drop it into compressor and give it a squeeze before uploading,
I use Vimeo an alternative to Utube. It’s a smaller ‘respectful community of creatives who like sharing their work’. Some great learning areas in there. Free to join.
Give it a go, has all the functionality of Utube without the clutter and the pond life.

My best set up for Compressor: but read on to the end.
h.264 640×360/AAC 44.1 k , you can leave it native HD frame size if you wish, but its the web, keep it simple. 640×360 is OK for most. https://vimeo.com/20543974

Depending on traffic takes around 3min per min to upload then maybe a wait of around 30min before its available.

However: after saying all that I have found that the h.264 setting wont play if you access Vimeo via a smartphone. Blaberry/iPhone/iPod touch etc. Just fine on everything else. Doh.

I did quick test and noticed that plain vanilla mp4 works on all. https://vimeo.com/21547920

I tried using the Apple Devices – iPhone preset in Compressor and because it creates an .m4v file Vimeo spits it out.
I am thinking it may see it as ‘Apple protected’ format. Odd…its still an h264 under the cover. Any ideas anybody?

[Keith Greenfield]

Bob,
if its web and web only…then 1080/30 is just fine. The web content is going to end up at around 640×360 and the web site is most likely to use h.264 as a codec.
VIMEO is a great place to test your content using that codec. I use it all the time. I tend not to bother trancoding and uploading full HD as it eats up my bit budget, 640×360 is fine for most things.
https://vimeo.com/18796359

I much prefer to shoot 30p or even 60p here in the UK if I know its going to end on web or as HD streaming from a media player direct into a plasma/lcd panel. That was one of the reason for buying into Sony XDCAM. Hey if anybody wants UK footage just let me know…you can be sure its going to work just fine over there.

If you use Compressor then this is the set up I find works ok for web. If the web site needs a higher res version for download then up the frame size and data rate.

Audio Encoder
AAC, Stereo (L R), 44.100 kHz
Video Encoder
Format: QT
Width: 640
Height: 360
Pixel aspect ratio: Square
Crop: None
Padding: None
Frame rate: (100% of source)
Frame Controls: Off
Codec Type: H.264
Multi-pass: On, frame reorder: On
Pixel depth: 24
Spatial quality: 75
Min. Spatial quality: 25
Key frame interval: 30
Temporal quality: 50
Min. temporal quality: 25
Average data rate: 3.584 (Mbps)

regards

[Keith Greenfield]

Wey hey…In ClipBrowser you can create new BPAV with selects. See ClipBrowser Manual “Creating clips by specifying ranges”
OH thanks mate…got to play with that now…I really must ‘RTFM’ sometime.

[Keith Greenfield]

Thanks Craig, so it seems that its QT that’s the issue. Can PPro accept QT component? Just when I thought the PC v Mac thing had gone away.
just sent the BPAV as per. But you can see why I would like to just send the trimmed clips, the BPAV is going to contain pre/post roll…and the usual ground shots. Hey I wonder if one can trim clips within the BPAV? unlikely i guess. I always send trimmed lo res , watermarked previews out of XDCAM Clip Browser so at least hey can get some idea of how things are flowing along. hey ho.

[Keith Greenfield]

Hi can I just add my pennyworth ‘the world as i see it’:
I jumped ship to progressive as soon as I was able, heres the big question, is my logic sound?
Apart from those lucky enough to have a Samsung HD CRT, all footage ends up on a progressive scan device, be it PC screen, LCD or Plasma.
Any interlaced material will at sometime need to be ‘de-interlaced’.
De-interlacing by means of taking 50% of the vertical information, throwing it away and replacing with interpolated content.
So, here goes, is the vertical resolution of 720p better than 1080i once it has been de-interlaced and up on a plasma? hmm.
True, DVD video disc data is indeed interlaced and the de-interlacing and if required, scaling, performed by the player or the onboard software in the screen. If not all scaler algorithms are created equal then does the same apply to de-interlacing software?
Answers on my desk before registration please.

[Keith Greenfield]

Raphael, v1.10?…currently running nothing at the moment, camera bricked and still with vendor, legal are now handling the case. Me? running v10+ of ‘RedMist’