[Ken Vaughn]

I remembered seeing a promo mail from Sony and I found it, 20% off everything including the needed upgrade. Looks like it’s going to happen sooner than I thought. John, I tried to approximate the settings in your screen shot…produced a 141MB file…but it looks really good.

Ken

[Ken Vaughn]

John,

Absolutely no problem. I’ve been banging on these keys long enough to know that the fact you or anyone else is willing to help at all is a blessing.

While video was more of a hobby for me when I bought VP-8 now in my own enterprise I can see that it can be a powerful marketing tool so I will definitely upgrade as soon as it is practical (meaning as soon as I can do it and keep the lights on). Along with this I’m going to upgrade my shooting hardware and I’m hoping to be able to do that as I’ve said by getting rid of one setup and using the proceeds to get another.

I worked on embedding the vid and trying to find the sweet spot between quality and file size last night. If this vid were simple fades as I’ve said it would be easy. But with the rotation of the 3D model and a background that is made up of a gradient it’s not so much so. Here are two efforts;

https://www.ifab.us/skidvid.html

…and a .wmv version;

https://www.ifab.us/skidvid-win.html

I’m hoping the need to add the QT plugin won’t be a problem. My typical users are not web/computer savvy.

Also I wish there were a progress bar when QT is downloading a file, I can see some wondering what’s going on. I may just add a text note to the page saying “If you see the blue Q, you’re good to goo”….or something like that…

Thanks again,

Ken

[Ken Vaughn]

No problem, at least I’ve solved the case of the missing templates. I do intend to upgrade at some point but it can’t happen now and I need to show this vid to a prospective client hopefully this weekend. I’m starting to get good results though, file size is coming down still maintaining good quality.

Thanks,

Ken

[Ken Vaughn]

Bill, no problem at all, I don’t mind, any and all input is welcome.

I did try the Main Concept option but I’m still not seeing anything “Internet” listed.

All I see in the dropdown is;

Project Settings
Apple iPod 320 x 240 Video
Apple iPod 640 x 480 Video

I did learn what happens with a 50,000,000 average (bps)….the render wouldn’t complete, had to Crtl+Alt+Del Vegas..like a black hole.

With normal title fades and the like it doesn’t take much to look good from what I’m seeing but the rotating 3D models and the pan across an engineering drawing are different matters entirely.

Thanks for the input.

Ken

[Ken Vaughn]

Ok, following recommendations I rendered the project file to “Sony AVC (*.mp4;*.m2ts;*.avc)” which yielded a .mp4, 16MB file. The original durations of the file is 2:30 seconds. Everything looks fine until the assembly starts to revolve and then there are serious artifacts on the object itself and in the background. So, I need to do some setting tweaking. As I don’t assume you can see what I see when choosing settings here are my choices;

Custom Settings;
Video Tab;
Video Format – AVC – Memory Stick
Profile – Main – Baseline
Entropy Coding – CABAC – CAVLC
Frame Rate – 29.970
Field Order – None (progressive scan) – Lower field first – Upper Field first
Pixel Aspect Ratio – 1.0000 – 1.3333
Bit Rate – 768,000 – 4,000,000 – 10,000,000 – 20,000,000

System Tab
Format – MP4 File Format (.mp4) – Mpeg2 – Video elementary stream (.avc)

Btw, I’m not seeing any sort of “Internet template”.

Ken

[Ken Vaughn]

John, thanks a bunch, you’ve been extremely helpful. Funny thing is, I have 8.0c installed on a quad-core desktop I built but that machine is sitting about three feet to my left with a corrupted MBR and I haven’t gotten around to fixing it yet. And, it runs Vista Premium so I figured I’d use this Win7 LT as it’s my main machine now with it’s newer OS. Also, I took it for granted that 8.1 was a newer version but I guess the difference is 32 vs 64 and I thought a 64bit program would always be best with a 64bit OS.

Thanks for an authoritative smack-down of email attachments. I’ve tried to show some I’m associated with the benefit of just sending a link but for many, sending email attachments is the default way of distributing information. I suspect this is because for them email is not just a mode of communication but also a way of filing and managing documents. This thinking is hard to counter. I’m going to copy and paste your response to this issue to my partner who has the bad habit of sending out every version of vid I send to him whether it’s ready for distribution or not. He prefers getting them this way but I’ll have to break him of the habit first and refuse to attach another vid to email.

Yeah, the hardware questions were ill advised.

I’m going to implement your suggestions now, thanks again.

Ken

[Ken Vaughn]

The solution to all of my problems should be so simple. ;o)

And, as with many topics there appears to be more than one way to arrive at the same solution. I simply selected the first keyframe, hit CRTL C and then clicked on the timeline downstream and hit CRTL V. The pan continues from the duplicate keyframe without adding more after it.

Thanks Matt,

Ken