[Lawrence Eaton]

David,

Many thanks for helping to get my mind into gear today. Apologies as well.

Technical side of the equation:
Data comes to me as 24bit (True colour)
photo-jpeg at 1024×768 res
30fps
uncompressed audio
32000Hz 8bit mono.

I’m using FCP 6.04 with Compressor 3.03.
FCP for editing and then (Option 1)I’ve exported to Quicktime conversion to MPEG4;
(Option 2)To compressor to create MPEG4
(Option 3)File>export>Quicktime; then import to compressor and output as standard apple setting for MPEG4

This morning, I ‘cooked’ a sample and though large-ish, the quality was much better – but, to be perfectly honest, I was getting two kids off to school and forgot which settings were which before one of them quit Compressor.

Size of movie: 800×600 would be acceptable or should I say, satisfactory but 1024×768 would be so much better.

Other than that, I am in your hands, David.

Many thanks,

Lawrence Eaton

[Lawrence Eaton]

Don,

Many thanks. I will wake up my mind in the next hour and nurse my lips away from my coffee cup and try what you mention! Oh hell, it is morning!

Many thanks,

Lawrence Eaton

[Lawrence Eaton]

Tom,

Worked a treat. Many thanks.. I was about to turn blue with the blustering and flustering…

Lawrence

Lawrence Eaton

[Lawrence Eaton]

Tom,
Sorry, I was caught up in the fervor of writing!

The question is: Why is it taking FCP/compressor nearly 2 hours to build a m4v? That is only 10 mins long?
Initially after I export I get the dialogue that tells me 22 mins – which is great… this rapidly goes to over an hour and keeps climbing.

Could it be set up? Caching? ghosts in the machine? When I first built Mov’s and m4v’s it took 35 mins. Is it because I have a 4meg motn file as an intro and extro?

Maybe it’s because I’m just merely stupid – and I am more than willing to accept that from someone in the know.

Many thanks and apologies,

Lawrence

[Lawrence Eaton]

Don, thank you for your reply. I smacked myself about the head a couple of times last night about what you noted.

I’m also looking for something inside FCP to embed, say, a hyperlink and a graphic (that I can cobble together in Motion) so that it looks like one of those annoying ads you get on the TV popping up from the bottom of the screen. If the user clicks on it, it will send them to a webpage in their browser or ideally, I wonder if Quicktime supports browsing in the app itself?

Many thanks in anticipation,

Lawrence Eaton

[Lawrence Eaton]

Capt’n Mench,

Many thanks for that direction! I’ll take a shot at it and see what happens.

Regards

Lawrence Eaton

[Lawrence Eaton]

I don’t know what you’re entire production workflow is so it’s hard to advise you. You have should some video material in some format that I don’t understand with some camera and you used Camtasia to do screen captures. I don’t know Camtasia so I don’t know what options you have to save your material. You need to bring the media into FCP in a ormat that’s as close to your production format as possible, and then work from there.

You really should get someone who knows FCP to come in set this up for you if you are inexperienced with the application.

Tom,
My apologies. Our workflow goes something like this.
Demonstrations of a software product are captured via Camtasia that natively outputs to AVI format.
Camtasia can produce WMV, AVI, MOV, RM, M4v, FLV, SWF – but to a limited ability.
There is no camera involved.
At this time, I am exporting out of Camtasia at 1024×768 in QuickTime using H264 codec.
I then import into FCP and render both the audio and video.
We’d like to output at either: 1024×768 or we have just had permission to output at Highdef 1080i60.
Is there any other information that might be helpful?

Lawrence Eaton

[Lawrence Eaton]

Tom,
HELP, please. What would be the best setting for production to media streaming from the web?
Every aspect of FCP is proving to be invaluable for my company’s needs – now that I’ve smacked a few ppl around the head – but it’s become apparent to me that I could do with some sort of assistance/ help in my settings.

Any direction would be valuable!

Lawrence Eaton

[Lawrence Eaton]

Tom,

This is where I was lost, I believe.

Settings as current are:
Frame size: 1920×1080 HDTV 1080i (16:9)
Field dominance: Lower (even)
Video processing: Render in 8-bitYUV
Quicktime video settings:
Compressor: HDV 1080i60
Quality @ 100%
Audio: 48kHz
Depth: 16-bit
Config: Channel Grouped

Anything else?

Regards

Lawrence Eaton

[Lawrence Eaton]

Tom,

The final output must be WMV – for some asinine reason. however, the customer is willing to look at using either Flash or QT.

Regards,

Lawrence Eaton