Marc D'agostino
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Sure, but for thomas’s purposes, h264 is in the MPEG family – so he can use it for a site that specifies it wants some form of MPEG compression. He’ll probably have to use the MP4 extension/wrapper. Is that correct? I’m not sure what are you adding here?
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Thomas:
h264 is actually MPEG4 compression, so it’s likely you can use it. Don’t know what wrapper you need to use – if you’ve tried and it hasn’t worked, that might be your issue.
You can change the bitrate and wrapper/extension in the inspector window of Compressor.
>Highlight the compression setting that you placed on the asset
>now, in the inspector window, right under the “description” field, there are 6 buttons. Second from the left is the “encoder” button. Click that.
>Change the extension if you want
>Set your bitrate by clicking video: SETTINGS. A window will pop up to allow you to do this.
>You can also change your frame size using the geometry button – a smaller frame size at the same bitrate will yield better quality at that size (though there are diminishing returns as the video gets smaller).
>Also, multi-pass process will always yield better results.
Hope this helps. In the future, there are plenty of video and text-based tutorials for the button pushing needed to accomplish these type of tasks – just plug your question into google and you’re bound to get many good results.
Best,
Marc -
Thanks, Ivan. I used Adobe Encoder, at roughly the bitrates (1.2 and 2.4) that you suggested. I cheated a little, upped them slightly and made slightly bigger files (and of course audio takes up some MBs, so I had to put that into the equation).
Changing the stream compatibility to “standard” did seem to help the quality more than expected, so thanks for that tip. I got acceptable results, so problem more or less solved…
I do wish we could attain better quality at 720 for feature length and keep the file around 1GB than it seems we can do these days. Anything new coming down the pike as far as compression codecs go?
Thanks!
M