[Marty Watt]

Gee, I used VP up to 13, and it was a huge work around to get text to scroll up?

[Marty Watt]

Thank you. I am surprised that info on this is not readily available. Facebook recommends 30 fps (yes, I mean the actual number: 29 something) but doesn’t address the effect of increasing the frame rate of video shot in 23 or if they somehow bump the video up from 23 to 30. Odd, since so many digital cameras shoot in 23 (I image – so do many smart phones) and these must be a huge percentage of what gets uploaded to Facebook.
What happens to the quality of a video – Facebook upload or not – when the framerate is increased?

[Marty Watt]

Thanks Jeff, First: Nah, I’m not trying to save storage space: (good if so – but) it’s that I can’t compile and work on a sequence with out the program : Adobe Premiere CS3 running out of system resources. I just shoot low quality – Sony point & shoot vids at our local dog park ( Ayora Valencia, Spain ) then make quick little videos ( 2, maybe 4 minutes long ) and post on my website (dotfur, google it : comes right up) or my youtube site or facebook page… I started messing around with LONG takes where I commented on all the different social connections among the dogs… then : I decided to make a video featuring the 3 pit bull puppy girls growing up together at this time at the park….. some of the LONG takes contained good moments of the puppy girls that I wanted… the moments might be 16 MB in total but were in a take that could be 350MB … I’d import the take … select the moment that I wanted… but soon imported take after imported take … the resources were all used up…. now : I’m selecting from the “in point – out point” on the monitor – not timeline… exporting… microsoft avi (not the “uncompressed”) etc… still trying to figure right codec? “quality? “data rate” .. then re – importing (or – it’s already there) getting rid of the first version of the LONG take ….. and now the program is only carrying a nice little (maybe) 8 MB clip instead of a 350MB clip (from which I only needed a small moment)
I’m in total … financial… desperation… so: even the $70. is too much for me…. am here with just my wee laptop…. with the over heating CPU…. and tons of videos… and photos taking up every MB of harddrive space.

Thanks… (millions!) Jeff

Marty

[Marty Watt]

Great stuff, Jon! 1st.) wish there had been someway to know or learn quicker that the AVI files from memory cards , made on wee point & shoots etc…are compressed: oh well: live and learn…… 2nd. ) yes, I finaly stumbled my way onto the export from work monitor (not timeline) , select “from point in to point out”) way to get only the bit of a clip that I want…… 3Rd.) and finally got to the concept of : Microsoft AVI (not the “uncompressed”) …. 4th. ) for some reason I went with the Cine – something by radius….. as the compressor… 30 fr sec…. 5th. ) I think I should have used the Microsoft….. 5th. ) what “quality ” on slider and what “keep data rate” ….. select “recompress” or not? I used the “cine somethin/ radius” which gave a “quality ” of 100% .. but the Microsoft is showing 75% on the slider…. I don’t want the data rate to be higher than the original – do I ?

Thanks so much again,

Marty

[Marty Watt]

Thanks. No, I don’t know if it’s uncompressed. Little AVI thing from little sony point & shoot. 640 x 480 30 ft sec. Why isn’t that stated somewhere? Do you think that it IS compressed , and then somehow the Premiere set on uncompressed avi is UNCOMPRESSING something? Other thing what would be a “quality” setting. (slider) high low etc… HELP is very unclear on that.

Thanks again,

marty

[Marty Watt]

Yes, I’ve been trying out a lot of different editors: Video Pad, Adobe… now: Vegas… which looked good because it was nice and smaller for my laptop: but The Titler just stunned me: worse than anything I’ve seen. Totally wasn’t expecting that to be the weakness. Very sad. Bizarre actually.