[Michelle Ngo]

Brian thanks for your reply and sorry for the delay.

We survived and I needed a huge break from the whole thing.

I would love to take up on your offer. I am about to leave again for a week, but this workflow thing really has me scratching my head because I so want to use Compressor instead of QT Conversion as it will allow me to keep working on FCP as it compresses in the background.

Can you email me at mynogo@yahoo.com and I can give you all the ftp info.

Thanks.

Michelle

[Michelle Ngo]

I did more test and I am still lost.

Do you have an email that I can send you samples of the final output that I have from doing both the QT Conversion from FCP and from Compressor.

The QT Conversion is far superior no matter what I do in Compressor. The colors are more native to what I have in FCP and also the text look way crisper.

But due to the amount of footage I am getting, I really would prefer to be able to batch export stuff in FCP and then run all through compressor.

Let me know what I am doing wrong, but when you look at my samples it is very clear one is better than the other.

Thanks.

Michelle

[Michelle Ngo]

Thanks…in the beginning, I was telling him that my recommendation was 768×432 but he said it would off balance his webdesign. I told him photoshop and video work differently because of the scanning lines, etc…but his head was spinning.

Not much to a design if you got crappy video as the focal part of the site.

I’ll battle it out again. I’m still peeved about the 4 different cameras for the next two weeks.

[Michelle Ngo]

Yes, I thought so. I was trying to explain to the web developer guy that it has to be divisible by 8 because I thought that the dimensions seem wrong but he said he used this aspect ratio conversion thing to give him those values. It’s here:

https://www.digitalrebellion.com/aspect_calc.htm

What should I tell him?

Thanks

[Michelle Ngo]

John,

Thanks for your post. I knew that the player was off because I vaguely remembered needed it to be divisible by 4. I was telling them that the dimensions were off but the web designer said that they checked up on various Aspect Ratio Calculators such as the one below:

https://www.digitalrebellion.com/aspect_calc.htm

I’ll give it another go. Thanks again.

M

[Michelle Ngo]

One more thing…this is my machine:

Mac 2x3Ghz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
Memory: 8 GB
Running: Mac OS X 10.5.7 (Leopard)

Versions of software:
Sorensen Squeeze 5
Adobe Media Encoder from CS4

Media going in:

Some flv files, other mainly QT files that were directly exported out of projects cut (most likely DVCPro)

Desired out: 2 kinds of .flv files (300K, 500K) … I think I’ve got to put my foot down and say this is incredibly impossible machine power and time wise. Plus I don’t think our web developers are going to finish this option in the media hub they are creating.

Destination: stored for archive on a G-raid Hard Drive, but also posted on an ftp site.

[Michelle Ngo]

Sorry Craig, I’ll be more specific.

We are doing a mix of live and on-demand web video cast for two weeks. There are going to be 5 different cameras that are hooked via firewire to a mini-Mac which will feed out to our webcast provider via ethernet at a time. Simultaneously, we will also record the media. This is all a tapeless workflow we are doing.

Here are the six cameras with the medium the footage will be stored before transfer to the drives:

3 – Panasonic HVX-200 (p2 cards)
1 – Panasonic AG-HPX300 (p2 cards)
1 – JVC GY-HM700 (SDHC memory cards)
1 – Sony HVR-z5u

So for me it is already a workflow nightmare with all the different media formats. I didn’t chose them, the producer who hired the shooters and then passes the info down to me. Plus, I think feeding out in HD is out of the question for sure even though that is what the guy upstairs want.

So while much of it is going live, things have to go on-demand in a quick turnaround. Also there will be a lot of quick news style cutting for daily wrap-ups. Oh did I mention, I have to also put lower thirds on a lot of this video?

Also, I’m thinking realistically my computer just can’t churn out as much media as the guy upstairs is hoping to churn out…he’s talking about 8-10 hours of footage everyday…yikes!

I hope that clarifies some things.

By the way, I’ve met you before at some of the Mopictive meetings. Mike Vitti speaks highly of you…may he rest in peace.

I have been testing out Sorensen Squeeze 5 and Adobe Media Encoder on a Mac to figure out which is the fastest at the acceptable quality from the big boss upstairs. I know that Sorensen allows to trim heads and tails and adds fades in & out, so that will help get the pre-recorded flv files out the door faster, but when I put QT in Adobe Media Encoder on the Mac it is significantly faster than when I put that same QT through Sorensen Squeeze.

We are churning out a lot of video everyday for two weeks.

As for the editors babysitting, it more like waiting around for files to finish to post after done…they are more assistant editors if anything.

There seems to be a lot of toys, but at the end of the day if I can’t deliver on time, that would suck.

[Michelle Ngo]

When you say networked, there are about 3 different computers were we all can connect each to each other via airport, so if that is what you are talking about yes, we are networked in that way.

But we are not like on an X-san.

Do I have to trash all the preferences to all the computers that have FCP? Do I trash the whole preference folder for FCP or the subfolders in there? Let me know.

Thanks for the quick answer.

[Michelle Ngo]

Thanks for all your replies.

I think I am not being clear. I want to include a screenshot of the website to be in my film. What I use for place holder purposes, I take a screenshot of the website that makes it a still photo. But when I put the photo into my timeline and resize it, it looks really horrible.

With PhotoProZoom, is it a free download or how much does it actually costs? Is there a free trial? We are on tight budget that is all.

Thanks again