[Rafael August]

Thanks for the info Tom that helps.

[Rafael August]

they need the original files to compress to .flvs. They don’t want me to do the compression so save money.

[Rafael August]

my question is, is there a way for the windows machine to read a quicktime file with the dvc pro hd codec? I know I can use the ProRes codec and they will be able to read the file but that takes much longer for me to export in compressor and I’m trying to avoid that step by just exporting from the export quicktime movie function from the file menu.

[Rafael August]

David,

I did that originally but I’m trying to find the fastest export to keep their cost down. I’m dealing with hundreds of videos and the quicktime movie export is 10 times faster then compressing to ProRes.

Is there anyway to get the windows machine to read the quicktime files with the dvcpro hd codec?

[Rafael August]

Thanks, I’ll give that a try. Sorry for the late response got knocked out by the flu.

[Rafael August]

Sorry. I didn’t see it before I posted it. But YES! the canvas to 100% was the trick. I feel pretty stupid. It was set to 99.

Thanks guys.

[Rafael August]

Hi Chris,

I tried the pro res and 8 bit codec but there was no change. When I view the movie in the viewer it looks much better than when I get it into the time line. Any other suggestions?

Thanks,

Rafael

[Rafael August]

That’s exactly what it is. It’s a qt reference movie. It doesn’t give all the info you asked for when I get info on the file. Only duration which is 44 seconds and size which is 36 KB (33,035 bytes). I guess I was in the ballpark after all I just didn’t know it was a qt reference movie. When I converted it into a self-contained it was 3.1 MB.

Thank you so much for clearing all this up.

Rafael

[Rafael August]

Hi Daniel

I guess we are talking about file size and data rate.

Your equation makes perfect sense to me but I still feel mixed up on a lot of levels right now. I’m looking at a quicktime movie that is 30 seconds in length, has a frame size of 480×360 which is taking up 25 kb of memory on my hard disc( I’m assuming this is KiloBytes). It was compressed with the h264 and AAC codecs. The video looks great. I would like to get my files to look as good and have a file size that is similar.

It seems impossible right now unless I somehow download the compression expert setting into my brain.

Rounded out my question is, what is their data rate setting that gets such great results, has such reasonable frame sizes, that yields crisp video and a small file sizes?

Thank you for your time,

Rafael

[Rafael August]

Hi Daniel,

I tried reducing the frame size to 320/240 for a standard def file that I have and turning the frame controls on. I restricted the video to 500kbs/sec with the encoder set to hi. My results are files still in the 1mb range. I would like to get down to the 50kb range. I have friends who are directing spots for well known commercial companies and they have these beautifully compressed clips with a frame size of 480×360 and a file size of 25-50 kbs. Below is the setting summary from compressor.

Is there anything else I could try.

Thanks for your help.

Rafael

File Extension: mov
Estimated file size: 393.73 KB
Audio Encoder
AAC, Stereo (L R), 48.000 kHz
Video Encoder
Format: QT
Width: 320
Height: 240
Pixel aspect ratio: NTSC CCIR 601/DV
Crop: None
Padding: None
Frame rate: 29.97
Frame Controls On:
Retiming: (Fast) Nearest Frame
Resize Filter: Linear Filter
Deinterlace Filter: Fast (Line Averaging)
Adaptive Details: On
Antialias: 0
Detail Level: 0
Field Output: Same as Source
Codec Type: H.264
Multi-pass: On, frame reorder: On
Pixel depth: 24
Spatial quality: 75
Min. Spatial quality: 50
Key frame interval: 150
Temporal quality: 50
Min. temporal quality: 50
Average data rate: 500 (Kbps)
Fast Start: on