Randall Murphy
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Oh, okay. I will be shooting against greenscreen with three point lighting with backlight to pull the talent off the background. Then replace the background with absolute black…nice even pixels 🙂 That should cut down on the render size…now just to figure out how they streamed/loaded the video and i’m set. thanks for your help
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Thanks Lars, that’s the answer I was looking for. I do get really good results with my DVX-100B and I’d like to for production time and ease sake, keep the equipment I’ve got now. So, during rendering, if nothing changes, i.e. static black background, it helps to shrink the output file size. That’s great. What did you mean, “an edge to define his body” would that be a mask?
The h.264 codec, I hear works on the latest flash player, how do you make the render so it uses this codec?
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Thanks Darby.
Since I’ll probably be compressing it big time, would I still be better off with HD?
Have you seen the video on apple.com on the iphone page. The guy in the black with the black background? It’s amazing the quality and it streams really fast. Any idea how they did it? SD or HD? Compression? Streaming or nonstreaming?
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I did uncompressed AVI and same results…would animation AVI be different? What is mjpeg? Is that a rendering option in AE?
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Heh, didn’t realize you’re out of Toronto. I spent two months there (several visits) last year. I’ve got a client in Brampton. Beautiful city. I’m in San Diego CA.
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windows media player. I’ve got the movie being compressed to avi now. I want to see how it will play in quicktime. Funny thing is this is probably a blessing. The Director file might end up being a better tool. My clients I sent the first draft to, many of them didn’t even watch it yet. But, if i have something they can load right on thier computers at the office, they might have a greater impulse to watch it right then and there…the convenience. Plus, I can have links to my website. HOpefully, it will have a high quality output.
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It looks just the same. Skin tones are blown out and it looks awful. I don’t know what others are doing, but this is my first project and it’s really dissapointing. The mpeg2 shrunk down to 2 gigs and it looks great. Even when I used this file and put it into Encore with no transcoding, it looked the same. It looks the same on two different computers and my television. Oh well. Since it’s a marketing piece, I’m thinking about droping it into macromedia director and see how that goes.
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Hopefully, I get good results with what I’m doing now. When I rendered the movie originally, it was at lossless video for windows setting. To me it looked better than lossless AVI. This may be the problem. I keep seeing posts about making lossless AVI’s. So, I’ve just rendered the movie (the original windows for video rendered to 52 gigs, the AVI to 72 gigs.) Right now I’m taking a run at Encore encoding it at high qual. 1 pass C 8mb. Next, I’ll try 2 pass V and compare. I tried to load it into sorenson squeeze, the movie file went into the project window, but the hourglass just sat there, and the hard drive wasn’t doing anything. Dunno about that one. If I can get sorensen to work, I’ll go for a high qual mpeg2 and compare again. Hopefully, it’s the switch to AVI that will do it. Kind of frustrating to spend three months, 12 hour days on something that looks great, you’re pumped and then major dissapointment. Thanks for the advice. I really appreciate it.
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Of course I did, but I’m in a hurry, and have you looked in that forum? Very few posts and even fewer answers. Everyone from this forum knows about burning to DVD’s. Another guy had my SAME problem back in early August and no replies.
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I’ve got the same issues. Did you get any answers????