Rich Rubasch
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OMG all that code was hurting my head. DiskCatalog Maker is what I have used since 2001. Cheap, simple, elegant. perfect.
Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
Video Production, Post, Studio Sound Stage
Founder/President/Editor/Designer/Animator
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Encode to 1280 x 720 and don’t look back.
Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
Video Production, Post, Studio Sound Stage
Founder/President/Editor/Designer/Animator
https://www.tiltmedia.com -
Even so….I don’t care if YouTube supports 4k…if it doesn’t play back it isn’t impressing anyone. Depending on length anything above 8mbts/sec is pretty ambitious for a general audience like YouTube. And I guarantee you that if you encode to 1280 x 720 and it plays back perfectly and looks stunning you will be the hero.
If your clip won’t play back you won’t be the one encoding the next one for that client!
Check your own monitor settings…most basic laptops or desktop LCD panels don’t even support full 1920 x 1080 so they are either scaled DOWN or the edges get cropped..whats the point of that?
I’m on a PC laptop right now and my monitors max resolution is 1388 x 768 so 1920 x 1080 is way overkill. My 15 inch MacBook is 1440 x 900 at it’s max resolution. Since many of us are starting to watch more and more video on a smart phone or an iPad 960 x 540 is a pretty good portable easily streamed by the general public frame size.
I’m merely suggesting that you don’t necessarily equate the largest frame size that is POSSIBLE with the frame size that is APPROPRIATE for the application. Again try it at 1280 x 720 at about 5000kbps and let us know what you think about the quality and playback.
Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
Video Production, Post, Studio Sound Stage
Founder/President/Editor/Designer/Animator
https://www.tiltmedia.com -
What is your frame size of the H264? You Tube does not display anything larger than 1280 x 720 and there is not much reason to anyway. Actually the iPad uses an HD frame size of 960 x 540 and it holds up even on blowups to larger screens.
I will not watch a video that studders because the compressionist was more concerned about precious resolution than smooth playback. Smooth playback trumps detail in every pixel every time.
Try 1280 x 720 at about 5000kbps with Apple lossless audio at 192kbps….running at 23.976 this should be butter and look great.
Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
Video Production, Post, Studio Sound Stage
Founder/President/Editor/Designer/Animator
https://www.tiltmedia.com -
I think most of the replies missed the point. It’s not so much what monitor he is using but how the same video looks different from FCP to H264. I blame Squeeze.
Try doing a simple encode to H264 using Quicktime or compressor and compare it to the Squeeze output. My guess is you will find which software does a better job of matching the source in FCP.
BTW, like you, I have been able to calibrate my desktop computer monitors and laptop monitors to very nearly match our broadcast monitors within a very small margin of error. I have had other editors comment how they have never seen the computer match the broadcast monitor so closely, but we work at it. I think it is Squeeze causing the issue.
Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
Video Production, Post, Studio Sound Stage
Founder/President/Editor/Designer/Animator
https://www.tiltmedia.com -
Travelers gets the video industry….look for your local business insurance company who reps Travelers. Also the Hartford is in the same game, so either one.
I have found that Travelers is a little better at customer service and getting me the certificates promptly.
Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
Video Production, Post, Studio Sound Stage
Founder/President/Editor/Designer/Animator
https://www.tiltmedia.com -
I work magic in FCP with a keyed green screen interview from AE over a background in FCP….and if the client wants a different background I can simply edit it in FCP. We also fly things behind the interview that change at the last minute so the only way to work efficiently is to have a pre-keyed clip in FCP and the ProRes 4444 is a thing of beauty.
Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
Video Production, Post, Studio Sound Stage
Founder/President/Editor/Designer/Animator
https://www.tiltmedia.com -
I use regular DVD-R for under 30 minutes. Burn one and take it down to Best Buy and try it in all the players. I haven’t missed yet.
I have found that Toast encodes just fine for what we have done so far.
Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
Video Production, Post, Studio Sound Stage
Founder/President/Editor/Designer/Animator
https://www.tiltmedia.com -
In 10 years I have never had anything but Raid 0 arrays. Every computer in our shop has a two-drive internal Raid 0 and an additional drive for projects, Photoshop elements, etc. The Raid 0 is ONLY used for the actual FCP scratch disc, and everything on those drives can either be reuploaded from tapes or brought in from our Footage backup drives. IN that scenarios we don’t see a need for the extra overhead and space hogging Raid 5, and I have never had a Raid 5 go down….ten years running.
Also, be sure your After Effects and FCP autosave points to a different drive than the project drive so if the project drive goes down there is another copy of your current work.
With this in mind you can have an internal system drive, a large Projects and associated elements drive, and a two-drive RAID 0 to handle the footage. Even if the Raid 0 blows up you should still easily be able to get back to work with minimum effort from the source tapes or backed up footage.
If you are still afraid of losing everything, a firewire 800 drive with a backup of all that stuff would be sufficient.
Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
Video Production, Post, Studio Sound Stage
Founder/President/Editor/Designer/Animator
https://www.tiltmedia.com -
My FIRST option would be to buy Toast 11, drag your self contained movie to the toast video window with Blu-Ray selected, insert a blank BluRay disc into a Firewire BluRay drive (Lacie makes one) and click burn.
Wait about an hour and blammo, you have a BluRay disc.
Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
Video Production, Post, Studio Sound Stage
Founder/President/Editor/Designer/Animator
https://www.tiltmedia.com