[Rick Warda]

I had the same issue.
My Sony FX1 shoots in 1080i Not progressive, so I was leary about setting my project to progressive. I left it 1080-60i (1440 x 1080)
HDV. UpperField.

I had the “Stair Stepping” and “Streaking” look no matter what I rendered at. I wanted the best quality for DVD regardless if I had to wait 24 hours for a 1hr real-time render.

What I did was render to the best .wmv 8bit using project size & best.
But the magic key was bringing up my Super Sampling to “2” on the video bus channel or better yet “3” if you have the render time to spare.

This also takes care of the “Twinkling” effect you get when you put high-res still photos on your timeline that may not be even close to your project or render settings.

Not sure if this is the orthodox solution, but it seemed to work for me.

Rick W.

[Rick Warda]

No Problem Daniel,
Calm down. When I said the “new codecs in CS4” I was referring to the new .f4v file format.
I’m not sure, but I assumed it was a new codec. And I didn’t come from CS3, so I figured it was new to CS4.
Since you appear to know a great deal about this, maybe you can help me.
I’ve asked my Adobe VAR Rep and he couldn’t tell me the difference between an .flv or .f4v ?
Which is better? is one better? why could you just change the file extension of a .f4v to .flv and it still works?
I heard .f4v was engineered more for streaming, but I found no support writings on this.

Cheers,
Rick

Rick W.

[Rick Warda]

You are only half correct with your statement:
“Bottom line is that Flash is not the right format to use if you want to do this sort of thing.”

Being that for years flash video was “Progressive Only” your statement is correct. Progressive being, it downloads the .flv into your cache however it appears to be streaming because the user can start playing the video as soon as enough is there to watch, and keep watching provide the download is quicker than the play speed (which was we know isn’t always the case even with HiSpeed)

Now there is “Flash Media Server” (cost just under $1000 street price) that allows true streaming of .flv files. your host may already have it, in time, most will. now one wont have to wait for downloaded content in order to play, in fact the user good go right to the end of a movie instantly. Files aren’t cached therefore an extra security measure is takin. There’s also a hi-end interactive server version which allows streaming up and down (hence live broadcasts) And with the new codecs in CS4 I finally can say the video looks as good or better than quicktime or wmv of similar file sizes. Its a beautiful thing! 🙂

Rick W.