[Robert Dulfer]

Dennis, thanks for the reply. My problem is I started video editing about 10 years ago during a project (not PR projects but “normal” projects) our non-profit did for the Czech Ministry of Environment. At that time, I did not pay enough attention to storage and file locations. As result, I have all the media cache on my C: drive (also SSD, only as OS drive) and the rest on a slow WD green drive and some on a quicker WD blue drive.

Since then, I did a few times some other editing but the last five years that work got snowed under.

Now I am starting again, and want to have things organized like you have, all together on a fast disk.

However, PR opens up and always wants a new or existing project opened, I cannot get it to open just as a blank space. So I can change locations in one project at the time, but not the entire PR work folder.

So how to move the PR folder in one go to the new SSD and collecting the other saving and media cache locations in the same move? Is that possible at all?

One option, probably the simplest, would be to leave the media cache and cache files on C: (also a quick SSD) and only move the rest to the second SSD. And then just leave everything in the folder as it is until I open a PR project. If it starts shout for a missing file, I can go looking for it. Not ideal, but probably the best, or are there other solutions?

[Robert Dulfer]

Dear Kris,

Thanks for the reply. The host is not the problem, they can handle the different formats and file sizes and some of the videos are already running there. If too big or too many video’s for my allocated bandwidth and space, I can shift to a bigger hosting package, but it will cost me.

Example I work on now: 3 min video, from a source clip with 720×576 (pixel ratio 1,0940) 25fps, 48 khz stereo.

If I use the presets like youtube SD, I still get large files around 50 mb. I tweaked those settings to copy the source clip, and exported with below 1 mbps(lousy result). Than tweaked several other things, each time exporting and comparing. Sometimes a 5 mb file gives better results than a 20 mb file, but why?

Off course from those earlier accidental good results I forgot to write down the exact settings, especially bit rates. This way, I am spending a lot of time figuring out what to change and what effect that has and still getting nowhere and missing a lot of basic knowledge. So inventing the wheel again.

The nice thing of those line of CC tutorials is that they explain why and what to do when. Or what NOT to do. Or whatever. I was hoping one would exists also concerning exporting but no luck so far.

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[Robert Dulfer]

Thanks,

I now realize I was rendering in places where it really was not necessary and my PC is quick enough not to need any preview files to speed up things.

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[Robert Dulfer]

Just learned it works on a blackberry several years old. Since I did not ask my son earlier to try it, don’t know if this was working all the time, or just the latest update in the css and htaccess files or the newer version of the video with different export settings. Whatever.

All the necessary AddType mime for video were there, but I added a few extra. Maybe the 4 year old Nokia 5800 xpressmusic and the same age E52 are just too old or I have wrong settings, don’t know. However, if I cannot get a video playing on my phone, chances are big my target group will not either, so we’ll keep looking for a clean way to handle this.

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[Robert Dulfer]

I put the .3gp first on this page, because most mobile phones are supposed to support 3gp. For normal desktop browser use, the mp4 comes first, because IE has problems if mp4 is not first. Other browsers ignore the format they cannot play until they come to a format they can handle or – as do the mobile devices – come to the alternate text “your browser does not support tag or format”. I made a second page with mp4 first, but at least my phone still no dice.

The video is about 2 Mb in size, H264 – Mpeg4 AVC with resolution 320×240, frame rate 16 fps, bit rate around 1 mbps.

I think there may be another problem here. When I check one youtube video I could play on my mobile, I noticed that it did not have a https:// address but an rtsp:// URL. Quick check showed that rtsp has something to do with streaming live video, so maybe that is part of the problem.

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[Robert Dulfer]

Unfortunately, I don’t have a real DVD player, only PC players.

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[Robert Dulfer]

You should actually make two websites since both media work completely different.

1) one for “normal use” for customers-vistors using PCs. This is the site you already have. It has the normal headers and footers and navigation and body text. Impossible to read or figure out easily on a mobile phone.

2) make one dedicated for your mobile visitors. This one should have minimal layout and navigation that is very easy to handle on a small screen. MOst important, it should fit all different types of mobile Operating Systems and of screen sizes. I now start trying to figure out how to work with fluid grids that automatically adapt my content and especially videos and images to exactly fit almost all screen sizes of most of the mobile phones.

As to the mobile site, it just is in a sub-folder under my main site (for example: /m). In this folder, I start again as if it was a root-level. That is, special css for mobile part, different images, smaller videos etc etc.

As example:
Czech friends normal

Czech friends video for mobile

I have not managed to make the video work on my phones, but I am getting there; that is a video problem, not a mobile website problem. When you write the URL in a mobile phone, you will get the alternate text (if you get the video, let me know with which phone).

You see the difference when opening both in a normal web browser. On both pages, right-click on the page and look at the source code. The normal page has a lot of coding there, the mobile one has almost nothing.

A good site for info on how to design websites and coding etc is webmasterworld.com. I have posted there as well with this problem

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[Robert Dulfer]

I started to look into the html5 video stuff and also the rest of html5. It is time to clean up and update our websites anyway, might as well do it good.

I uploaded two videos to our websites already in testing the hosting and embedding effects. These are simple videos for our museum, not the videos I am working on for the project. I used the tag to embed them, and have several formats of the videos so that they will play across all browsers.

My remaining problem now is how to make those videos playing on mobile phones. I have one webpage that is not within the page navigation of the site but is designed to be accessed by mobile phones. It is coded to handle all video formats and the first is a .3gp format especially for mobile phones.

Link: https://czechfriends.org/embed/m-ww.php I have written out the URL so you can try it on your phone as well. I tried with two Nokia smart phones, but they do not play the video, only display the alternative text “your browser does not support …” . The video does play without problem on the phone when copied there through directly from the PC, so the players are there and working.

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[Robert Dulfer]

Most telling for me, but maybe I am wrong: video is playing in VLC. When opening tools while playing and then going into media info-statistics or codec info-statistics, it shows both video AND audio being decoded and played or displayed, and you see the block numbers going up. I would say that this means there is some kind of audio on that media.

I rechecked the final version, and to me it sounds there are at least three audio tracks
1 original sounds matching the behavior of the animals: otter eating fish and sounds match the eating movements and diving of the otter into the water. Then the music in some places accompanying it and on top of that the narrator.

I know where those shots were taken and these are the real sounds. I think it was taken with a directional shotgun mic on the camera, although sometimes he uses a separate parabolic disc mounted mic as well. So I presume that the raw material includes footage with matching sounds. I cannot imagine why he would gave the raw material for first view to the office ordering it (the main person being a personal friend of him who I know also well) deliberately omitting the sound. Only reason I can see is to protect his material, but the time code is burned in as well, so that would be double careful for a disk which is personal and private anyway

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[Robert Dulfer]

Negative answer also helps. I was wondering why the empty folder was on the final dvd at all. I was already imagining that there might be a script stating that “if Audio_TS is empty, use….”, causing a problem if the Audio folder is not there. So I can cross that off as well. Thanks. Let’s hope that somebody comes up with a solution.

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