Ryan Holmes
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You can use Quicktime Pro, Compressor, Sorenson Squeeze, or Telestream Episode to encode to 3gp. Or you can use a h.264 mp4 as your file – playable on computers, tablets, and mobile devices.
Ryan
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If you have Premiere Pro (if you bought the Production Premium bundle for After Efects/Photoshop) you can create a FLV from a timeline. You can also use any encoder product like Sorenson Squeeze or Telestream Episode to convert it (not free).
Or you can tell the person requesting a .flv that Flash is dead and they need to move onto something more cross platform compatible…like HTML5! 😉 Kidding….well…sorta kidding…
Ryan
Ryan
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Yeah it’s possible. You just need to drop your data rate on your encode. Aiming at a 100MB total for a 40 minute file I’d guess you’ll set your data rate around 200kbits/sec for your video portion and probably around 64kbits/sec for the audio. If you up one, then you’ll need to lower the other. Higher video rate = lower audio rate or vice versa.
With these data rates HD won’t be possibly (at least cleanly). If you (or your client) want HD then you’ll need to up the overall size substantially (maybe 200 or 300MB total, not 100MB).
Ryan
Ryan
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What Everest said is exactly right. You’re not doing anything wrong. That’s just inherent in the HDV codec. FCP will always break the file up when it detects a timecode start/stop.
Ryan
http://www.studio006.com
“Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.” -
It’s usually best to transcode your footage into the Apple ProRes codec. FCP7 doesn’t do well handling DSLR (h.264) footage. Any dissolves or fx will have to be immediately rendered. Unless you plan on straight cuts then you’ll need to get out of the h.264 codec and into something FCP likes.
You can transcode using Compressor or MPEG Streamclip. Bring that media back into FCP and you’re good to go.
Ryan
http://www.studio006.com
“Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.” -
Not to put more on your plate but you’re also going to want to consider the codec you render out in. The DV NTSC codec isn’t exactly know for sharp crisp edges and high quality. If you aim towards an Uncompressed codec or an Animation codec you’ll probably retain the highest quality. But keep in mind rendering in those formats creates very large files.
You also may look into rendering your timeline as an image sequence. It basically makes each frame into a still picture that you can import into virtually any editing software.
Ryan
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Mark,
There’s a couple of routes you can go:
1) Purchase an ADVC converter and ingest your DVD into FCP. This takes the signal from your DVD player and converts into Firewire so you can ingest into FCP.You can see them here:
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/349146-REG/Grass_Valley_602029_ADVC_110_Bidirectional_Media_Converter.html2) Purchase/download a DVD ripping software (i.e. DVDxDV, Handbrake, etc.). This allows you to extract the mpeg-2 and convert it into a format you can use inside of FCP (or any transcoding software).
As far as preferred internet video delivery format, I recommend Flash. It is universal as far as web browser and computer platform. Windows Media rarely works reliably on anything outside of Internet Explorer on a Windows machine (and that can even be sketchy sometimes). For 1800 videos that we offer online Flash is our choice. Quicktime is good, but not necessarily as universal as Flash. For the time being, I recommend Flash.
To convert to Flash you can use Compressor (after buying the appropriate plugin) or you can purchase a dedicated software solution like Episode by Telestream or Sorenson Squeeze to handle the transcoding.
Ryan
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We have 4 G5’s and 2 Intel macs running flawlessly off of our XSAN. If setup and maintained properly you should have no problems.
Ryan
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We edit HDV routinely on FCP 5.1.4 without any the problems you are describing. You may try the usual trash preferences routine and see if that fixes anything.
If not, a clean reinstall of the software may be what the doctor ordered.
Ryan
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Why are you working in 8bit Uncompressed and then outputting your video through iDVD (a consumer application at best!)? I echo what was said above, namely, export FCP timeline via Compressor. Encode to mpeg-2 (which allows you to control your data rate, frame rate, GOP structure, filters, field dominance, etc.) and author in DVD Studio Pro or whatever pro application you have access to.
Ryan