[Simon Matthews]

Hi, I’ve made the yellow colour vanish now by clicking on the pencil icon to the right of the curves graph. Not sure how this happened but it’s solved now, at least I hope 🙂

[Simon Matthews]

Ok, thanks man. So I have an uncompressed file and I’ve loaded it into Quicktime Pro. Which format do I then choose?

Thanks.

[Simon Matthews]

Hey, I’ve just got the yellow colour to disappear by clicking on the pencil icon to the right of the Curves graph. Not sure what this is for but it did the trick?

[Simon Matthews]

Hi,

I don’t know if this is a coincidence, but since I downloaded the Avid DNxHD codec I have had a problem with After Effects. I have a layer with a curves adjustment with the blue channel set very high. I’ve gone back and fore to this project for the past few days with no issues, but since this afternoon the layer with the curves adjustment has become corrupt, with an unwanted yellow colour present. It was not present when I last saved the project but is now present on loading the project. I have included a screenshot of the issue, hopefully it will be visible in the picture. I’ve tried adding a new curves effect, with the same unwanted results. Do you have any idea what could be causing this?

Thanks,

Simon.

[Simon Matthews]

Hi,

Thanks for the reply. Though I have followed Jeff’s advice and downloaded the Avid DNxHD codec, I would also like to try your advice to see how it works. I already have Quicktime Pro. How do I use this to compress the edited video? Do I have to export it from Premiere first as an uncompressed file? I feel silly, but how do I do this? I’ve just moved from Pro CS3 to Pro CS5, and Pro CS5 doesn’t have the ‘export movie’ option, so I’m a bit lost.

Thanks,

Simon.

[Simon Matthews]

Hi,

Thanks, this is great advice! I’ve already downloaded the Avid DNxHD codec and it seems to have worked well. The file size is now 500Mb with a bitrate of 135,198Kbps, which is much closer than what I had achieved before now. Hopefully the client will be happy with those figures.

About the H.264 format – I noticed that there is a format called H.264 and also a codec called H.264 (found further down in the media encoder) which can be used with the Quicktime format. Are both of these bad? I find the subject of formats and codecs a bit confusing! There are so many of them!

Thanks,

Simon.

[Simon Matthews]

Hi,

Well I’m glad you mentioned it because I would’ve kept on making my pages any old size otherwise, and since compressing the images on the Design page it has definitely speeded up the loading of the page, which is always a good thing! So thanks for that! 🙂

Simon.

[Simon Matthews]

Hi,

Yes, thank you, that makes sense. I just found a website that diagnoses webpages and according to their diagnostic tool my homepage is now 94Kb, so that’s good. However, Video Copilot’s homepage is 718Kb, 7 times more than the recommendation! 🙂

Simon.

[Simon Matthews]

Hi again,

I’ve reduced the number of pictures in my homepage gallery to 3 and made them into smaller JPegs to try to reduce the size of the page. I was thinking about the recommendations you made and decided to check out a page by the very popular and successful Video Copilot. Some of their pages seem very large with lots and lots of images. I was wondering if you could tell me how large the Video Copilot tutorials page was and whether or not the page is within the suggested guidelines you mentioned as I’m not sure how to check the size of a page? Here is a link to the page:

https://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/

Thanks,

Simon.

[Simon Matthews]

Hi,

Ok, cool, thanks for the tips. Was shocked to find how much larger than average my page was! Will shrink those images down a bit and choose just a few for the homepage instead of 12. I’ll probably end up designing another site from scratch anyway, it was only intended to be for practice, but might as well keep it available as being as it’s done!

Thanks again for the tips and for your time!

Simon.