[Steve Brame]

Take a look at the page now. I ‘m using the JW Player, and I’ve got it’s dimensions set to 480 x 360…the exact dimensions of the video frame size. Black bars on both sides.

Steve Brame
creative illusions Productions
VODSouth

[Steve Brame]

Hate that the Squeeze setting export grays out if it’s H.264.

Steve Brame
creative illusions Productions
VODSouth

[Steve Brame]

Unfortunately, I’m transcoding DVD’s for which there are no original source files to alter the graphics with, so the blue must remain. I think my second issue is that I’m compressing a compressed file, which can generally lead to problems in itself. I’ve been trying different settings this morning, and I seem to get the best results when I turn off ‘Auto Key Frame on Scene Change’. I’m thinking that something is making Squeeze think there’s a scene change where there isn’t one, and it’s dropping in a key frame at that point.

If I set the player’s dimensions to that of the video, I get black bars on the sides. That’s why I changed the dimensions of the player…I merely reduced the dimensions until the black bars were gone. These bars are not a result of not cropping them out on transcode…those normal black bars are removed at transcode.

Steve Brame
creative illusions Productions
VODSouth

[Steve Brame]

Sorry…thought you meant what size the video was transcoded to…not the player size. However, the player size isn’t the problem. I’m playing locally in QT at the video’s full size, and the problem still occurs.

Steve Brame
creative illusions Productions
VODSouth

[Steve Brame]

Some cropping is necessary, but I’ve got it set to maintain source aspect ratio.

Steve Brame
creative illusions Productions
VODSouth

[Steve Brame]

They’re at 480 x 360 per client specs.

Steve Brame
creative illusions Productions
VODSouth

[Steve Brame]

Here is a player specifically designed for CC…and it’s free.

https://ncam.wgbh.org/webaccess/ccforflash/index.html

Steve Brame
creative illusions Productions
VODSouth

[Steve Brame]

Like I said – “rookie question”. Thanks a load. That’ll save me lots of aggravation.

Steve Brame
creative illusions Productions
VODSouth

[Steve Brame]

Just tried it. It can’t find it, but when you point it to the file location it sees it and all is well…even if the file is moved to a totally different drive.

Steve Brame
creative illusions Productions
VODSouth

[Steve Brame]

A good explanation, yes. Make sense? Not at all. It’s a good thing that every other app in the world doesn’t use that kind of ‘reasoning’ that Premiere does. Think what would happen if you moved a 200 page Word document, and because Word didn’t recognize the new file locations directory structure, you had to retype the entire document, or move the doc back to the original location, open it, copy everything, then create a new blank document at the new location and paste everything into it from the document in the old location.

Add this to the list of things that Avid does better than PPro. That brings the list up to…1 item. ;>)

Steve Brame
creative illusions Productions
VODSouth