Tom Brooks
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Bill,
Have you tried the Video application on Facebook yet? It may not have the clout of YouTube, but it has some advantages in terms of quality and format flexibility.
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Found one on Kenstone but nothing on Cow. I coulda swore there was one.
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I did not know you could send files that are not in square pixel 4:3 format, so mine have always been sent that way–640×480. You can go with H.264 compression and AAC audio. It should be more efficient than MPEG-4/MP-3 and thus you’ll get a better trade-off between quality and upload size. One thing I don’t currently know…is there a file-size limit for each individual movie you upload or is it just a limit on the total upload batch?
There should be a good tutorial on this site and also on the Kenstone.net site on how to best compress for YT.
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720p24 from P2 works great on my system. I don’t have the most up to date or maxed out system in the world, but the components were chosen to be more than adequate for the tasks they do. Not enough RAM could be hurting your system’s performance. A slow media drive can be just as harmful.
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[Tony Velez] “i had one hard drive connected to the fw400 port, and my 1TB drive connected to the fw800 port. No i did not have the 1TB going from fw800 to fw400 cable hooked up. 800 to 800.”
Still, this will drop your FW speed down to 400 because the FireWire bus is shared between the 800 and 400. Try it without the 400 drive hooked up. There’s nothing else obviously wrong with your setup. As you said, the media is coming off an external drive with plenty of space on it. But if you’re dropping frames like crazy due to FW bus problems, you might get the trouble you stated.
Final Cut Pro 6.0.4, Mac OS-X 10.4.11, Quicktime 7.5, After Effects 6.5 Pro, G5 Quad 2.5, Kona-LHe V5.1, 4.5GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce 7800-GT 256MB, G-RAID 2x1TB FW800, 6TB RAID-5 (Enhance E8-ML, Highpoint 2322), Panasonic HVX-200P P2.
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First, your footage appears to be correctly proportioned. Quicktime will show the size that makes your video appear correct on a square-pixel display.
The sync issue is separate. Are you using Unlimited RT? What do you mean by “jumping out of sync?” Does it go out of sync at cuts or dissolves or is it random? What are your system details and what are you using for scratch disks?
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From your post I see nothing wrong with your setup. AJA might have you uninstall and reinstall LH driver at some point. They’ll have the best answer regarding possible conflicts. I am interested in the answer you get.
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I believe the comparable NTSC setting I use is called AJA Kona LHe NTSC 8-bit to DV. Is that what you selected —- PAL 8-bit to DV?
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I sometimes have wishful thinking for transfer modes. Screen mode would always leave transparent areas if the background is anything but black.
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If your export is going to a drive formatted as FAT32 or is going to a share on a network there is a file-size limit that you are running up against. So Final Cut makes a reference movie which refers to a series of parts. You should be able to export the whole movie to a drive formatted as Mac OS-X Extended. If you are trying to get the movie to a network share, you can export to a Mac OS drive first and then use Finder to copy it to the network. There are a variety of ways to get there, but the format is the culprit.