Wahoo – My media releigion is about to change 180 degrees. First, a couple of things – I am *NOT* a purist. I want clean, fast workflow for video production and I want my video to be seen by as many people as possible without forcing them to install software. I have *despised* the idiotic games that Quicktime, Real, and Windows Media have gone through during the past decade to force us to choose.
\nIn that crappy environment I chose not based on best codecs or even most convienent format -but simply the majority of the desktops. This was my media flow:
\nCapture on DV – Sony DC30
\nUse Final Cut Pro on MacBook Pro
\nDub Back to DV
\nDigitize DV into Pinnacle on PC
\nTrim things up in Pinnacle and produce DV encoded AVI
\nPriduce MPEG2 1440kbps using Pinnacle
\nProduce WMV 323 kbps using Windows Media Encoder
\nUse WMV 323 as my upload format for the web
\nUse MPEG2 as my upload format for Google Video
\nThis has lots of problems – but it basically hit 90% of the desktops woff the get go.
\nThis is my new pattern
\nCapture on my (borrowed from Rich) DVCPRO Sony 3CCD PD100
\nEdit on Final Cut Pro
\nProduce Full Resolution Export
\nRun that through JSDeinterlace (yes Victoria the Apple\/Quicktime forgot the deinterlace checkbox on the encoding screen)
\nRun the output of that through Quicktime Pro to produce “Lan\/Internet” 1440 kbps MOV file. Send that to Google.
\nRun the deinterlaced output through Quicktime to FLV using Macromedia Flash. Use that for the web with the Wimpy inline player – also send the FLV up to YouTube.
\nGo back to Final Cut pro and put a copy on Mini DV
\nThis is pretty dang cool because I get virtually 100% desktops and some PDA devices with FLV. And the MOV format at 1440KBPS is pretty fine quality – especially deinterlaced.
\nOnly fly in the ointment is that FLV seems to croak on certian file sizes and\/or movie lengths. Grrr. This seems to be universal across FLV players – Both the Spark and Wimpy player exhibited this behavior.
\nSo that might force me to produce both a 1400 kbps WMV in addition to the 1400 KBPS QT for clips > 8 minutes. The FLV will have to be a preview there.
\nBut all in all, I end up with a much nicer near archival format in the form of 1440 MOV files rather than MPEG2 which did not give quality for the disk space it took. I might need to still run it through a PC for WMV – but the end user experience is much better with both YouTube and Google Video available.
\nSweet.
\nThe Quicktime Codec that worked for me on Google Video was: 640×480, Audio – AAC, Video H.264 – this is the “LAN\/Internet” preset in the Quicktime Export dialog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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