conference videos to USB

Has anyone been able to put videos on USB sticks usinf FCP?

We were wondering how much footage you could fit on,
say a 4G stick, with the video converted down to a 320x24o window.

Is there a specific codec you would use for this? DV is way too good?!

The quality would only have to be web quality, so I was wondering if there
was a workflow in FCP for taking say an hour and a half of video and compressing
the heck out of it; but also not taking much real-estate in the digitization process.

I humblby submit this question to the gurus!

> We were wondering how much footage you could fit on,
> say a 4G stick, with the video converted down to a 320x240 window.

Video frame size has nothing to do with it. It's the bit rate you're encoding at, and the codec. An H.264 MPEG-4 at 300kbps (64kbps audio) would be about 3MB per minute, so a 4GB USB stick would fit a lot. However, H.264 is a pretty processor-intensive codec, so playback straight from a USB flash stick wouldn't be very good. You should copy the files to an internal drive before playing them back.


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and most of the content would be played on a PC;
but I'm sure Windows supports h264.

I think the mandate from above is to have playback
from the USB stick; so I guess I'd load 5 minutes
of any video on and see if it stutters!

Thanks.

Oh yeah I read Ghostbusters was released on
USB stick, so I wonder what codec they used?


derekmok Wrote:
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> > We were wondering how much footage you could fit
> on,
> > say a 4G stick, with the video converted down to
> a 320x240 window.
>
> Video frame size has nothing to do with it. It's
> the bit rate you're encoding at, and the codec.
> An H.264 MPEG-4 at 300kbps (64kbps audio) would be
> about 3MB per minute, so a 4GB USB stick would fit
> a lot. However, H.264 is a pretty
> processor-intensive codec, so playback straight
> from a USB flash stick wouldn't be very good. You
> should copy the files to an internal drive before
> playing them back.

just did 2 jobs that way

1st: the usb "Jump Drive" must be USB 2.0

2nd: export H.264

3rd: author H.264 into a Flash interface with an executable for PC auto start

Note: both clients did not want to pay for a mac executable but this can be done.
also the USB duplicator can "lock" the jump drive, but again both clients did not want this
I learned that this request can be finished on the cheap or authored and delivered expertly with a high cost.

Any ballpark times for say 1 hour of video
to be exported from FCP.
and a ballpark figure for importing into flash?

Thanks




ChrisMoriarty Wrote:
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> just did 2 jobs that way
>
> 1st: the usb "Jump Drive" must be USB 2.0
>
> 2nd: export H.264
>
> 3rd: author H.264 into a Flash interface with an
> executable for PC auto start
>
> Note: both clients did not want to pay for a mac
> executable but this can be done.
> also the USB duplicator can "lock" the jump drive,
> but again both clients did not want this
> I learned that this request can be finished on the
> cheap or authored and delivered expertly with a
> high cost.

an HOUR?!?!??! gonna be an expensive jump drive...