Hope you all had a marvelous Christmas and a happy Hanukah!
The nicest present I got this year was an iTouch. So I thought: wouldn't it be nice to put all my movies on it and take it to the film markets and show my trailers to distributors on the fly? -- up and down elevators, in taxis, at restaurants (with ketchup dripping on their ties).LOL
I tried to drag some trailer files over to the iTouch, but it didn't work. So I tried converting one into an iPod movie and that worked.
I actually went from the FCP 5.04 timeline and exported via Conversion to iPod format. It turned out to be .m4v However, FCP doesn't show what the settings are. So I though of asking here, what are the settings?
The 15 Gig HDV 83 minute movie THE RED QUEEN became 750 MBs as .m4v file.
It took 8 hours for my G5 OS 10.4.11 and 4 MBs of RAM memory to do the job.
I dragged it onto my iTouch (in iTunes interface) and it went aboard without a hitch, so to speak. It plays beautiful. Is it HiDef? Can't be, right. It's only 740 MBs; but what is it? 320x240? It plays as 16:9.
I'd appreciate some help in figuring out what's the best way to go from FCP 5.04 to the iPod for all my features and trailers. For example, should I use Compressor 2?