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Show all posts by userYour basic troubleshooting forum for all things FCP Legacy (FCP 7 and below.) And general discussion on topics that do not fit in the other forums.
Not registered? Click HERE to register now Re: Export high Quality FLV's - 15 years agoFlash-8 will not play h.264. If you want your audience members to be able to play h.264 in flash, they will need to upgrade to a more recent version of the player. The current version is Flash-10. Your site can be designed to make the upgrade automatic. Most computers today already have the Flash-10 player installed. Flash-10 works in most operating systems in use today, including Windows XP, 9by Travis - Café LA Re: Oh, no.. not Seagate drives!! - 15 years agoSeagate will only allow access to the update if you submit a trouble ticket. They claim that they don't want people messing with their drive firmware until Seagate has the chance to verify that they need it. This may be a reasonable approach. Here's the link: http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=207931by Travis - Café LA Re: Oh, no.. not Seagate drives!! - 15 years agoThanks for the heads up Loren... Just lost a 1TB drive in a new PC I just built - had to replace it with a 1.5 TB 'cause the dealer was out of 1TB drives. The problem is I've still got two more in the machine. Seagate used to be the best for reliability and service. But last year, when I upgraded to Leopard, my 500GB Firewire Drive- which said was Mac compatible right on the box, wouldn'tby Travis - Café LA Re: softwear to convert mpeg4 files to flash - 15 years agoHi Rick, The three programs I use to generate flash files are: MPEG Streamclip Quicktime Pro FCP 6. Or any program that will generate h.264 files. Since Flash now can use h.264 files directly (no further encoding needed) these programs (along with an online Flash Player) are all you need to encode Flash compatible files. Recent encodings I've done with FCP6 may be viewed at:by Travis - Café LA Re: quicktime video hosting - 15 years agoHere's an experimental HD720 piece that I encoded directly out of FCP as h.264. Then I set up a Flash player to play it - the video was not re-encoded by Flash. If you have 2kbps, a monitor large enough, and a relatively new machine, it plays quite well (remember it's only 2000kbps). It uses standard web hosting and "html streaming" (not streamed at all, but uses progressive downloadby Travis - Café LA Re: Retaining H.264 encoding in Flash .flv files - 15 years agoThe On2/Flash 8 codec is excellent. However, in most cases, most people think h.264 makes a better picture for the same data rate. I've found that to be the case as well. However there are some advantages to the On2/Flash 8 system: (1) h.264 requires, under certain conditions, licensing fees for streaming content... And the current rules expire sometime in 2010. Nobody knows what the termsby Travis - Café LA Re: Retaining H.264 encoding in Flash .flv files - 15 years agoHi Ludka, The latest Flash player (Flash 10) will play h.264 files directly. You don't need to re-encode through Flash encoder. You can encode directly with FCP.by Travis - Café LA Re: Compressor Question - 15 years agoHi Alexander, MPEG Streamclip is your friend... and it's FREE! www.Squared5.comby Travis - Café LA Re: Best place to upload a director's reel online? - 15 years agoThe BEST way to put up your reel is to encode it to Flash 8 or H.264, and put up a Flash based page on your own site. That way: (1) You get total control of the way your video is displayed - you control quality/bandwidth. (2) Virtually everyone can see your reel, even if they're on a PC. (3) You are less likely to be filtered out by IT department protection systems. (4) You can get statistby Travis - Café LA Re: Rendering HD Video Into Flash - 15 years agoHi SASS man, I'm not quite sure what you mean by "the video is failing", however I've found that the Macromedia Encoder works quite well. I have found that it is wise to reduce the video dimensions to the size you want BEFORE sending to the Flash encoder. You can encode any frame size you want, with no problems. At the frame size you're using, you can probably get reasonably goodby Travis - Café LA Re: Best format to edit? - 15 years agoThe first one on the list (The one at the top) is "Standard" ProRes 422. The other (The one below that one one on the list) is "HQ". I've had excellent results with "Standard" ProRes 422 from m2t.by Travis - Café LA Re: Voice-over enhancement - 15 years ago--part two-- Now, if you're a student, or you have a budget of zero, or bringing in an audio expert is somehow impossible for you, attempting to do what you're doing can be an excellent learning experience. First, you need to determine what needs to be "fixed" in your voiceover recording. Some living room environments can serve as excellent recording environments. Others...wellby Travis - Café LA Re: Voice-over enhancement - 15 years agoHi James, Since I make my living as a voice-over guy, I often get to hear the results of attempts to "sweeten" the voice-over delivery on not only my own work, but other VO performers as well. Here's what I'd recommend, based on my experience, working on hundreds (thousands?) of productions. First, you need to make sure that you are able to "hear" the audio. By this, Iby Travis - Café LA Re: DVCPRO HD on a PC - 15 years agoHi Mike, Don't use AE, (Use Sony Vegas when on PCs) but I've found that the only HD .mov codec which works reliably for me on my PCs is MJPEG-A . Others work for awhile, then with each new implementation of Quicktime, they start having problems, until I get a software revision from Sony - just in time for another version of Quicktime. Good luck,by Travis - Café LA Re: need to use music from movie soundtrack in project - 15 years agoPeople I know who have tried to license music for their production have described the experience as an expensive nightmare. One paid a considerable amount for what he and his lawyer were sure were the rights to use the music, and still got sued, because, as Jeff mentioned above, it's often difficult to determine who actually owns the music. ACAP and BMI license only the rights to the compositby Travis - Café LA Re: fcp versus avid - 15 years agoAnother important question is "Who are you going to be working with?" (Disclaimer, I'm not a Final Cut expert - more of an occasional user and "tinkerer", I've never touched an Avid system, but I've worked on quite a few Avid and FCP projects and often talk with people using both systems.) Not everyone in the industry shares the open attitudes shown by others in this forby Travis - Café LA Re: Working with a Macphobe - 15 years agoQuoteJude CotterTravis, why wouldn't you just give them the .avi? Years ago, I gave up using .avi as a distribution medium. Things may have changed since then, but I found it very difficult to know which codecs a user had on their system, and the default codecs (Cinepack, Intel, MS) were all low quality or problematic. I Switched to providing both .wmv and .h264.mov, then to Flash 9 .flv.by Travis - Café LA Re: Working with a Macphobe - 15 years agoThis is a problem which does not seem to be going away soon. If you are working with people who are in the "Real" world - those who are not fortunate enough to be Mac based, you need to be able to understand their environment. Remember, over 90 percent of the computers out there are not Macs. The best way to do that is to have a Windows based platform available to prepare, and chby Travis - Café LA Re: OT: TV Tuner for Computer Monitor - 15 years agoHi Michanel... Then there's this: B&H Photo HD Tunerby Travis - Café LA Re: semantics - video/film, etc... - 15 years agoWe'll just have to get used to it - the terms are currently in transition. Soon, it appears, "film" will no longer be delivered to movie theaters - and, of course, electronic imaging is more and more replacing photochemical "film" as the most cost-effective means of capturing high-quality moving images. I suppose we could call magnetic tape a type of "film", aby Travis - Café LA Re: Audio ducker? - 16 years agoI'll to put something together in a couple of weeks( after recovering from NAB).by Travis - Café LA Re: Audio ducker? - 16 years agoOne quick-and-dirty way to accomplish audio ducking is to use a standard compressor/limiter. Use a moderate release time, and make sure the background sounds are about 6-12 db below the foreground sound. Use a low threshold. Then, when the foreground sound is not present, the limiter will bring up the background sound. When the foreground sound is present, it will bring down, or duck, the baby Travis - Café LA Re: Blu-Ray discs as archival format - 16 years agoThis would probably work: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_Golden_Recordby Travis - Café LA Re: High Def Streaming - 16 years agoHi Joey, In my own little survey of "streaming" systems, I've actually not found much difference in h.264, .wmv and Flash-8. At the same streaming rate, each has subtle differences, which show up differently on different machines. I've chosen Flash-8, temporarily, because it's the only format I can count on working on Windows and Macs (and, even Linux.). As the "installedby Travis - Café LA Re: High Def Streaming - 16 years agoI wish this was easier... Making the decisions needed to stream ANY video over the web, let alone HD is hard. The basics are simple, the more bandwidth, the better the video quality. -However, in our current world, a good number of people surfing the web do not have enough bandwidth to stream SD with reasonable quality, let alone HD. So you need to decide, first, who your audience iby Travis - Café LA Re: OT: Need BIG help with 3/4" JVC deck - 16 years agoOkay... (Remember, it's been a long time, so I could be wrong on any of this, and I don't recall if I've worked on your specific model). No, the motors won't have belts inside. There are four mechanisms in the machine. (1) The supply spindle, which is used for rewind. (2) The takeup spindle, which is driven to take up tape during recording/playback and fast forward. (3) The head assemby Travis - Café LA Re: OT: Need BIG help with 3/4" JVC deck - 16 years agoOkay... It's been a couple 'a decades since I worked on one of these things, so my memory is really hazy... However: Rick's probably right about the broken belt. As I remember ALL of the 3/4 machines used belts for driving the take-up & rewind spindles, the tape loading mechanism, and the head rotation assembly. Some used "idler" wheels to accomplish some of those tasks, but eby Travis - Café LA Re: Quick time mov can't be seen on a PC - 16 years agoOf all the viewable formats, Flash has the greatest "installed base" of users. I've standardized on Flash-8 for showing video on the web. HOWEVER - you can't just encode an .flv and send it off to a client. The .flv needs to be called by a Flash .swf program, which is embedded into an html document. There are standalone .flv players available, but very few PCs have them already instby Travis - Café LA Re: FCP can't be moved? - 16 years agoHere's my experience... If you have two machines, (In my case one laptop and one desktop) on the same network, and you're running one instance of FCP, you can't run, or even install a second copy on a machine on the same network. I had taken the laptop to the office studio to upgrade to FCS2. Once I shut down FCP on the office machine, it let me install FCS on the laptop.by Travis - Café LA Re: Quick time mov can't be seen on a PC - 16 years agoIf your client simply wants to view videos you send them, and they're using the Quicktime player. MPEG4/H.264 works quite well on my PCs. However, I've found that for editing video on a PC from a Mac, the ONLY codec that has been reliable for me has been Motion JPEG A. It's what I've standardized on. I've found that even the Animation codec has given me problems on my PC. While uncompresseby Travis - Café LA |
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