Re: Stereo video from YK7 Loopfest Santa Cruz posted

[Reyn Ouwehand <reyn@reyn.net>]

On Dec 20, 2007, at 10:43 AM, Per Boysen wrote:

> On Dec 20, 2007 10:17 AM, L.A. Angulo <labaloops@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hey Reyn,can you explain how to download and encode a
> video from youtube with flash,i suppose i would need
> the program,right?
> cheers
> Luis
>
>
> Hi, I just happened to see this post and thought it might speed  
> things up if I can throw in an answer, although Luis is addressing  
> Reyn here. Well, the answer is you can't. If a video is in mono on  
> YouTube it will still be in mono if you download it, so if you  
> convert it into Flash it will not magically become stereo. But what  
> this is all about is when you are not downloading but rather  
> creating a video. What Reyn is saying is that you should save it as  
> a Flash file instead of Quicktime or whatever format you are  
> working with. As far as I know you have to use the Flash  
> application for doing that. Since I own the Logic Pro Studio I also  
> have Compressor, but I'm not in a position right now to see if  
> Compressor (OS X) can export Flash. When I made Flash cartoon  
> movies in the past I was using Flash 4.0. Didn't Adobe buy  
> Macromedia BTW? That means that you may probably get a good Flash  
> support if you buy Adobes audio/sample editing application....  
> forgot the name now, but if you're interested you can easily find  
> out. "Audition" maybe... anyway, it's known for being very good -  
> kind of better than people think since it is still rather new and  
> so far has been existing in the shadow of SoundForge, WaveLab and  
> those kind.

Amen!

Well, the program you could use on the Mac is called "ffmpegX". It  
can decode pretty much everything. I think (not sure, I'm a Mac user  
myself) it got ported for from a PC app, so I guess it's also  
available for the PC.

Cheers,

Reyn

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