Re: Stereo video from Y2K7 Loopfest Santa Cruz

["mark francombe" <mark@markfrancombe.com>]

YIKES! Video settings on Loopers Delight!!

I work with this everyday and I can assure you all that it never
really gets easy... never a day goes by when we don't test some new
setting or another.

As for uploading to YouTube (never done it so I dont know) you dont
have to make the Flash Video file do you? just a Avi or quicktime or
whatever? Of course the general rule is ... Quality IN = Quality Out.
But there are many considerations. The most important thing is, is
there alot of movement in the image? Then the CODEC is doing alot of
work, re-compressing every frame, therfore Bad quality. But we all
like super fast cuts and moving camera don't we? Well there are some
great codecs you all should try. H264 is my current fave. And you
should be able to save to these formats straight out of your editing
application. I use Final Cut Pro on Mac or Premier Pro on PC.
Currently I am using the following steps: But bare in mind that you
can push these a bit higher, my target group is business and as such
they have restrictions on streamed content at many offices.

Export from Final Cut Pro at Full Size using H264 codec (It good to
have a perfect (but playable) quality version on your machine.
Then I encode to Flash Video (.flv) using the standard Flash Video
Encode that comes with Flash.
I use the fantastic On2 VP6 codec at 400kbps (this is the number you
can push a bit higher if you are on a fatso line)
and audio set to MP3 at 96 kbps (stereo) I use a low number here
because I really want stereo.
and I use screen sizes that are multiples of 16 (best) 8 (good) and 4
(ok) see here >>>
http://www.flashsupport.com/books/fvst/files/tools/video_sizes.html
usually 768 x 432 or 640 x 360 (these are 16:9 ratio widescreen
settings - your stuff is probably 4:3 or 5:3)

Then the flv is embedded in a flash page using the built in flash
video component, and I have some custom code interactivity and
captionating (not really relevant to music)

Other tips? Well one CAN try a smaller video size, say 384 x 216 and
then... on the flash page just resize the component to a bigger size
(still using these ratios) this works very well for those who cant use
the bandwidth but still want a largish screen.

hope this helps to those who want to make their own video pages. For
those YouTubers I just suggest uploading a good high quality quicktime
video that has maybe been resized to correct size before hand (im
guessing that their system takes shortcuts here...)

hope this helps someone
-- 
www.markfrancombe.com
www.looop.no