Facebook export settings?

I have some great pictures, but after uploading to facebook their quality gets much worse and muddy. I was wondering what's the best export setting for upload onto facebook?

Normally, the most common reason for images looking a bit pants online is that they are in the wrong colour space.
It is still best to convert to sRGB for this reason before putting online and until all browsers recognise colour profiles, that is still the best practice.
However I just looked at LR's Flickr publish options and converting to any colour profile does not seem to be there. Maybe as LR always does this, but cannot say for certain, but as LR works in an large colour space [Melissa] variation of ProPhoto it must do so as I've had good results uploading to Facebook/FLickr.
But as FB compresses images [which certainly happens if you upload using their own tool http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=6121999665 ] I always upload them at highest quality setting.
I've always used Jeffrey Friedl's FB uploader and prefer it to the new and somewhat confusing LR Publish interface.

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LR 3.2 Facebook Export Error

Hello everyone,
I keep getting a "Failed to Retrieve item info" when I try to publish my photos using Lightroom's facebook export publish feature. I was able to use it a month ago but every time that I try to publish new albums to facebook it gives me that error. I even tried uninstalling and reinstalling lightroom, tried uninstalling the facebook exporting option from lightroom, tried reauthenticating to facebook and nothing works.
Does anyone have a fix for this? A lot of my clients like it when I upload pictures for Facebook but I haven't been able to do so in a long time.
If it's any concern, I'm currently using an Apple Macbook Pro 15" i7 and x64 lightroom 3.2.
Does anyone have a fix so that I don't get that error and can publish to facebook again?

I found too that the publishing services work differently than the plug-ins. Not as intuitive, but work well just the same, For me I had to do the "set-up" for the Facebook publishing service a couple of times. I think this may have more to do with the Facebook security settings than with LR.

Facebook Export

When I select a bunch of photos and export them using the built-in Facebook Export, every single photo gets its own Homepage notification.
This is very annoying because the Homepage is swarmed by my upload notifications and all other older notifications (from other people) are pushed from the page.
And because all my friends can see my photos, they see this same effect on their Homepage too.
How can this be solved?... I just want 1 notification of an album upload.
Tnx
Wodan

Settings/Application Settings/Show: Authorized/Photos/Edit Settings/Select "Never publish any stories from Photos."
You may also have to do the same for iPhoto Uploader.
Note that there are also other options to be prompted before posting, etc.

Best image EXPORT settings for best quality

What should i have my export settings at when exporting to a jump drive to give to clients for web and printing use???
When i see my images uploaded on Facebook for example, the qulity looks poor which worries me that when printing the quality will be poor as well. Am i missing something in the setting for exporting? What is the proper way to export for the best quality image? HELP!
My settings now under Aperture>Presets>Image Export:
JPG Original size
300 dpi

t_hall10 wrote:
The information provided was helpful, but did not completely answer my question...
Are there specific settings with-in Aperture I can set for exporting so that clients have the ability to print as wanted and post on the web as wanted whithout losing any major amount of photo quality?
No, not for one size fits all.
I do appreciate this may be a frustrating answer, but non-the-less, that's how it is.
t_hall10 wrote:
Should I be gving 2 folders of pictures, one for web use and one for printing use? If I were to do that, what should the exporting setting be set for both folders?
Maybe, it's your choice.
Let's go through the settings.
The only real quality setting is for JPG compression. 12 is virtually no (lossless) compression but gives huge file sizes which may breach a websites limits.
A 16MP images on quality 12 will be about 22MB. 11 brings it down to 8MB and 10 down to 7MB. You'd be very hard pressed to see the difference between a 12 and a 10. But if you want to feel you are giving the best quality without the extreme file size, go for 11.
The the vast majority of web sites, like facebook, will either resize uploaded images and/or re-compress them. They may also crop them to a different aspect ratio to fit their browser software.
Many report the best size for upload to facebook, for small images is 960 pixels on the long side. For large images it's 2048. For different websites it may be different. It is discussed on many photography sites and blogs. You will find some promoting the 960 / 2048, and others with their own preferences. Here's a good one which also shows you many ways FB will mess with the images:
http://havecamerawilltravel.com/photographer/images-photos-facebook-sizes-dimens ions-types
The safest colour space is sRGB (Mac profile: sRGB IEC61966-2.1) as it will more often be right than wrong. You should preview your images on screen with this profile to get a feel for how it will look and avoid unexpected colour shifts in your files. Ideally your screen should be calibrated so you know what you are giving them is accurate.
To understand the printing issue, try this exercise:
If you have a printer installed on your Mac, it probably also installed some printer profiles. In Aperture, look at one of your nicer vibrant images. From the view menu turn on 'Onscreen Proofing' and then from the 'Proofing Profile' sub menu, select one of your printer profiles and look at how the onscreen image changes. Repeat with each of the printing profiles and see how the image changes each time.
This is only a fraction of the colour shifts that will be occuring after you give your file to someone and they print it on their own uncalibrated system with their uncalibrated printer.
Many photographers don't offer full size images to their clients. They will usually give them smaller versions for their own use, which may include small size printing.
They will either do the main printing themself on their own calibrated printer, or work with a print shop, and may have installed calibrated profiles on their system for the shops printing equipment so they can use onscreen proofing to gauge what the pictures will look like when printed on that equipment.
But if you are just giving a file to someone, you lose all control of how they will print it. Even experienced photographers and computer users can struggle to make the prints match close to what they look like on screen.
Most often photos will appear too dark, or the colours look wrong, or it lacks sharpness. There are some settings on the export presets for gamma and blackpoint compensation. Gamma will brighten the image for when it's printing too dark, and blackpoint will try to stop the shadows turning black (within the chosen colour space). But as you don't know in advance whether the images are going to print too dark, or the shadows are turning black, you can't really set these for a one-size fits all scenario.
So there are not many settings to help you here.
You are actually moving into the realm of defining your product. You could, for example, ask the client which site they intend to publish the photos on, research that site and produce files optimized specifically for that site.
You also need to decide what size (resolution) files to give them for printing and whether you are happy giving away your full size images.
These choices will lead you to a number of a different files sizes as 'your product', all should be in sRGB colour space, and all with quality 10 or 11. For any client's who know how to make use of a wider clour space like Adobe RGB for printing, they will probably ask you up front to supply the print versions as such.
Next, for each size and usage, you now need to sharpen these images.
This is because sharpeing is best applied to images that have been resized to their intended output size and should be sharpened in accordance with how they will be viewed. Images displayed on computer screen generally need less sharpening than those that will be printed. Depening on the printer, the images may need some oversharpening in the file, in order to appear crisp and sharp in the print. As you won't be controlling the printing process you should probably avoid oversharpening. The bottom line is, if people are taking on the task of their own printing, they'll need to figure out what they are doing to get good results, or use a commercial printer.
Andy

Premiere Pro CS4 "Export Settings" window does not show up.

Hello,
I've run into a new problem with Premiere Pro CS4. Basically, when I select "File > Export > Media" my Export Settings window doesn't show up. If I click on the Premiere window I hear the beeping sound and nothing happens, if I hit Enter the Export Data window pops up and then Media Encoder opens. So, it seems that my Export Settings window is still open but I can't see it and make the necessary setting changes. It does not appear to be minimized and I can not locate it on my desktop anywhere. This is really frustrating because I was able to see the Export Settings window just a few weeks ago when I was exporting my last project. I've tried changing my screen resolutions but that didnt reveal the Export Settings window.
Does anyone know what is going on here and, more importantly, how I can fix it? I am really stuck here and am working against a deadline. Any and all help is greatly appreciated!
-Ben

Ben,
THANK YOU!!!! For two days I have been struggling with the exact same issue. And of course it was simple to fix, if I had just thought about it. Thank you for taking the time to post your experience. I had tried all sorts of stuff trying to get everything onto my #1 monitor, with desktop & workspace resets, resizing my display, etc. After reading and printing your post,
Hitting ALT+Space,
Down Arrow,
Enter,
and then pressing the left arrow and watching my Export window slide into view, I was laughing so hard, that I was tearing up. It would have been a month waiting for my second monitor to get repaired to get to see what was still being displayed on this ghost monitor. Each week, I video and edit our church's service and then post three versions (Windows Media Player, Ipod-MP4, MP3 Audio) of it to our web site. I would have been four weeks behind were it not for your post.
Again, a BIG Thank You!!!
Tony Salso
[email protected]
Cedar City, UT 84720
Tony—Professional Digital Pictures
--Videographer and Webmaster
Red Hills Southern Baptist Church
Serving Jesus in Southern Utah
[email protected]
www.redhillssbc.org

How do I reduce the number of audio channels in the source or export settings?

I'. trying to export my finished edit through the "movie" setting but keep getting the message that the number of audio channels to create in the exported file must be equal to, or less than the number of channels in the source. Reduce the number of audio channels in the source. Reduce the number of audio channels in the export settings. I am at a loss as to what this means and how I proceed with it prior to putting it to DVD. Please advise.
JWooley

What is your source, sequence settings and export setting. Which version of PP?
Prefebly a screendump of the export settings box.
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Export settings for RealMedia

Hello everybody
I use PR Pro 1.5 and I created a short video (a collection of .avi source files that lasts no longer than 4 mn) that I need to export in various formats :
WMP and RealMedia for the web, and then AVI, QT and MPEG1 for cdroms, Knowing that the video is meant to be seen by a large audience, and that the original avi files properties are as follows : 720*576, audio rate=1024 kbps, 16 bits, PCM and video image rate 25/s, 29200kbps.
I am really new to all the concepts regarding audio and video codecs, time frame, bit rate etc. so I am a bit at a loss with the export settings.
So far, for each of these formats, my guess would be as shown below :
RealMedia for the web : export / adobe media encoder
codec : "RM9 NTSC download "32"," 62", "128" or "256 "? I don’t know which to choose or why. And just because 256 seems familiar, this is what I would select.
a- for the “Band width” I’d pick up the “56 dial-up” settings because of the large audience it is aiming at, ..
b- as for the “band width rate” I can choose between “variable” (average or high quality) or “continuous”, I’d pick “variable (average) because of the diversity of the audience connectivity
c- and then I have to choose the rate values (default values go from 700 max to 200 average), and here I really have no idea,
d- Then I have two drop down menus (for video and audio), first for a voice codec : there aren’t any voice on my video, so I’d pick the lowest value = 5kbps, second for a music codec : there’s a mp3 soundtrack on my video (rate: 200kbps, 2(stereo) and 44KHz), so I’d go for the “176kbps stereo music” selection in the drop down list, but I keep wondering why not “176 kbps audio surrounding”, or maybe it could be a lower or a higher rate.
e- and then again, I have the same two drop down menus (but this time for video only). Basically for the voice codec I’d make the same selection as above for both the voice and music codec.
a-In the video panel, I can decide to change the dimensions of the images. Default is set to 320*340, but my original files are 720*576. So should I change the default settings to match the real dimension of the images ? If I do so, will that increase the weight of my video and as a consequence the duration of download for the internet users ? Maybe I shouldn’t consider this as it should be a streaming video, … then the weight doesn’t really matter, and I can go for the 720*576 resolution. Except I’ve read somewhere that most servers that host videos are not dedicated to streaming, so in the end, the weight does matter for most internet users wishing to watch a video. … Shouldn’t I on the contrary leave the default dimensions as they are ?
b- and the in the next drop down menu I have to choose the video compression : “Real Video 9” or “Real Video 8” or “Real Video G2”. So … So G2 rings a bell somehow related to servers specializing in streaming (maybe I am completely wrong here … sorry). So I’d pick up that one to ensure that my video will be streamed. Then as an afterthought, as the total length of my video lasts no longer than 4 mn, maybe I can afford any of the two other options in the drop down menu. But which one is best ?
Jeez, this is a lot ! I’ll come back later on with my other formats and check if anybody is brave enough to answer !
Thanks in advance anyway
T.

dj paige ... thank you.

What are the best export settings to use...

Operating system: Vista SP1
Camera: Canon HF100 (1900x1080 HD quality 29.97fps) -- uses AVCHD compression which is H.264 I believe.
I'm able to watch my camera video files in Vista nicely. However, I'm having trouble with the watching the results of my edited and exported videos. Assuming I want the same quality and playability as the source video, what settings should I use in the export?
In the export settings window... I select:
Format: H.264
Preset: HDTV 1080p 29.97 High Quality
Source files have the extension: .m2ts
...I don't change the other values. Then I export. Now the result is an .mp4 file which does not play in Windows Media Player. It does play in Quicktime or iTunes however it plays jerkily... I would like to be able to play it as smoothly as the original source plays... And I'd like to be able to play it in windows media player just as the source can be played in media player. Media player seems to play the source more smoothly than does iTunes or Quicktime.
So what are the best export settings for me so that I can watch my edited HD video on my computer as easily as the source footage???
I've been able to edit and save the results of the edit using the crappy ImageMixer3 video editor that comes with the camera. The results are perfect and play in windows media fine. The files it exports the edited video as is the same as the soure... the file extension is .m2ts
So the problem is how to get Adobe to export the edited video to an .m2ts file or at least to a file type that plays as nicely in my system?

See
Exporting to iPods, cell phones, PSPs and other mobile devices in the PPro Help for details.
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Quicktime crashes when I attempt to change export settings.

Everytime I attempt to change my export settings in Quicktime 7 Pro (File>Export>Options>Settings) Quicktime crashes. I can open the Options window and see what compression I am using etc but as soon as I click on Settings or Filter or Size the next window opens for less than a second and Quicktime crashes along with an annoying tone from Windows.
I have uninstalled and re-installed Quicktime and iTunes with no change. I have also done a complete reinstall of XP home edition including downloading all the security updates, Service Pack 2 etc and I get the same error. This is a new problem because I had been doing this with no trouble just a few weeks ago.
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An exception occured while trying to run "Shell32.dll, Control_RunDLL" C:\Program Files\Quicktime\QTSystem\Quicktime.cpl"" If I leave that error window (labelled Run.DLL) open I then get Run a DLL as an App has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience. and it asks me to send an error report etc etc...
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Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library
Buffer Overrun detected!
Program C:\Program Files\Quicktime\QuickTimePlayer.exe
A buffer overrun has been detected which has corrupted the program's internal state. The program cannot safely continue execution and must now be terminated.
I've never seen Quicktime act this buggy until recently. This occurs with 7.1. 7.1.3 and the newest 7.1.6.
Custom Windows XP
Running updates with the Apple Software Updater seems to work without any errors.

Okay. I don't know if anyone's reading this thread anymore but there is a work-around. It is a conflict with Quicktime and Nvidia cards. If you go into your display properties then click settings and click advanced, then click Troubleshoot. Slide the hardware acceleration slider all the way to the left. Disabling this does fix it. I know Quicktime and Nvidia are being asked for a fix but in the meantime, this does work.
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Problems with exporting after Facebook export installation

Hi there,
I installed the Facebook exporter app and then discovered my iPhoto is too old (it is iPhoto 4). Thereafter I was unable to export anything because my mac would crash. So I uninstalled the app and since then my normal export button is missing. I found a forum on this site, where the same problem was solved, but this was for someone with iLife 08 and required a reinstallation from disk.
The problem is, I bought OS X 10.5 recently but not iLife, so my iPhoto etc is from the old days. I would be totally, infinitely and unbelievably grateful if someone could help me out here, because I currently cannot export anything from iPhoto. Which disk do I use for reinstallation? When I bought my mac it had 10.3 on it. How do I reinstall iPhoto when my operating system is new? Help!
Cheers,
Kerry

Thanks for that - unfortunately I have lost disk number 1 and can only find disk number 2. Honestly, I never thought I'd need them, and they've been packed and unpacked at least 4 times since I bought the computer.
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cheers and thanks again,
Kerry

Facebook Export Shows Partial Album List

I am using Facebook Exporter with the latest version of Bridge, and the latest Export modules. Both Bridge and the Modules themselves have been updated as of today. I've been able to successfully export to Facebook, but the issue is that the Albums window does not display all of my albums. There are more than 5 albums missing from the list. Anyone have the same issue?

HAVE probelm with the FACEBOOK EXPORT too
when I first installed it did not work at all
then it did- it seemed to me a log in issue-
whenit worked it was GREAT! I never has the problem of not seeing the album names, it always logged me out of FB for my next visit
however every photo I uploaded to FB from Bridge export is now gone!! last two days
All the albums created in the Bridge interface are gone and all the pictures into other albums that were not uploaded by Bridge are still in FB but not any I added via Bridge
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using win xp sp3
error I get when trying to connect to FB is
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Hi,
I have a Windows 7 operating system on a 32-bit dell computer. When I open Adobe Media Encoder
I click on the Add button. Then I go to Edit->Export Settings. I am missing some of the
options for instance: adding cue points, parameters, and filters. I think it has a problem with Windows 7, but I'm
not sure.
There should be more options.
I put in my installation disk, but it does not allow you to just reinstall this program.
Does anyone know why this is happening. It works on a computer running Windows XP.

I cannot guarantee that it is not a software issue. Sometimes Matrox is an easy "target." However, with several other Matrox users having similar issues, it does seem that Matrox might be the common element.
One of the issues with troubleshooting Matrox issues with PrPro is that few of the normal responders here have Matrox. Many tried the cards, and most unplugged them for various reasons. Some, like me, have never used them. That kind of limits the responses here, unless a Matrox-user, who has addressed such issues successfully, drops by with some tips.
Good luck, and please update the thread, especially if you do get a "fix." Others will benefit, and I will learn something new!
Hunt

Adobe Media Encoder will not allow me to export settings

I am trying to export the settings from Adobe Media Encoder 6 so a co-worker can use them to encode videos with the same settings I have. However, when I click on edit, export settings is greyed out. Does anyone know what can be done to fix this? If there is another way to pass on my settings I'm open to suggestions.
Thanks in advance for your help.

Sorry, found it,
Didn't realise I could scroll down to find more options in
the Encoder Window

Adobe Media Encoder Export Settings Window Dimensions Problem

Any help on this would be appreciated: I'm on a macbook pro, osx 10.6, using CS4 Web Premium. I used to have an external monitor hooked up which had much higher resolution, so when using Adobe Media Encoder I'd click the Settings button on a video to get the Export Settings window, then stretched the Export Settings window to be the size of my external monitor. Now, I'm just using my laptop, and the export settings window does not have the resize buttons at top left to adjust it back to the size of my laptop, and the bottom third of the export settings window is getting cut off so I can't see the cancel/ok buttons etc.
I've tried re-installing media encoder (via reinstalling flash using the CDs) to try to 'reset' the window sizes, didn't fix the problem.
If anyone knows of any other preferences or something I could delete to fix this, I'd be one thankful dude.

Yes, I was getting the same response. It means Adobe is not using OS native windows (shame on them!).I just tried something with CS4 that worked, though. Try this:
Quit Media Encoder
Go to UserHomeDirectory > Library > Preferences > Adobe > Adobe Media Encoder > 4.0 and delete the files called 'AMEPrefs.xml' and 'AppPrefs.xml'.
Then restart Media Encoder. For me, this reset the window size and placement. I tried moving the Export Settings window down so half of it was off the bottom of the screen. Once I deleted these files and restarted, the window was smaller and repositioned.
If that doesn't work, try downloading the demo of this product:
http://irradiatedsoftware.com/sizeup/
It says that Adobe programs are "trouble" programs, that they probably won't resize, but they should at least move. If nothing else, maybe you can move the window to a negative y value (up) so that the resize handle is visible, then move it back down so the header bar is visible again...

When trying to sign into facebook in settings for ios6, I get an error that says "You cannot sign in from your iPhone since you have opted out of Facebook Platform." What gives?

When trying to sign into facebook in settings for ios6, I get an error that says "You cannot sign in from your iPhone since you have opted out of Facebook Platform." What gives?
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Sure sounds like a Facebook setting. When you look at your Privacy Settings in Facebook (on facebook.com), you should see something under "Apps you use" that says
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The "Turn off" is a hyperlink that shuts down the Facebook platform. If you don't see this, or if the wording is different, you may have (inadvertently?) shut this off, and should be able to turn it back on.
Edit: The sequence to that screen on facebook.com is: Privacy Settings (from the upper right dropdown), then "Ads, Apps and Websites" will have an "Edit settings" link to the right. This is where you'll see the "Apps you use" screen.

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