What is the best compressor setting to use ... when exporting a 720p timeline from FCP for a project that will only be played back in a standard def monitor?
What is the best compressor setting to use for DVD StudioPro ... when exporting a 720p 30 timeline from FCP for a project that will only be viewed in a standard def monitor?
Update: The iBook can play any 480p video and higher if I encode them with DivX and in AVI format. But of course this is not compatible with my iPhone 4. At least I can shrink my library now and get away from the full MPEG-2s. I don't get why I can't use Apple's h264 though. There has to be a setting I am missing. The sample Apple h264 videos from the days of Tiger worked flawlessly on my iBook when it was new so the CPU must be capable of decoding it. I really can't understand this.
Also, since I made my videos in English for my family, I had to create soft subtitles for my wife's Chinese family, and I can't get players like QT with perian or MPlayerX to sync them properly to an AVI encoded with DivX, they only sync well with the iPhone 4 m4v/mp4 formatted files I made. This is a real pickle.
So now I may need three or four copies of each video, LOL. I need to hardcode the subtitles if I want to use AVI to playback on older machines, and keep the mp4 file for the iDevices too, while keeping higher quality h264 videos for my American relatives...
If h264 is compatible with my iBook, what is the proper encoding settings? Must I dramatically lower the settings or frame rate? I can settle on 2 copies of each video that way. One iBook/G4/eMac compatible video that syncs correctly with my srt soft subs, and another version that works well with my iPhone 4 and iPad.
All in all, I will end up with more than 3 or 4 version of each video. On my late G5 dual core I have the full 720-1080p uncompressed master files. On my i5 iMac I have the h264 compressed versions for distribution, and lower versions for my iDevices. Now I need to keep either full MPEG-2 files for the iBook to play, or convert to older formats like DivX AVI for our family's legacy machines. I am running out of hard disk space quick now, LOL.
Is there an easier way?
Similar Messages
-
What is the best compressor setting for dvds
What is the best compressor setting for dvds that is not for HD dvd players? I used "DVD Best quality 90 min" and changed the GOP setting to 7.5 and my dvd looks terrible. the text is blurry and the colors are bad.
correction the bit rate is 7.5
-
What is the best display setting to use with a sanyo projector for Mac OS x 10.8.3
What is the best display setting to use with a sanyo projector for Mac OS x 10.8.3
You would use whatever the native settings for the projector are.
Regards. -
What is the best Compressor setting for best quality video playback on an iBook g4?
I know the iBook and G4's in general are very outdated today, but I need to ask anyways. I have some video projects in 720p and 1080p in which I have down converted to 480p and also exported to MPEG-2 for DVD (personal wedding videos and videos made for my clients using Final Cut Studio). Anything encoded at most resolutions using h264 won't play on my iBook. Even 480p.
I have about 20 hours of mixed video content that I need it in a format that is suitable for an iPhone 4 and an iBook 12" with a 1.2GHz G4, 1.25GB RAM and I added a 250 WD 5400 IDE hard disk (running 10.5.8 and 10.4.11 for Classic Mode). I know the iBook doesn't seem like the best tool for modern video playback, but I need to figure out which setting will play best with iPhone 4 and iBook so I don't need to make 2 local copies of each video for each device.
The iBook plays best with the original DVD output MPEG-2 file and playing back in QT Pro or VLC... but I already have 180 GB's of MPEG-2 files now and my little HD is almost full. I don't have enough room to convert all the iPhone 4 counterparts. If I use Compressor 3.5.3, what is the optimal setting for iBook and iPhone .m4v or .mp4 files that can play on both devices? So far 720x400-480 widescreen videos @ 29fps works great on my iPhone, Apple TV 2, and other computers but seems to murder my poor iBook if encoded with high profile (and still choppy on simple profiles). 640x480 (adding black matte bars to my videos) plays fine in MPEG-2 but drops frames or goes to black screen if I convert it to mp4 (and looks bad on the iPhone 4 because of the matte). But if I convert on any of the simple profiles, it looks terrible on my iPhone 4 and a blocky on the iBook.
This is the problem leading me to having 2 copies of each video and eating my hard disk space. What is the best video setting for both playback on the iBook and iPhone 4? Can the iBook playback H264 at all in decent resolutionsat all? I don't really want to have a 480p .m4v collection for the iPhone 4 and a MPEG-2 RAW collection just to play the same videos on the iBook.
Any suggestions are greatly appreciated! Thanks!Update: The iBook can play any 480p video and higher if I encode them with DivX and in AVI format. But of course this is not compatible with my iPhone 4. At least I can shrink my library now and get away from the full MPEG-2s. I don't get why I can't use Apple's h264 though. There has to be a setting I am missing. The sample Apple h264 videos from the days of Tiger worked flawlessly on my iBook when it was new so the CPU must be capable of decoding it. I really can't understand this.
Also, since I made my videos in English for my family, I had to create soft subtitles for my wife's Chinese family, and I can't get players like QT with perian or MPlayerX to sync them properly to an AVI encoded with DivX, they only sync well with the iPhone 4 m4v/mp4 formatted files I made. This is a real pickle.
So now I may need three or four copies of each video, LOL. I need to hardcode the subtitles if I want to use AVI to playback on older machines, and keep the mp4 file for the iDevices too, while keeping higher quality h264 videos for my American relatives...
If h264 is compatible with my iBook, what is the proper encoding settings? Must I dramatically lower the settings or frame rate? I can settle on 2 copies of each video that way. One iBook/G4/eMac compatible video that syncs correctly with my srt soft subs, and another version that works well with my iPhone 4 and iPad.
All in all, I will end up with more than 3 or 4 version of each video. On my late G5 dual core I have the full 720-1080p uncompressed master files. On my i5 iMac I have the h264 compressed versions for distribution, and lower versions for my iDevices. Now I need to keep either full MPEG-2 files for the iBook to play, or convert to older formats like DivX AVI for our family's legacy machines. I am running out of hard disk space quick now, LOL.
Is there an easier way? -
What's the best compressor setting to export from FCP to DVD Studio Pro?
I am exporting an 11 minute video from FCP Studio 2 via compressor to go to DVD Studio Pro. It's DV PAL 720 x 576 and I intend the final DVD to be 16:9 so I'll be choosing 16:9 letterbox in DVDStudio Pro.
As my video is only 11 minutes am I losing quality by selecting Best Quality DVD 90 minutes?
And is the way I described above the best way to go about it?You should try the setting as a start, though there are many tweaks you can do if you do not like the results. One of the biggest tweaks is the frame controls (adds more time but can help.)
You should send out to a preset for 16:9 (or make your own setting with aspect ratio of 16:9) then flag the track in DVD SP to 16:9 Letterbox
Some links
http://dvdstepbystep.com/faqs_7.php
http://dvdstepbystep.com/faqs_3.php
And a quick Compressor (2 but same principles for 3) movie here
http://dvdstepbystep.com/qc.php -
What is the best proxy format to use when working with S-Log in a linear colourspace?
I have been working with some Sony F55 footage shot against a green screen. I am working in a 16bit s-rbg colourspace
I made proxies out of the source which were photo-jpeg movs, nice n fast.
However it is clamped the colour values in the proxy with what looks like an s-curve which has subsequently made my keying settings significantly different (i.e far more contrasty) when switching between proxy and original.
So what would be the best way to go about converting some log-s footage to a fast proxy format without messing with key effects parameters by such a troublesome amount. I can live with a small difference of course.
Thanks in advance.Thanks Dave,
I appreciate the quick response. It is sensible advice.
Do you have any suggestions (when i do use proxies for log-c/s footage in general) for a decent format?
Would applying a linear output profile adjustment layer make a difference to a lesser format? Or do compressed formats bypass output profiles?
I only ask as I do a lot more compositing with linear footage these days and my machine struggles when it goes into a deep composite -
What is the best file type to use when dealing with text data?
Hello,
I am trying to read off text information from a file stored on the phone. I am currently using a txt file to store the data; however the input streaming process is very slow. Is there another way, or file type I can use which is much quicker?
Regards,
vjdo buffering in stead of reading char by char.
-
What is the best mail account to use with Apple Mail?
Hi All, I am a recent convert to Mac from a PC and I am on a sharp learning curve. At present I am trying to use mail on Leapord. I have a Googlemail account which I have tried linking to Apple mail but I seem to get the same issue many others have with send e-mails. What is more, googlmail's All Mail facility is doing my nut in at the moment.
Therefore I was wondering what is the best mail account to use with Apple Mail? I only have a Mackbook and an i-pod nano so subscribing to mobile me at £58/yr just to get the @mac.com account (which I assume would be perfect) seems a little extreme for me.
Are their any other account that work correctly and don't have this All Mail option.
Thanking you in advance.
MatthewHi,
I have 2 issues.
1) I have mail 3.6 and when I set up the mail account via IMAP and STMP I recieve mails ok, but I can not send them. If I do I get the following window pop up.
"can not send message using smtp.googlemail.com server" it tells me my address was rejected by the server.
2) I have 2500 e-mails in my All Mails folder on googlemail. Nearly all of these I delete from my inbox years ago (my bad mailbox management). Google seems to store all my mails. I want to delete these permentaly as they also get downloaded into Apple Mail.
Hope you can help.
Matt -
What is the best backup drive to use to backup my windows xp pc and to transfer these files to my iMac i5 new in May 2011 and then to backup my i5 iMac?
Get something with both USB and Firewire connections, as big as you can afford. Format it Fat 32, plug it into the XP machine with USB, drag and drop the files you want to keep, plug it into the iMac with Firewire, drag and drop again. If you want to use it just to back up your Mac in future, reformat it Mac OS Extended and enable Time Machine. If you're likely to want to share the drive with Windows PCs in future, leave it Fat 32.
-
What is the best way of insertion using structured or binary type in oracle
what is the best way of insertion using structured or binary type in oracle xml db 11g database
SQL*Loader.
-
HT1586 What's the best HDMI switcher to use for Apple TV?
What's the best HDMI switcher to use for Apple TV? My widescreen TV has only one HDMI outlet and it is in use.
Thanks,
JoannaAnyone sold by MONOPRICE.COM are really worth buying!
-
What is the best media player to use on iBook 500MHZ, 576MB RAM
Can anyone advise me what is the best media player to use to play .avi files on my iBook. I have tried using Quicktime (7.6.4) with Perian installed and it is very choppy. I have also tried VLC (0.8.6i)and that's not much better.
My iBook is 500MHZ, 40GB HDD, 576MB RAM running MAC OS X 10.4.11 with all updates installed. I have also disabled dashboard and spotlight but that's not made much difference.
Many thanks
GarryWell, now, isn't that interesting?
I left my iBook G3 800 MHz in Mac OS X 10.3 because I believed that upgrading to 10.4 would tax it too much. Others have successfully run 10.4 on their iBook G3s, and with the upgraded hard drive, I would have thought you'd be okay with it.
I generally don't do more than one upgrade of the OS past what my Mac came with. When I want to upgrade further, I upgrade my Mac.
I'm glad you figured out something that would work for you. Posting back to let us know may help someone else in the future, so thank you for that. -
My computer is part of the iMac 1TB Seagate Hard Drive replacement program. What is the best external modem to use in order to back up my files prior to me dropping off my computer.
As Babowa says, get an external disk. You should have one for normal backups anyway.
Actually, I'm a strong fan of having multiple backups. 3 copies including the original, 2 different backup formats, and 1 backup off-site.
And when you have your iMac in for service, if you have just 1 backup at that point in time you have just 1 copy of your data. I get paranoid about my data.
But if you are just making 1 backup, I would use SuperDuper (free for a full clone, and extremely good software, as is Carbon Copy Cloner, but it is not free anymore).
And then I would "Boot" from the clone, to make sure it was a good clone.
Booted from the clone, I would then use Applications -> Utilities -> Disk Utility to zero the original disk, as suggested by Babowa, so that when they replace the disk, the original disk containing your data is not in the hands of strangers. A single pass of zeros is more than good enough as an erase, as the chances are no one is going to spend the money needed to try and read the erased data. It is not like you have any super secret data, just stuff you do not want the casual data theif to get. You will find the zeroing options under Disk Utility -> Erase -> Security Options
Just make sure you actually boot from your clone before erasing your original. And if you are paranoid like me, make 2 backups, then erase the original :-) -
What is the best I/O to use for a MUD?
What is the best I/O to use for a MUD?
It seems that people usually show I/O examples with IOs like:
BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(socket.getInptuStream()));
PrintWriter out = new PrintWriter(socket.getOutputStream());
out.println("Hello World");
out.flush();
PrintStream out = new PrintStream(socket.getOutputStream());
out.println("Hello World");
out.flush();When I say 'best I/O' I mean, can you give me an I/O that'll be the best if a MUD starts getting LOTS of request and becomes rather busy?
Thanks!
-Neo-One last question, are output streams thread safe?A stream is inherently serial in the way it data is written to it. If two threads try to write to the same stream asynchronously, the ordering of the data written will not be predictable.
For example:
One class is recieving input from a user and
reply-printing thing like "Command Successful", and
another class is recieving messages from other users,
but the PrintWriter would be originally created in the
first class and then passed as a parameter to the
second class...would this work, or should I just
redirect all command replies to that second class?If they are in the same thread, then it could work. If there are separate threads, then some higher granularity synchronization needs to be imposed, so that the second thread doesn't start writing part way through the first's output.
For example:public class NeoThreadWriter implements Runnable {
final String name;
final int delay;
final boolean synch;
NeoThreadWriter (String name, int delay, boolean synch) {
this.name = name;
this.delay = delay;
this.synch = synch;
public void run () {
if (synch) {
new Synch().run();
} else {
new ASynch().run();
class Synch implements Runnable {
public synchronized void run () {
synchronized (System.out) {
for (int i=0; i<6; i++) {
System.out.println(name+":"+i);
try {
Thread.sleep(delay);
} catch (InterruptedException iex) {
iex.printStackTrace();
class ASynch implements Runnable {
public synchronized void run () {
for (int i=0; i<6; i++) {
System.out.println(name+":"+i);
try {
Thread.sleep(delay);
} catch (InterruptedException iex) {
iex.printStackTrace();
public static void main (String[] args) {
try {
Thread threadA = new Thread (new NeoThreadWriter ("A", 40, false));
Thread threadB = new Thread (new NeoThreadWriter ("B", 20, false));
System.out.println("asynchronous threads");
threadA.start();
threadB.start();
threadA.join();
threadB.join();
System.out.println("synchronized threads");
Thread threadC = new Thread (new NeoThreadWriter ("C", 40, true));
Thread threadD = new Thread (new NeoThreadWriter ("D", 30, true));
threadC.start();
threadD.start();
threadC.join();
threadD.join();
System.out.println("Done");
} catch (InterruptedException iex) {
iex.printStackTrace();
}With asynchronous threads A and B, the output is all mixed up. With synchronized threads the ordering of the output is maintained. Note that the guard has to encompass all of the code that generates the output; simply synchronizing the println invocations wouldn't prevent the mixing.
Pete -
What is the best way to avoid latency when using the io plug in?
What is the best way to avoid latency when using the io plug in?
Hi colin a.
Welcome to the Support Communities!
The article below may be able to help you with this. Click on the link to see more details and screenshots.
Logic: About I/O buffer size and monitoring latency
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1314
Cheers,
- Judy
Maybe you are looking for
-
What does this mean: "The program can't start because MSVCR80.dll is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem"? I tried reinstalling, but I get an error message saying something about permission to launch service
-
Se11 structure with se11 table type included
Hi ABAP Gurus, in order to pass a complex datastructure by RFC I want to create a new structure via SE11 which includes in addition to some normal fields an field which represents a table of a certain type. Therefore I created a table type and tried
-
Hi, I'm trying to get a flash flip book working and I'm trying a few components - however none seem to be able to import pdf files and so need either jpgs or swf files. For my flipbook I need the text to be searchable, so jpg's out the window. I've t
-
Hi Experts Can one bapi dependent on another bapi? Scenario: Suppose in one bapi some fields are there, at the time of using second bapi, second bapi requires some fields from the first bapi...in this situations how the bapis can be handled..please a
-
JSP vs Crystal Report Export to PDF problem
I have problem using JSP and Crystal Report 10. When I exporting report to PDF my font become ?????? (Only thai font but En font is work fine) This mean when deploy report on J2EE (I used tomcat 5.0.27) It not support other language or I must use oth