Best codec for internet

iam editing some videos for the web, and I would like to know which are the best codes, that final cut has. compresor or quicktime conversion etc....
the video are hdv but i can down converted to ntsc.
the video is for you tube or facebook
please let me know, iwant the best quality image
i have fCS 2

I'm pretty pleased using H264 - good pix and low data rates.
Don't encode straight to a small frame H264 out of Motion though, go via your existing size & codec - maybe even use a better codec like 10/8bit uncompressed first.
Peter

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PNG should do it. I think PNG is lossless (that's what they say, anyway). But realistically, if you use PNG, Animation, or JPG2000 set on highest quality, I'd dare you to tell a difference.
I use PNG because it's supposedly lossless, renders twice as fast as Animation in a FCP timeline, and is usually about half the size.
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All the Web video sites re-compress your videos. So it's generally best to upload high quality files – typically determined by bit rate.
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I have been trying for days to make a video of a very specific size (580x326) work with internet streaming. Im exporting with quicktime, however i cant seem to post under quicktime, so im posting here as i have final cut pro as well.
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You do understand that "personal opinion" about compression settings massively depend on the type of footage you are dealing with, delivery target, length, desired output file size, client standard and demand and so on.
However, sounds like you want to get a suggestion to get started... start from here:
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Hi Kevin,
Thanks for your input. I shot the wedding in France in PAL on the Sony EX1 using
XD Cam EX 1080i 50 35mbs VBR. And want to deliver to bride and groom
a full HD copy on a hard drive to be played on a pc using VLC software.
I was able to load my foootage and Sony allows me to select this in Final Cut
as a setting when I edit. I imported some
still photos from Photoshop and these are not interlaced. Something I am
now concerned about. I could easily interlace them, however, I was thinking
it would be better to de-interlace the video footage instead as everyone
viewing the film would do so on a pc.
I went on Creative Cow and have gotten a thread
from Creative Cow which tells me:
Re: To deinterlace,or not to deinterlace
by Ed Dooley on Jan 8, 2009 at 11:01:35 am
Not necessarily true. Yes you'll lose the resolution if you use the simple de-interlace filter in FCP (and many other programs). If, however, you use Frame Controls in Compressor (do a search of this forum and you'll find lots of instructions), you do not lose res, the fields get blended. There are 3rd party products that do the same thing (Nattress has one).
Having said all that, I wouldn't deinterlace unless you need to (like for the web for example), the program's going out to TV? Leave it interlaced.
Ed
I at the moment cannot find where Frame Controls in Compressor and saved my project just
before my last step of using the Final Cut Pro de-interlace filter on all of the HD Pal footage.
I had to try 3 times to make a stand alone Quick Time which normally goes smoothly for me, so
I started to wonder if the interlaced video with non-interlaced photos was the problem?
The stand alone Quick Time and the MPEG-2 both gave me trouble and I got an error when
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I got an answer from Creative Cow on this where the person advised me to convert the file
to Pro Res.
I would appreciate any input.
Thanks for your time and attention.
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I have a 1hr ANIMATION project to export from FCP 5.1
It is being delivered to someone who will use it and other material to author a DVD.
What would be the ideal way to deliver -
on mini DV or DVCAM tape ?
or a QT file of the whole show - if so, which codec is best - (file size is not a limitation) ?

I have a 1hr ANIMATION project to export from FCP 5.1
It is being delivered to someone who will use it and other material to author a DVD. What would be the ideal way to deliver -
on mini DV or DVCAM tape ? or a QT file of the whole show - if so, which codec is best - (file size is not a limitation) ?,
I'm a bit perplexed by the whole post.
How could you start a one hour ANIMATION project without knowing how you were going to deliver it to whoever was paying you to do it?
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Again, you're asking two separate questions. If your client wants to edit the footage, you don't want to burn a playable DVD, you want to burn a data disc. This means you are able to put HD content on there (really, you're able to put anything on there), but you're limited to 4.7GB on a standard disc. As Tom says, that is very little space (especially if you're working with HD).
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