Does FW CS5 Mac crap out w large file sizes?

Does FW CS5 Mac crap out with large file sizes like CS4 did? It seems like files over a 4-5MB tend to be flaky... Is there an optimum file size? I'm running a Mac Tower 2.93 GHz Quad Core, w 8 GB RAM

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Video Stalls - Larger File Size

Just downloaded Battlestar Galactica season 2 and the video stalls at full screen. Do not have this problem with previous Battlestar Galactica shows and movies that I have downloaded in the past.
I notice the File Size and Total Bit Rate of the new shows are three times greater in size than the shows I've downloaded in the past.
Using the utility ativity monitor, I notice I'm maxing out my CPU when I go to full screen which I think is causing my video stall.
I also notice that now my previous TV show downloads don't fully fill my screen like that did before the new downloads.
I hope someone might know how I can get my TV shows back to working normal at full screen and why the new TV shows file sizes are larger than before.
Thanks for Your Help
Ricky
PowerBook G4 15" LCD 1.67GHz Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Thanks for the reply. Shortly after I posted, I started to relize that Apple was offering better TV Show quality which results in larger file sizes. I also went to my Energy Saver section in System Prefrences and found my Optimize Energy Settings was set for Presentations. I changed it to Highest Performance which resolved the issue.
iTunes 7.0.2
Quicktime 7.1.3
RAM 512MB
Thanks for your help.

Need to get large file sizes down to downloadable sizes-how?

I am using Compressor 4 and have several professional videos I produced with Final Cut Studio in QuickTime/.MOV format using ProRes 442. They are all 720p and of course, all have large file sizes. I needed to convert them so they are compatible with iTunes as well as Apple devices (AppleTV, iPad/iPod/iPhone, etc). They also need to be downloadable in a reasonable time and I of course want to maintain a quality image. Several of the videos are about an hour long, some a little more.
I an unable to get most of these files to be small enough for practical download and still maintain an acceptable quality. For example:
I have one video (QuickTime rendered from FCPS) that runs 54 minutes. 1280x720, ProRess 422, Linear PCM with a Bit rate of 72.662. The best I seem to be able to get out of compressor is to use the setting options for "HD for Apple Devices (5 Mbs)" which gives me a file that's just over 2Gb. Not bad, and the quality is still very good, but the file size is just too big for people to download. I get reports of people getting estimates of 77 hours to download this one file.
I did try using the setting under Video Sharing Services / Large 540p Video Sharing just to see what it would give me, but it really wasn't that much smaller and the quality was noticeably degraded.
I'm confused as to what to do about this. I have downloaded things from iTunes before that are good quality, about an hour and their file sizes are simply bnot this big.
Can anyone give me some advice? Thank you. Grateful for anything you can offer.
MC

If you're not concerned with precise average bitrate, use h.264 codec, set bitrate to "automatic" and use the quality slider. Be sure to have "keyframes" on "automatic"; every 24 frames or so makes h.264 quite inefficient and is only useful for live-streaming, where you want people to be able to resynchronise as quickly as possible. Having multi-pass enabled might help, but I'm not sure what it does when using constant-quality encoding.
Do a test-encoding of a representative clip of maybe about rwo minutes or so, play with the quality slider and see how far down you can go and still be satisfied with the quality. Using "automatic" bitrate uses as many bits to encode each frame as is necessary to get the required quality, and file sizes will vary depending on the type of material. Complex textures and high motion will use more bits, still frames and slow pans will use very little.
A light chroma-channel denoising may help improve perceived quality, as may very light sharpening in case you scaled down the material.
If you're still not happy with the bitrate vs. quality tradeoff, try reducing the resolution, but generally you should get 720p down to around 2.5 to 3.0 Mbps with adequate quality.
On the other hand, If someone needs 77 hours to download 2 GB, they have another problem anyway. That sounds like a 56k modem connection. What's he doing trying to download HD content anyway?
Bernd

Does anybody know why my film says the file size is only 96kb?

Does anybody know why my film says the file size is only 96kb (when right clicking on my mac and selecting get info) surely it should be in megabytes its a 50 second film with a few effects on it. Have i maybe clicked on something and changed it all - i moved it to the trash accidentally and then moved it back to my desktop could this be something to do with it?

So, just to confirm, when you double-click on the 96kb file, it opens and plays your video?
If you accidentally created a shortcut ("Alias" in Mac terms) it would likely be larger than 96kb but to check, does the icon have a tiny black arrow in the lower left corner? When you right-click or CTRL-click on the icon to bring up the menu, is there an option near the top to "Show Original"?
If you have another hard drive avaialble, try copying the file to that and re-confirm file size.

Saving jpeg and png files large file size

Ive recently purchased web premium 5.5 and Im trying to save files in jpeg and png format in Photoshop and Im getting unexpectedly large file sizes, for example I save a simple logo image 246x48 which consists of only 3 basic colours and when I save it as a jpeg quality 11 it reports the file size in the finder as 61.6k, I save it as a png file and its 60.2k also I cropped the image to 190x48 and saved it as a png and the file size is actually larger at 61.9k saving as a jpeg at quality 7 the files size is a still relatively large 54k.
I have a similar png non indexed colour logo on my mac I saved in CS3 on a pc which is actually larger at 260x148 and it's only 17k and that logo is actually more complex with a gloss effect over part of it. Whats going on and how do I fix it, It's making Photoshop useless especially when saving for the web
Thanks

Thanks I had considered that but all my old files are reporting the correct files sizes I have been experimenting and fireworks saves the file at png 24 at 2.6k and jpegs at 5.1k, but I don't really want to have to save the files twice once cut from the comp in photoshop and again in fireworks juggling between the two applications is a bit inconvenient even with just one file but especially when you have potentially hundreds of files to save.
Ive also turned off icon and windows thumbnail in photoshop preferences and although this has decreased the file size they are still quite large at 27k and save for the web is better at 4k for the png and 16k for the jpeg. Is there anyway to get Fireworks file saving performance in Photoshop ? it seems strange that the compression in Photoshop would be second rate in comparison to fireworks given they are both developed by Adobe and Photoshop is Adobes primary image editing software.

Creating .pdf from a ppt or .doc in acrobat 9 resulting in strangely large file sizes

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Why facebook applications grow larger and larger file size. What can I do. Since this program is to use the file size is big time. I use facebook version 4.0.3 on iphone4 run on iOS 5.0.1.
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Most of the logs rotation for the different componets can be set in EM console but if you just want to do it with a cron or script here is what I have used in the past. Edit it to your needs.
#!/bin/sh
ORACLE_HOME=/home/oracle10FRS
apache_logs=$ORACLE_HOME/Apache/Apache/logs
webcache_logs=$ORACLE_HOME/webcache/logs
sysman_logs=$ORACLE_HOME/sysman/log
j2ee_logs=$ORACLE_HOME/j2ee/OC4J_BI_Forms/log/OC4J_BI_Forms_default_island_1
also_j2ee=$ORACLE_HOME/j2ee/home/log/home_default_island_1
max_size=1500000000
for file in `ls $apache_logs/*_log`
do
     size=`ls -l $file | awk '{print $5}'`
     echo "File $file is $size bytes"
     if [ "$size" -ge "$max_size" ]
     then
          echo "That's too big. Truncating"
          >$file
     fi
done
for wfile in `ls $webcache_logs/*_log`
do
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     echo "File $wfile is $size bytes"
     if [ "$size" -ge "$max_size" ]
     then
          echo "That's too big. Truncating"
          >$wfile
     fi
done
for sfile in `ls $sysman_logs/*log`
do
     size=`ls -l $sfile | awk '{print $5}'`
     echo "File $sfile is $size bytes"
     if [ "$size" -ge "$max_size" ]
     then
          echo "That's too big. Truncating"
          >$sfile
     fi
done
for jfile in `ls $j2ee_logs/*.log`
do
     size=`ls -l $jfile | awk '{print $5}'`
     echo "File $jfile is $size bytes"
     if [ "$size" -ge "$max_size" ]
     then
          echo "That's too big. Truncating"
          >$jfile
     fi
done
for j2file in `ls $also_j2ee/*.log`
do
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After effects cs5 - quicktime h264 very large file size

hi,
I'm wondering if anybody can recommend a good quicktime codec for very small file sizes, for preview renders.
current project - my wmv renders are coming out around 10mb and reasonable quality which is excellent.
some of my clients don't have flip for mac so I need to render them a quicktime.
the quicktime h264 are coming out a lot bigger than expected. same timeline, pixel dimensions and frame rate = around 150mb and similar quality.
I thought in the past my h264 QT renders had been maybe double the file size of my wmv renders, not 15 x bigger.
am I missing something really obvious?
pixel size = 1000 x 250,
frame rate = 30fps,
timeline = 4m 30s
h264 quality = 50%
audio = aac stero
using after effects cs5, win7 pro
thanks in advance
s

the size of the file is directly related to the bitrate at which you encode, not frame size or fps. So, if you want a 10s clip to be 15 MB (not including sound), divide 15 MB to 10s and you get 1.5MBps bitrate, or 12Mbps. You might get better quality if you encode 2-pass VBR with max bitrate set to what you computed previously.
Anyway, it's usually better to render your comp to some losless format (QT none, or TGA sequence, etc) then compress your clip with Media Encoder. This way you can play with the settings for H.264 until you get an acceptable result, without having to render from AE every time.

CS5 save as CS4 makes Large File and sees virtual memory issue

Two CS5 flash files. FileSource 27Mb File Destination 21.8Mb
They open in 80 seconds for each.
FileSource has 15 MovieClips, 5 show areas of the map in a variety of colours, shape intensive one could say ! These are made into one movie clip and copy pasted to the FileDestination. In CS5 it then crashes.
I turned these instead into CS4 files, they open in 10 seconds ! WOW !!! I needed to adjust the text which had become two lines from one though.
I try again for the CopyPaste of the movie Clip from library to library, this time I get a message Flash is out of memory. To increase virtual memory, quit Flash and allocate more virtual memory in the Systems Properties dialog box.
In there I see
Initial   2046Mb
Max size 4092Mb
Recommended 4605Mb
I alter this to:
Initial 3800Mb
Max    4600Mb
Reboot PC (Win XP SP2 wih 4Gb ram, purpose built video editing suite) and try again, but again get the memory message. Such a powerful PC should handle Flash. PC at work also crashing with CS5.
I thought I was winning with the quick handling of the files in CS4 but File size is now alarmingly FileSource 76.1Mb and FileDestination 58.4Mb   WHY ? and why does it open them so quick but fall over on the copy paste ?
CS4 opens these in 8 not 80 secs, but that save as CS4 has bloated their file size, quick to open but causing virtual memory failure.
I am defeated
Does CS5 have some way of keeping size down ? I can’t use CS5 as it crashes when pasting the MovieClip from the source file to destination.
Can I get Flash to simplify the layers perhaps ? There are many shapes of the same colour which perhaps could be fused into one, lessening the number of vector edges. How is that done ? I am making an swf file for a clients powerpoint slide show.
Envirographics

Possible good news. I've been away and hadn't opened DW since also having had a problem with Finder and external drives on my return. When I opened it today, and needed to do a 'Save As' , it did it with no problem of rendering. Though there have been no DW updates, there was updates to PS and ID. So I'll tentatively say the problem has gone away - hopefully for good.
Just editing this post. I happened to turn Live View on etc.. for the first time in a couple of weeks due to the above. I realsied this morning I hadn't turned it on. Now it is just as before when I try to 'Save As' - blank, an then have to close and reopen for it to render (even though the Live View/Live Code is now stiched off).
No I don't know how to turn this thread back into an 'Unanswered' question.
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Large file size and slow pagination when form filled out in Reader 7

Hi all,
I have designed a form with Livecycle Designer 8. For compatibility, I have made it an Acrobat 7 (Dynamic) XML Form. The form itself is 18 pages long and when filled in with Reader 8, pagination is quick and the file size only jumps about 100KB. However, when I fill in the form with Reader 7, it takes about 10-20 seconds to repaginate the form each time a field is filled in and the filled in form size jumps to about 6MB!
Can anyone explain this behavior and tell me if there is a way that I can work around this for my clients using Reader 7?
Thanks.

Hi,
Performance of forms was a known problem in Reader / Acrobat 7. There were afew things you can do to help but it can't be fixed other than by upgrading to version 8.
This document contains afew ideas to help with form performance:
http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/pdf/lc_designer_perf_guidelines.pdf
There also used to be an Adobe document around for version 7 which stated that 8 pages was the practical maximum for form sizes. You could go a bit bigger than this, but the performance would degrade pretty fast.
As Jared stated before, for large forms, moving to version 8 is about your only realistic option.
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Getting large file sizes in AppleScript...

For starters I am new to AppleScript. Please excuse my lack of knowledge.
I am trying to get file sizes for large files and kicking that out to a text file. Problem is that all these files are a gigabyte and up. When I use:
set fileSIZE to size of (info for chosenFile) as string
--result is 1.709683486E+9
I also tried using:
tell application "Finder"
set theSize to physical size of chosenFile
end tell
--result is 1.724383232E+9
So, my question is there another way that shows me the bytes in this format "1,709,683,486" bytes.
The "size of (info for chosenFile)" shows the right numbers "1.709683486". I don't really need the commas. I had a larger file of 44GB and the result was 4.4380597717E+10.
How do I remove the ".", the "E+9" or "E+10"?

looks like hubionmac has found a winner.
perhaps not:
page 89 applescript language guide:
the largest integer value is 536,870,911. Larger integers are convert to real numbers.
Notice the different request for size report different values.
Notice that ls -l return the data fork size in Tiger.
Notice the clever way of working with the resource fork in unix ( /rsrc ). I found this in juliejuliejulie's code in another post.
set theFile to (choose file)
set fileSIZE to size of (info for theFile) as miles as string
log "fileSIZE = " & fileSIZE
tell application "Finder"
   set pSize to physical size of theFile
end tell
log "pSize = " & pSize
set stringSize to pSize as miles as string
log "stringSize = " & stringSize
set theItem to quoted form of POSIX path of (theFile)
log "theItem = " & theItem
-- unix ls -l command will give size.
-- Looks like ls -l gives the data fork size.
set theDataSize to (do shell script "ls -l " & theItem & " | awk '{print $5}'")
log "theDataSize = " & theDataSize
set theRsrc to (POSIX path of theFile) & "/rsrc"
log "theRsrc = " & theRsrc
set theRsrc to quoted form of theRsrc
log "theRsrc = " & theRsrc
set theRsrcSize to (do shell script "ls -l " & theRsrc & " | awk '{print $5}'")
log "theRsrcSize = " & theRsrcSize
set output to do shell script "echo \"" & theDataSize & "+" & theRsrcSize & "\" | bc "
log "combined data and resource size = " & output
Here is what I get when I run the above script.
tell current application
   choose file
      alias "Macintosh-HD:System Folder:Finder"
   info for alias "Macintosh-HD:System Folder:Finder"
      {name:"Finder", creation date:date "Tuesday, May 29, 2001 3:00:00 PM", modification date:date "Tuesday, May 29, 2001 3:00:00 PM", icon position:{1, 128}, size:2.439365E+6, folder:false, alias:false, package folder:false, visible:true, extension hidden:false, name extension:missing value, displayed name:"Finder", default application:alias "Macintosh-HD:Applications (Mac OS 9):Utilities:Assistants:Setup Assistant:Setup Assistant", kind:"Finder", file type:"FNDR", file creator:"MACS", type identifier:"dyn.agk8yqxwenk", locked:false, busy status:false, short version:"9.2", long version:"9.2, Copyright Apple Computer, Inc. 1983-2001"}
   (*fileSIZE = 2439365*)
end tell
tell application "Finder"
   get physical size of alias "Macintosh-HD:System Folder:Finder"
      2.445312E+6
   (*pSize = 2.445312E+6*)
   (*stringSize = 2445312*)
   (*theItem = '/System Folder/Finder'*)
end tell
tell current application
   do shell script "ls -l '/System Folder/Finder' | awk '{print $5}'"
      "1914636"
   (*theDataSize = 1914636*)
   (*theRsrc = /System Folder/Finder/rsrc*)
   (*theRsrc = '/System Folder/Finder/rsrc'*)
   do shell script "ls -l '/System Folder/Finder/rsrc' | awk '{print $5}'"
      "524729"
   (*theRsrcSize = 524729*)
   do shell script "echo \"1914636+524729\" | bc "
      "2439365"
   (*combined data and resource size = 2439365*)
end tell
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Large file sizes

Hello,
Does anyone else think that keynote audio presentation are a bit on the large size when exported as flash? Here is an example;
Keynote '08 five minute presentation with narration = 8MB
Adobe Breeze twenty minute presentation with narration = 10MB
(both are almost the same resolution)
Both had similar content, but the keynote ones are coming out so large that any one with a regular speed connection will have to start downloading them and then go make a coffee. Any suggestions or comment about getting your file sizes down are welcome.

you can use any swf size you like. you can use google to
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Large file size and fuzzy type

I'm new at using FCE2 and composed my first short 4 minute video. It includes a still image, a PSD layered file which I discovered was quite handy, a few clips and type using the type generator. I exported it to QuickTime movie. Three observations: I was floored by the nearly 1GB size, fuzzy type, and the file on the hard drive says it's a FCE movie inclusive of the little FCE icon by the file name. I was expecting to see a QuickTime icon with file name and the type of file is a QuickTime movie. Is all this normal? I'm very disappointed in the fuzzy type. Oh, also, the still image became blurry. Why?? Just so you know, the still image was a special file 640x480 with a pixel aspect ratio of D4/D16 Anamorphic
I saved the project under a new name and redid it taking out the Photoshop image, removing it from the bin also, and the new movie exported even larger, over a gig in size. Huh??

Thanks for the reply Tom. After I posted the first time I went to the Finder, Get Info, and I saw that I could change the 'Opens with' to QuickTime and therefore it became a QuickTime file. About that Anamorphic business I read a 'how to' on dealing with images before bringing them into video. The tip says in the 'New' file dialogue box to choose 640x480 size and in the pull down menu at the bottom where you can choose the 'Pixel Aspect Ratio' it was suggest to use that Anamorphic setting. I did it but it certainly didn't look right but I went with it.
Again after I posted I looked at the Format of one of the clips and saw the size to be 720x480, Compressor is DV/DVCPRO-NTSC, Pixel Aspect is NTSC-CCIR 601, Anamorphic field is blank. I'm running Photoshop CS2. So I went back there and created a new blank file to use a template for dealing with stills but this time I used the Preset pull down menu and chose NTSC DV 720x480 with guides and the Pixel Aspect Ratio automatically loaded D1/DV NTSC (0.9), clicked Ok and viola, the blank file looks exactly like the Canvas in FCE. I haven't played with a still with this new setting but I will try it on the little project I'm working on.
As for viewing it, I am looking at it on my Mac flat screen. I went into QuickTime Preferences and checked the box for high quality, thank you. Thanks for reassuring me on the file size.
I also don't know what "D4/D16 Anamorphic" means.
I don't understand the fuzzy type. I'm aware these are 72 ppi files and video is not resolution dependent but rather pixel dependent. Computer monitors display at 72 ppi, televisions are higher. I have yet to complete the process of burning a DVD and playing it back on a TV. Maybe that's where I'll see the type showing up sharper.
At any rate, just dealing with this itty bitty project tells me I have a lot to learn about video, never mind learning about how to use FCE as well.

Convert MP3 to a larger file size?

Hello,
I recently imported a CD into iTunes in MP3 format. I then changed my import settings to a higher quality. When I did "create MP3 version" of the song I just imported it created a LARGER file! How is this possible and what kind of "fluff" is iTunes putting into the MP3 when you try to convert a MP3 to a higher quality setting?

Actually "fluff" is a pretty good description! It takes the compressed file that you started with and re-encodes the same audio information into more bits. Needless to say, that does not improve the quality.
Once the MP3 (or AAC) compression has happened, padding it out to a higher bit rate does not add quality. The reference to "quality" in the bitrate means that if you rip from the source CD using a higher bitrate, less audio compression is needed and you get a higher quality result.
If you want better quality audio files, re-import from the source CD using the higher bitrate.

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