Encoding high quality - please advise

I am using FMLE on a mac mini. My original intent was to stream live but that has now been dropped and I just use the encoded videos broken into five minute chunks. I upload those to amazon cloudfront and stream them. All this is automated and the control of FMLE is done with FMLEcmd which is the command line interface. I just bought a HD camera with DV support and FMLE did not support it. I just figured out that is because it uses MPEG-4 encoding. So now I am rethinking what I am doing. I do not need live streaming but I do need live control of a camera. All my encoding is set to go on and off at set times and then automatically upload to the server for streaming. I should also mention that I want to use cameras that can use lenses such as fisheye.
Can anyone advise me on the best possible quality setup I can get out of FMLE or an alternative method for recording video from a mac mini on a command line interface.
Thanks!

Is there an option in your camera to give output in DV format and not in HDV (mpeg-2)? FMLE works fine with DV cameras.
If you are looking for HD quality, you can use capture cards capable of capturing HD sizes such as Osprey 700 and Blackmagic cards.
FMLE has various codec options such as h.264, vp6, aac, mp3. Output quality will depend upon the source content, bandwidth and CPU. You will have to set-up fmle based upon these 3 parameters.

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Help - i recently made put together a high quality movie for a relative, it has taken me months to complete and it goes for a total of 9 hours and 43 minutes ,however, it won't let me export the video at all! please help - its taken ages to make it!

9 hours??!
Twice the length of a cinema epic?
How are you expecting to distribute it?
iDVD encoding settings:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iDVD/7.0/en/11417.html
Short version:
Best Performance is for videos of up to 60 minutes
Best Quality is for videos of up to 120 minutes
Professional Quality is also for up to 120 minutes but even higher quality (and takes much longer)
That was for single-layer DVDs. Double these numbers for dual-layer DVDs.
Professional Quality: The Professional Quality option uses advanced technology to encode your video, resulting in the best quality of video possible on your burned DVD. You can select this option regardless of your project’s duration (up to 2 hours of video for a single-layer disc and 4 hours for a double-layer disc). Because Professional Quality encoding is time-consuming (requiring about twice as much time to encode a project as the High Quality option, for example) choose it only if you are not concerned abo
In both cases the maximum length includes titles, transitions and effects etc. Allow about 15 minutes for these.
You can use the amount of video in your project as a rough determination of which method to choose. If your project has an hour or less of video (for a single-layer disc), choose Best Performance. If it has between 1 and 2 hours of video (for a single-layer disc), choose High Quality. If you want the best possible encoding quality for projects that are up to 2 hours (for a single-layer disc), choose Professional Quality. This option takes about twice as long as the High Quality option, so select it only if time is not an issue for you.
Use the Capacity meter in the Project Info window (choose Project > Project Info) to determine how many minutes of video your project contains.
NOTE: With the Best Performance setting, you can turn background encoding off by choosing Advanced > “Encode in Background.” The checkmark is removed to show it’s no longer selected. Turning off background encoding can help performance if your system seems sluggish.
And whilst checking these settings in iDVD Preferences, make sure that the settings for NTSC/PAL and DV/DV Widescreen are also what you want.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1502?viewlocale=en_US

I have a Macbook Pro purchased brand new. I take high quality pictures for customers, these display perfect on my laptop but appear CORRUPT on a USB stick. What is causing this? I can't seem to fix this issue. PLEASE HELP!!

I have a Macbook Pro purchased brand new. I take high quality pictures for customers, these display perfect on my laptop but appear CORRUPT on a USB stick. What is causing this? I can't seem to fix this issue. PLEASE HELP!!
I really need this issue resolved it is driving me insane!!! How can the images appear perfectly fine on my laptop then when transferring over to a USB stick they just corrupt!?

Check out this site:
http://osxdaily.com/2012/04/22/format-drive-mac-pc-compatible/
That will show you how to format a USB stick for use on both PC and Mac.
If the problem continues take it to an Apple store and have them check it out.
>Also what s exFAT?<
From:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExFAT
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REVISITED "DVD: best quality" & "MPEG-2 high quality encode"-difference??

Re-explain: I see "DVD best quality" and "MPEG-2 high quality encode" have all the same settngs. Not sure if there was a difference. Yesterday I was convinced no difference. After recompressing the same video at same settings MPEG-2 HQ encoding took three times longer to compress. going to work with it--this was home work--to view on monitor that, after reviewing, made me come home to recompress.
So--again--is there a difference fo the two choices???

which is what I did and there is no difference in seetings or what I have to choose for seetings. So, I guess--or confirmed--there is no difference???

High Quality Wide Screen for YouTube - PLEASE HELP!

I am using a Panasonic PV-GS400 camera in wide-screen mode (this is another topic, but the camera still outputs 720 x 480 video, my understanding is that it is called "anamorphic wide screen"). I had figured out some settings to get my videos to appear in "High Quality" mode, wide screen (16:9) in YouTube, but the last couple of times I have tried these settings, they didn't work. Here's what I used:
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I got the 856 x 480 ratio from another website. I don't really understand why the pixel aspect ratio needs to be square, but when I tried 16:9 aspect ratio, the video is letterboxed. I also don't understand the two different project modes for PE7 (when creating a new project you can choose the format 4:3 or 16:9). Maybe someone can explain how the widescreen project setting works. Perhaps it is something similar to how my camera does widescreen but the videos are still 720 x 480.
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As we often say on this forum, the biggest challenge with working with YouTube is that, as soon as someone figures it out, YouTube changes the rules again.
Here's what we've posted to the FAQs at the top of this forum.
http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.59b6efbd/1

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We are in desparate need of creating quality still images from captured video. Basically, we have footage in mini DV format that we import into Final Cut HD using a Sony Clamshell deck. What is the best way to make high quality still images?
We tried it this way....Export Quicktime as Still image...and it just looks bad, Even after De-interlacing it within Photoshop. We need it to look exactly like it does if we simply press pause on the deck or pause within Final Cut.

When you start with DV material, the highest res you can for a still image capture is 720x480 (non-square) or the equivalent of a really bad quality cheepo still camera. (~640x480 square pixels)
To avoid the need to deinterlace, (the horrors of which are described below) find sections in your masterpiece that have VERY LITTLE motion, i.e. everyone/thing standing/existing absolutely still with the camera locked down on a tripod. These sections will yield the very best possible still images.
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Confused yet? I hope not...
Still, if you know you'll want stills from a project, it's better to carry around a small digital still camera, you'll get better results. Otherwise, plan on pretty small prints.
Good luck.
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Please, I am in a very big problem I designed the project by Adobe director And you test the software on the computers on Windows and works with high quality When I tested the project on Apple Macintosh operating system, Li appeared a number of problems

Please, I am in a very big problem
I designed the project by Adobe director
And you test the software on the computers on Windows and works with high quality
When I tested the project on Apple Macintosh operating system, Li appeared a number of problems and you dissolve a large part of them
But I have a problem too big
The project works on some devices and others show me messages mistakes and why chasm different operating system version
Apple's Macintosh and these messages
"biosegnatures" can't be opened becouse it 's from undefined developer "
others
shokwave player error
pleas what can i do

Welcome to the Support Communities.
m.raslan wrote:
I tested the project on Apple Macintosh operating system
Click on the  menu at top left of your screen, choose About This Mac and, in the panel that appears, note the Version no. in the form 10.n.n. Then update your product list so we can see what version of OS X you're running on the Mac — see this tutorial:
Update your product list
m.raslan wrote:
"biosegnatures" can't be opened becouse it 's from undefined developer "
This Apple doc may help:
OS X: About Gatekeeper
m.raslan wrote:
shokwave player error
Is Shockwave Player installed?...
http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/welcome/
...If not, get it here:
http://get.adobe.com/shockwave/

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Hello,
I have edited video with sequence 1920x1080 (1.0) 25 fps and 48000 hz audio stereo.
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Please Help: Encoding DVD Best Quality - FCP 5
Happy New Year To All!
Does anyone know the best way to encode a 55 minute High quality DVD'? I'm using Compressor in FCP 5 on a G5. It seems that all my hard work is taking a big hit compared to the raw footage which looks amazing (Panasonic AG-DVC 200 w/19X1 Lens).
I'm looking for the very best way to encode using FCP or another source. Your help will be greatly appreciated.
G5 2.7ghz Mac OS X (10.4.3)

What is the KEY factor for best quality?
That's my point.
These are all factors. No one necessarily is more important than another.
Codec? Are you using NTSC DV?
Length of the movie determines maximum bitrate for video.
Average bit rate - that's what you are targeting a hole for most "not difficult to encode" footage.
Compression is a compromise between size and quality. It's art and science.
Dolby 2 is seven time less the throughput for unencode aiff audio files.
Bogie says just drop the movie in DVD SP.
That may produce good results, but you may never know why.

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