Exporting for iphone

I want to export material from FCP to compressor for use on iphone.
The aspect ratio of the iphone screen is 480 x 320, but that size is not an option when exporting for iPhone using Compressor. You have to use a custom setting.
Why is this the case?
Compressor offers 320 x 240 and 640 x 480. Both of these are fine for an older ipod, but not for the wider screen of an ipod touch or iphone.
Do they want us to letterbox a 3:2 image on iPhones and iPod Touch?
Thanks for any help
R

ccroo wrote:
The aspect ratio of the iphone screen is 480 x 320, but that size is not an option when exporting for iPhone using Compressor. You have to use a custom setting.
Why is this the case?
You have to understand that the Apple-provided presets are good launching points, not end-all, be-all settings.
And iPhones do support material encoded as 640 pixels wide so the preset for VGA (up to 640x480) works fine for most people. I personally rarely use anything smaller than the VGA setting for Apple Devices as I find that's the perfect middle ground for iPods, iPhones and AppleTV.
If you (understandably) need to limit your file and frame sizes, adjusting the device setting in Compressor to iPhone (Local/WiFi) does the trick - fitting your movie into a 480 pixel-wide frame size and capping the video data rate at 1000 Kbps.
Letterboxing - as in hard mattes - is not needed when encoding for Apple Devices. In fact, if you have letterboxing in your source media, use the Geometry pane to crop out the Letterbox Area of Source. That will provide you with a better quality encode and the preset will know to adjust your output frame size, so you need not worry about distorting your movie.

Similar Messages

  • OSX Lion and exporting for iPhone

    There was a thread about how when trying to set and/or publish for iPhone or edit its settings, Flash CS5 immediately crashes. The problem has been experienced by many Mac OSX Lion users and they talked about it in this unresolved thread: http://forums.adobe.com/thread/888198#3851750 but still no updates from Adobe. Adobe sent me a response to my Support ticket that "it's an Actionscript 3 coding issue" then closed it so I couldn't reply. Ummmm, NO it isn't a coding issue, I tried to export an FLA file with no code in it. That's a really bad way to do business, Adobe. But since they're not going to be helpful (and probably lose me as a customer) has anyone else found a workaround for this?

    ccroo wrote:
    The aspect ratio of the iphone screen is 480 x 320, but that size is not an option when exporting for iPhone using Compressor. You have to use a custom setting.
    Why is this the case?
    You have to understand that the Apple-provided presets are good launching points, not end-all, be-all settings.
    And iPhones do support material encoded as 640 pixels wide so the preset for VGA (up to 640x480) works fine for most people. I personally rarely use anything smaller than the VGA setting for Apple Devices as I find that's the perfect middle ground for iPods, iPhones and AppleTV.
    If you (understandably) need to limit your file and frame sizes, adjusting the device setting in Compressor to iPhone (Local/WiFi) does the trick - fitting your movie into a 480 pixel-wide frame size and capping the video data rate at 1000 Kbps.
    Letterboxing - as in hard mattes - is not needed when encoding for Apple Devices. In fact, if you have letterboxing in your source media, use the Geometry pane to crop out the Letterbox Area of Source. That will provide you with a better quality encode and the preset will know to adjust your output frame size, so you need not worry about distorting your movie.

  • Export for iPhone & iPad same time - Without resolution issues?

    Hello,
    I have developed an app for the iPhone and it runs perfectly fine on the iOS for iPhone. I am trying to port it to the iPad so I have done the proper stage adjustments and have set export as "iPhone & iPad"
    It opens up fine on my iPad, but the same app opens distorted on my iPhone (since the stage resolution isn't native, so it gets squished)
    How can I make my app iPhone/iPad friendly all in one IPA?
    Thanks.

    Use the same iphone version without any change on the stage and publish it for Iphone/Ipad with full screen parameter.

  • FCP quicktime "iphone "export diff then quicktime "export for iphone web"??

    so what i dont get, is when i export out of quicktime using "export for web" and i choose the "iphone" 900 kbit option, i get 480X270 beautiful true widescreen clips. But when I export using quicktime conversion in final cut pro 6 and i choose" iphone"....i get 480X360. Why does this happen? I want true widescreen, just like everything i get from itunes.....not this 360 size (which i know is the phones screen res, but who cares)?

    Alistair
    Earlybird is exporting H264 ... the Key Frames setting is determining the GOP length. This value should really be determined based on the complexity of the video, to my understanding, the actual frame rate has no bearing on it. If you have very complex fast moving content then a low Key Frame rate is advisable to ensure good image quality (although it will adversely affect the filesize) whereas if you have slow moving or static content (like an interview subject) then a higher Key Frame rate will still produce a good image but at a smaler filesize. The default of 24 should be pretty much fine as a catchall starting point.
    Earlybird
    Corrupted render files (and render references) can be a pain because FCP will use those files and references  in place of the original media when building the export. And so it should as it does't want to waste time re-rendering sections that are apparently already rendered. Unfortuantely, as noted, if the render file has gone bad and/or starts referencing the wrong media then you'll get these wierd flashes of completely unexpeced and unwanted footage showing up where it shouldn't be. When you trash those files then QT / FCP will just go back and re-reference the original media ... so it's usually a worthwhile step to take just in case thats the problem.  The worse case scenario is that it only that doesn't work and you spend some time unecessarily re-rendering.
    As to why these files go bad? That I don't know. Why do Preferences get corrupted? That I don't know either but it definitely happens :-(
    Cheers
    Andy

  • Export for iPhone with crop?

    I did searchs for iPhone AND crop and iPod AND crop, but nothing came up, so...
    Is it possible to use QT to export to iPhone with a custom crop? I'm starting with 1280x720 HD video from a Flip MinoHD. I would like to end up with something in a 3:2 ratio like 480x320 (either cropped to 1080x720 and then scaled or scaled then cropped to 3:2).
    I can do this crop if I export to MPEG-4 and it works great. This export option, however, comes out as mp4, instead of m4v and doesn't work on the iPhone.
    Any way to do this QT?
    How about QT Pro?
    Thanks!

    Do you have any idea if I'm doing something wrong? Here's an excerpt from my email to the author (I didn't mention cropping as to simplify my question/bug report)
    Since you did not describe your actual "crop" work flow for MPEG Stramclip I suspect that is where your problem lies. Basically you are going from a 1.78:1 to a 1.50:1 aspect ration. Therefore your will have to crop the left-right edges and not the top-bottom. Since you indicate want to end up with a 480x320 viewing area, try the following:
    1) Select either of the iPhone presets. Since you will have to customize the dimensions, as well as, crop the file, it doesn't matter which preset you choose.
    2) Back in the main MPEG-4 export window, re-set the "Other" dimensions to 569x320. What you are in effect doing is setting the target height of the output you want and adjusting the width to the nearest pixel for a 16:9 aspect ratio to match your source file and, thus, minimize any distortion.
    3) Set output audio and/or video rates as desired (I normally use 1000 or 1200 Kbps for video and 128 Kbps @ 44.1 KHz for audio) and make any adjustments to brightness, contrast, saturation, volumes, etc. if desired.
    4) Now activate the "Cropping" tool by "ticking" the correct box and leave the option in the "Destination" mode.
    5) Now enter your left-right crop settings. These setting must total 89 pixels to be subtracted from the 569 scaled pixel width which will leave you with your specified 480x320 viewing area. How much you decide to crop from the left and right sides is up to you but must total 89 pixels. Thus you can keep the center area or chose to offset the viewing area as best suits your needs.
    6) Now preview the content to be sure it is exactly what you want and if/when satisfied, select the "Make MP4" button to set up and begin your export.

  • IPhone doesn't play Quicktime Web-Export for iPhone (not cell!)

    Hello guys,
    I play around with the html5 video tag and the possibilities to get implemented videos working on the iPhone. I exported the video via the standard function in Quicktime (Encoding Video for Wi-Fi, 3G, and EDGE) which is installed on 10.6.
    I implemented the exported reference-mov file in my page but on the iPhone only the cell version is viewable - when WIFI is switched off. If WIFI is switched on the iPhone shows the poster image with the crossed play button in the front but the regarding video (not the cell version) can't be started
    The desktop (computer) version of the same video is displayed on Safari on the MacBook via the reference file.
    Is there someone who knows something about this behavior?
    Kind regards
    André

    This is all to do with MIME types.
    iPhones play .m4v files (as exported from quicktime) but will only accept then if delivered as "video/mp4" not "video/m4v".
    The easiest way to do this to edit you .htaccess file by adding the line:
    ===========================
    AddType video/mp4 mp4 mp4v mpg4 m4v
    ===========================
    Apache Servers should now add that MIME type to their internal list.
    Note: You should still upload the .m4v file (not rename to .mp4 as some have done) - it will now play over wifi.
    Hope this helps and thanks to kingkong36 for the original solution.
    If you are unsure how to edit your .htaccess file then then is lots of documentation online - just search '.htaccess' but a quick method is to make a .txt file containing the above line, upload that to the root file of your site and then rename it '.htaccess' from htaccess.txt - removing the '.txt' first.
    Be careful though that you are not overwriting another file - make sure you ftp software is set to 'Show hidden files' or similar, then edit that one if there is one as files beggining 'dot' are hidden by default.
    Cheers, Tim.

  • Exporting for iPhone 4

    Does anyone here know how to export a FCP timeline to an iPhone, but taking advantage of the iPhone 4's new HD capabilities? I have tried googling, and searching here unsuccessfully. I really need to be able to demonstrate my videos to clients on the go, and I would like to use the new iPhone to it's capacity for quality.
    Thanks,
    Lawrence

    I was able to use the 960x540 image for the new iPhone using QT conversion. But for some reason, it won't show up on the new iPhone. I don't get any message saying it hasn't synced (usually does give a message if there's a problem), but I just can't find it anywhere on the phone. I've used spotlight, and looked through the movies. I've also made sure restrictions were off just to ensure it wasn't being hidden. Anyone have similar problems?
    Lawrence

  • Export for iPhone 4

    In the past I've exported full QT files and converted them in MPEG Streamclip for display on iPhone. To take advantage of the hi-rez screen on the iPhone 4, what settings should I change?

    View the technical specifications for video playback on iPhone 4 and set your export accordingly.
    http://www.apple.com/iphone/specs.html
    TV and video
    * Video formats supported: H.264 video up to 720p, 30 frames per second, Main Profile level 3.1 with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats; MPEG-4 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Simple Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps per channel, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats; Motion JPEG (M-JPEG) up to 35 Mbps, 1280 by 720 pixels, 30 frames per second, audio in ulaw, PCM stereo audio in .avi file format
    * Support for 1024 by 768 pixels with Dock Connector to VGA Adapter; 576p and 480p with Apple Component AV Cable; 576i and 480i with Apple Composite AV Cable (cables sold separately)

  • FCP freezes when exporting for iphone

    so i have a widescreen dv project about 2 minutes long and i'm trying to export it to the iphone using the default settings, and when it hits 20%...it totally locks up and won't even force quit. ***?! my whole machine is up to date, but i'm still on FCP5. any ideas? I have already repaired permissions in disk utility.

    oh well.

  • Best format to export for iPhone

    What's the best format for viewing over the web via an iPhone? The quicktime format that I used for my blog generates an 'Error playing movie' message on my iPhone.

    Visualhub is a transcoder with multiple input and output formats with specific setting for iPod,iPod touch. Costs around $19-used to work great but recently everything I convert suffers audio crash than closes out the player. Hopefully they will fix it.
    Elgato H.264 hardware transcoder is $99 dollars(USB stick that plugs in to Mac)-speeds up encoding of any file quicktime can handle, settings for apple tv, iphone/touch, ipod,Sony PSP. Worth the cost if you transcode a lot of video for the Touch or own an elgato HD tuner. Files work flawlessly and look great.
    Mpeg streamclip-free. Works great, has presets or can customize the output.

  • Anybody getting export for iPhone to work?

    I just purchased QuickTime Pro to convert some existing MP4 videos for use in an iPhone web application. I followed the very helpful ReadMe file, but all I get when I try to load the HTML page with the video on it is a "no play" icon.

    I figured it out...I had to register the .m4v and .3gp MIME types in IIS on the web server. This link proved helpful...
    http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6677284&#6677284

  • What is the export format for Iphone and Android (Premiere Pro CS6)?

    For Iphone, Ipad and Android, what is the export format (Premiere Pro CS6) for watching videos ?

    http://forums.adobe.com/message/5950682#5950682

  • Ideal iMovie export settings for iPhone?

    What is the proper setting for iMovie exports to the iPhone?
    Obviously 480x320 is the desired target resolution, but I tried using "Quicktime" and encoding in h.264, but the video is not viewable on the iPhone. Alternatively, in selecting MPEG4, oddly h.264 was greyed out as not an option.
    Anyone? I know the "iPod" settings work, but that is not the ideal iPhone screen resolution.
    blakespot

    I had the same problem getting iMovies over to my AppleTV and found a solution that works for iPhone too.
    In iMovie click: Share>Share...>Quicktime (at top of box)>Expert Settings (under Compress Movie For)>Share (button at bottom of box)>Movie to iPhone (on Export: pick list). Click Save at the bottom of the dialog and you're off!
    I used this to convert several of the movies I had on my AppleTV and put them on my iPhone.

  • ICal for iPhone. View all events as a list without having to type into the earth box.

    iCal for iPhone. View all events as a list without having to type into the earth box.
    On the previous software version I used to be able to view all my calendar events as a list by clicking on the magnifying glass. Now you have to type into the search dialog box for a list to populate. This is very frustrating and annoying because I much prefer the list format to populate everything unless I specify what I am looking for into the search box. Is there a way to view all the events as a list without having to type anything into the search box?

    And you are aware of the possible options for listing the months and having an optional export value for each month.
    For listing the months, you can use a number, a 3 character string, or the full name.
    For the export value, the full name, the 3 character value, the 1-2 number, or the 0-11 JavaScript value.
    I would look at deciding how you want to populate the drop down box and build a one page form with just this field. You can then insert that page into a PDF and copy the field as needed and then delete the inserted page. Or you could create an FDF file to create the drop down box.

  • How do I export my iPhone notes to my MacBook? I have OSX 10.7.5 and iOS 6.1.4

    How do I export my iPhone notes to my MacBook? I have OSX 10.7.5 and iOS 6.1.4.

    Hello there, OldRailroadMan.
    The following Knowledge Base article should help with how to sync notes from your iPhone to your computer:
    iOS: Syncing Notes
    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4191
    Thanks for reaching out to Apple Support Communities.
    Cheers,
    Pedro D.

Maybe you are looking for

  • When I plug in my ipod touch my computer frezzes

    When I plug in my ipod touch 4th gen to my computer the computer frezzes.  This is a new one.  I have 2 others and an iphone all of which plug into itunes and the computer without a problem.  Any ideas how to remedy the problem?

  • Purchase Order output to be blocked in ECC when the PO is technically Incom

    Hi All, First of all I would like to say that, I have searched the entire forum for this issue & as i could not find any thread relating to this, I am posting. We have implemented SAP GTS & whenever a purchase order is created in ECC system and due t

  • Run block of code periodically

    Hello, I am writing a program which controls the temperature in a room. The user enters the "Start Temp", and "Goal Temp". First the program checks the "Cur Temp". THe program compares this temp with the "Start Temp"; if (Cur Temp < Start Temp) then

  • Payment clearing on amount with mismatching business areas

    Hi, gurus: We recently activated AR module under 4.6c. We use automatic clearing which calls FB1D, based on amount match between the cash receipt and the invoice.  The invoice comes with an business area, but the cash receipt record (RM doc type) has

  • Import photos from iphone to pc without the use of icloud

    Hi all, before it was so easy to import photos to my pc, now trying to backup my photos via icloud is quite impossible as i've followed all the instructions and backed it up however i cannot find it. it is meant to be saved in my pictures then there'