Exporting video for web

I'm needing to export a 1 minute 20 second clip for use on a client's web site and I was wondering what the best export settings were for this. The client just said, "I want the highest quality with the most compatibility." What would be my best options here?

Wow -- we get this here a lot. Use the forum search for your exact title and you'll get a bunch of replies.
I like File - Export - Quicktime Conversion - Change Default to BROADBAND HIGH and use the OPTIONS button to change the SIZE if you are dealing with 16:9 footage. I like 480x270 for that.
Anyway - good luck,
CaptM

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Making it for medium to good broadband, and with wanting the video to play right away, you could do say 1280x720, 1 megabit per second, H264. It would look reasonably good. If you don't mind people having to download for a little while before the video can play, then take the data rate up to 3 mbps.
So, one way to look at that would be to use the AppleTV preset from QuickTime Player, then open that mp4 file and save as to mov (just to make your html task easier). It would look very good, but might take a bit of downloading time before it's ready to start playing.

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The spec document attached to any downloaded iAd Blureprint project contains the requirements for video you'll include in iAd Producer projects. The settings you'll use to export to these requirements will vary based on the tools you're using but knowing the specs is the hard part.
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Check out these links:
http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?answer=165543
http://www.kenstone.net/fcphomepage/you_tube_hdgary.html
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Using FCP pro 5.1.4 compressor 2.3 and selecting QT 7 for download. Using this on a web site produces less than desirable results. Usually blurry video or I get the "Q" in the movie template of iWeb and have to wait some time for it to download to start playing.
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I'm tagging this one also.. I'm a new convert to the Mac (one more sleep until Mac Pro deliery!!). I normally do 10 megs for 2 minutes of 640X480 WMV video for web delivery and thought that was good when editing on the PC.. until I started to see some of these tech tutorials also.. and yeah.. crisp! But more importantly, is that thought the 100% viewing size might be on the smaller size, there isn't a lot of visual quality loss when expanding the view to 200% or more.. Now THAT was impressive..
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Best export settings for video for web

Can anyone give me some advice on the best export settings for a short video that is to be viewed on the web? I have some short, say 2 minute videos that need to be placed on a website and need a reasonable file size. What would the best Format and Preset options be in Premiere? Would it be helpful to utilize After Effects to reduce file size? Thank you in advance to anyone who has some advice!!

For now, it would be on my own website or a clients website. But there may
be another possibility, I have a client that already has some videos
available for viewing on their website, looks like they are YouTube videos
that play on their site, and there is an option to "Watch on YouTube". So I
guess I would love some recommended export settings for a straightforward
video clip on my website, and if I need to explore the YouTube preset in
Premiere, let me know. Thank you, I really appreciate your answers and
help!!

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On the Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 I used the format "H.264" and preset "Apple Ipad 400x224, 16x9, 29.97, 400kbps." That preset isn't available in the Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 edition. What would you recommend that would be comparable and good for exporting a one-hour video for use on the web (Vimeo, to be specific)?

You're in the wrong forum.

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I'm trying to export a 16:9 video clip for web using H.264 compression at 426x240 resolution from compressor using square pixel aspect ratio. No matter what bit rate I set it at -- 600kbps-6,000kbps I still get these really jagged edges. Even though my source is DV, the original file does not have anything close to this; also I have never had this issue before. One other thing to note is that if I export at full resolution H.264 -- 640x360, I don't get any stair-stepping.
Here is a frame grab of the video with the problem:
http://salsunproductions.com/misc/crapy_artifacts-h264-frame.jpg
You can download a video clip of it here (data rate is around 600-700kbps):
http://salsunproductions.com/misc/crapy_artifacts-h264.mov
I'm also noticing some sort of horizontal lines in the artifacts?? This is progressive scan footage shot on a DVX100B 24pA (and captured properly w/2:3:3:2 pull down removal, the original file doesn't have this)
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. This is getting really annoying having to export huge files...
PS: I'm using Compressor v3.0.2

It could be some scaling artifact. Make your stream progressive using frame controls (stay away from the best setting) and that should help.

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I just Googled the specs and it appears this camera shoots SD Mpeg2 at a low data rate.
I'm surprised it's working at all.
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The converted clip with titles should hold up OK normally.
Al

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I'm currently putting together some videos in FCP for our new website. I've used FCP a lot for creating video for DVD's and exporting to .mov but converting to flash is relatively new to me.
I am using the On2 Flix FLV exporter to export direct from FCP to a 704 x 396 flv file.
Can someone clarify how I should set up my sequence in FCP to get the best quality results? All the source material is DV PAL for video (720 x 576 anamorphic) and PNG-24 for still images (in this case a background which I will input text over in FCP). Should I be setting all my sequences to 704 x 396, and what pixel aspect ratio should I use seeing as it is for flash/web use?
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FCE Export settings for Web content

I'm about to help a friend make a how-to video for the web. I have not shot it yet and I've never made anything for the web before so I wanted to verify the correct settings before I start. I will be shooting with a Canon HV30 in HD 30 fps. What easy setup and export settings will allow the footage to retain quality when exporting / uploading to the web? Do I need a separate compressor? Thanks.

The Easy Setup should always match the format of the footage you shot, as should the Sequence setting. The Canon shoots HDV, so [you need to read this first|http://documentation.apple.com/en/finalcutpro/professionalformatsandworkf lows/#chapter=2%26section=0].
With the correct settings make the best quality master file that the material will allow. This file can then be used for a variety of delivery formats, should you choose to show it in places other than on the web.
To make your web video, use a H264 web preset in Compressor. If you need to deliver a Flash file for the web, rename the H264 movie's file extension to .flv -in most cases it will work fine.

Export Compression for Web Use

Hi All
I've been through the forum and seen a lot of posts on the "art" of compressing files for use and transfer on the web while wanting to maintain quality.
I understand that it requires some tweaking of the frame size, the frame rate, and the data rate to get the optimum file size versers quality.
I've moved from iMove where export was simple(tho files were large) to FCE and I'm finding that the learning curve is very steep.
I've recently seen a video on Vimeo http://vimeo.com/10022953 which is stunning quality and only 36.5 MB with a frame size of 1280 x 720. I'm wondering if anyone has an idea how he may have achieved this. The Codecs that he has used are AAC, H.264, MPEG-4 ODSM, MPEG-4 SDSM. I'm wondering if it may be necessary to use another compressing software to convert the exported full size QuickTime movie file to a quality file such as this.
Any ideas???

Hi All
While waiting for comments to my question I contacted the producer to the video that I referred to above. When in doubt go to the source.
His reply is…
"I use the setting in Quicktime X, go to: File - Save As and in format select 1080p. Easy as pie"
So I gave it a shot and I managed to get an awesome quality video at a greatly reduced file size, similar to what he had. I also discovered a powerful tool in Quicktime X : File > Save for web. This gives other great sizes and extra files and code for hosting on your own servers.
If anyone has any other ideas I'd love to hear but this has fixed me for the moment

Settings for the best QT video for web use

I hope you didn't look here thinking I had them.
I don't but I want to know them.
I see great looking quicktime videos that perform automatically and perfectly all the time but I can't seem to make them.
Two of the best are Lynda.com and DigitalJuice.com.
Their videos play instantly, you can push the cursor to the end and the data is there. They just work great, but they are both unwilling to share what they do other than saying it's a combination of Sorenson and Quicktime.
Why is this such a closely guarded secret? I understand that it often takes weeks to uncover this combination on your own, but I've never seen this unwillingness to share in this community any stronger than in these two web sites.
Thay talk all around it but they just won't tell.
I'm hoping someone here might look at their sites and their movies and figure it out and then share it with the rest of us.
Thanks for any help you can provide.
Steve

[email protected] wrote:
> I work for a software company and we make intructional videos and product videos all the time and we are starting to use .flv's a lot more these days. I usually export them in AE and have them set to about 800kbps, preserve RGB and 15fps. But the file sizes are a little bigger then what I thought they would be, the videos are generally around 5 minutes, were green screened so there is some compositing work going on in the timeline and the file sizes are generally around 40mbs....I feel like I can get those down so any help you guys can give me would be amazing!
> Thanks
> - Jim
The 512K setting with a 2Pass encode (using On2's Flix Pro) gives me
files sizes about half of what your getting. I don't tweak anything more
than that because there really doesn't seem any need to.
(I am assuming that the size matters because you intend for web delivery
of the final product.)

Compressing video for web

My friend from Australia is trying to convert a trailer for web streaming but is having troubles with the format. We filmed the videos in Nashville and then he edited the trailer in Australia but every time he sends me a copy it's pixelated... Any suggestions on what settings he should be using on the compressor?
Thanks,
Sheyla

Quality is directly related to "bandwidth" (Data Rate). How much you need is directly dependent on video size. You can usually get very good quality with 8Mbps (8000 Kbps) for 1080/30p. Exceptional quality would be in the 20Mbps + range (FCPX exports H.264 at 40+ Mbps and some higher end DSLRs and video cameras produce H.264 in that range as well.) For 720p, you can reduce that bandwidth down to about 5-6Mbps; 480p down to about 1.2Mbps. If you have high contrast fast moving scenes, you will need more bandwidth in order to avoid jpeg artifacts (blocky images.)
If you're posting videos on a "service" like YouTube or Vimeo, you should investigate their encoding specifications. For instance, a couple years ago, the maximum bandwidth supported by YouTube for 1080 video (doesn't matter the frame rate or interlaced/progressive -- just the maximum they allowed) was 5Mbps. They increased that to 8Mbps. The trick with these services is: if you encode the video with HIGHER bandwidth than they allow, they will encode that video again downwards to the limit. You never, ever want this condition to happen. There are other encoding options that should be adhered to as well:
Key Frames: Automatic
Frame Reordering: OFF!
Optimized for Streaming (makes a difference!)
Encoding: Best Quality (always use multi-pass)
(if you use these options, then you can set the Data Rate to 9400 kbits/sec -- it will almost always come under the 8Mbps limit)
Sound: MPEG-4 AAC Low Delay 48KHz bitrate 128 - 320 kbps
Check: Prepare for Internet Streaming and select Fast Start
YouTube will leave your upload alone

Export Settings for Web/PC from PAL

Hi
I primarily work in producing video for playback on a PC or Web; usually from PAL SD and Widescreen.
Therefore I mostly try to export to Progressive 4:3 standards but crop the source to 4:3 so that I can resize the video to standard ‘square’ dimensions (320x240, 480x360, etc).
I normally choose the H.264 - YouTube SD preset. Change to PAL standard (which resets the frame sizes for some reason), crop to 4:3 and change the frame size back to 640 x 480. I just leave all the other settings as default and export.
However with CS5s new preset for Vimeo I noticed that it sets the Aspect Ratio to 1:1 – Square Pixels; while the YouTube preset keeps it at 4:3. I never noticed this before as the exports always looked correct.
Which is right, have I been doing this wrong all this time? What is the ‘best’ procedure to export from PAL video to PC and web video?
Thanks in advance of any replies.

Hi Harm
Sorry to open this thread again but I'm still having problems.
I reinstalled Premiere Pro/Media Encoder and tried downsizing to computer dimensions (320x240 - square), but I'm still getting borders.
I have attached a screen shot showing my settings and the video output, which includes the black borders.
The only reliable way of getting rid of the borders is to crop (4:3) on the source tab which obviously loses a small about of pixels from the left and right.
Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

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