HDV orginial video compress for SD DVD steps, I need

I read some on this forum and not sure what I suppose to do to compress from FCP to SD DVD. Can you tell me what is the steps on compressor. It will be show on theatre screen (not hollywood type).
FCP compression setting?
Compressor setting?

You could try duplicating that 90 minute preset so you can make a few adjustments. One of the settings I modify in my m2v presets is in the Frame Controls: Resizing Control: Deinterlace. I have that set to Better or Best, depending on the video. I also set the Output Fields: to Progressive. This seems to work well for my DVDs even when down converting from HD.

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this is my question:
does exporting a sequence to an Apple ProRes Self Contained file helps to gain quality when compressing for SD-DVD or Blu-ray (or AVCH disc)?

Thanks for answering, Tom.
Let me try again, though. (Also, just thinking about the footage, forgetting about effects, titles, etc.)
Do you think that this applies to DV-NTSC and HDV sequences?
I've compared a DV-NTSC sequence exported out using:
DV-NTSC compression and one -using Apple ProRes.
They do look different. Wouldn't you agree to this?
What about HDV,
- is it erroneous to think that (when capturing) by transcoding to AIC or ProRes you are gaining some quality?
- or if you already capture HDV natively, it doesn't make a difference to export an ApplePro Res version to make a SD-DVD from?
I am concerned with this, because I shot once some HDV footage at night with a Sony Camera, going to a hard drive, and when I transcoded the files from the hard drive to use in FCP, (using MPEG streamclip) I noticed a relevant difference in how much the noise was noticeable on the HDV compressed files vs. the apple ProRes compressed files.
Have you ever seen these differences?
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We use Final Cut Pro 7 - and frequently compress our HD videos we make using Compressor. We use high end HD cameras, etc., and have beautiful results when compressing at, say 20 - 30mbs for display on HD monitors and televisions. We know how to compress for iPod and Apple TV, and various web sizes . . . but what parameters should we be using for the iPad?
I've read it plays up to 2.5mbs??
I hope I'm WRONG, because with fast moving subjects, you'll see a lot of pixelation at that low data rate.
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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, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file format
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HD video compressed for the web

I was doing some testing trying to figure out the best way to compress the HD video I get from the Sony XDCAM HD for the web (streaming). I shoot in HD (1080/30P) because it's needed for our videos. The web streaming is secondary.
I would prefer to make the web videos .flv because it works best and most easily cross-platform. In the real world, the majority of users have Windows PCs, which made me hesitant to use h.264 (.m4v) because it probably would require the average user to download things they may not wan to. Nonetheless, it has to be viewable on all computers in all browers.
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Clip 2: 30P 16:9 Low Quality, 10sec=24mb
Clip 3: 60i 16:9 High Quality, 10sec=45mb
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Clip 1: 1.3mb
Clip 2: 1.1mb
Clip 3: 1.2mb
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Test 2 used size 480x270 (16:9)
Clip 1: 1.2mb
Clip 2: 1.1mb
Clip 3: 1.1mb
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Clip 1: 240kb
Clip 2: 1440kb
Clip 3: 204kb
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Test 2 used size 320x180.
Clip 1: 160kb
Clip 2: 865kb
Clip 3: 865kb
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Hi APPLE27:
One comment from your post that immediately caught my attention was this, "Nonetheless, it has to be viewable on all computers in all browsers."
Unfortunately, it is unrealistic to expect one digital video file to be viewable on "all computers in all browsers" as there are simply too may variations in both hardware and software.
A common approach when offering digital video is to provide two formats to choose from and then within each of those two formats a few versions of the video for different bandwidths.
For example, a web site might offer Video for Windows and QuickTime. For each of these, there would be a low bandwidth Video for Windows file and QuickTime file and a high bandwidth Video for Windows file and QuickTime file (four files total). Of course, there's also Flash Video, Real Video, MPEG1, and so on.
For better or worse, YouTube.com has allowed video content creators the realistic expectation of creating a digital video file that is viewable on "most computers". But, the video is unavoidably tied to that web site.
When it comes to online distribution of video, it's still very open ended.
Also, computers are not all that's out there. Mobile devices are a huge market and you'd be hard pressed to create a single digital video file that will play on all mobile devices (iPhone, iPod Touch, Palm Treo, Sony PSP, etc.) either from local storage or from a mobile browser.
QuickTime offers a solution for creating a referencing movie - one file that links to other digital video files, but it too is imperfect at best when it comes to reaching the broadest audience possible.
With my few comments here, I'm just scratching the surface. But, it all starts where you are right now: caring about the image quality when exporting from your edited master.
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Video compression for web. H264 codec.

Hello to everyone!
I would be gratefull If someone can help me with some advice on the following matter:
Who can I compress a video which is shot with dslr camera, at 640x424p, 25fps, so that 20 seconds of video do not exceed 1mb.
The final video has to be 512pixels in height and 340 in width, good quality under 1mb.
I usually export this kind of web files using h264. For this job I modified the biterates so that the video does not exceed 1mb but all resulted in poor quality.
The satisfactory quality of the video is reached only after 4mbs(biterate/vbr pass2), in this case the filesize is over 5mb so again no good.
Please help?

And another thing I noticed in Premiere: I usually do a small edit of about 20 seconds from 3-4 clips. Well, this time I compressed the three clips before editing them in premiere. I used the h.264 encoder I talked about and it reduced my filesize to half for each of them(no visible quality loss). Now I imported the 3 files(reduced) in Premiere and the 20 seconds of editing still export as the same big size it was before encoding and reducing the clips. More interresting is that all three clips together have about a minute of footage and they get pretty close to the filesize that the 20 second export video has.
I did another experiment and imported one video file in Premiere and without modifing the content, i wanted to export it to see what happens with the filesize after entering and exporting with premiere. The export was bigger in filesize and lower in quality. One thing changed though: I imported a mov and exported an mp4. So how come my dslr camera exports such good quality videos with such small file size. Is mov better than mp4? If the software camera did such great job compressing the videos, why can't I find a computer software that does the same?
I appreciate your time!
Thank you!

Best Video Compression for the web???

I have read a number of discussions about which codec to use to compress video for the web and I’ve done my own tests and bar the longer encode time, which is not a problem to me, H.264 seems to come out as the best. I can get a superb quality, small enough for a quick download EXCEPT… this website needs to be friendly to the PC community.
What do you all suggest I do?
Go with lower quality MPEG-4 or Sorenson 3 and have my work look “not so good” or use awesome H.264 and provide a link to download the codec, which busy PC people will probably not bother to do.
This is my dilemma.
Thanks in advance for any advice.

I love the results I get when using H.264. Even low data rate files look good (even when I display them double size).
But it requires your page visitors have QuickTime 7 installed to view your QT files.
QuickTime 7 is nearly a year old and most of your Mac viewers will have it installed. It is also "bundled" with the iTunes software download that many PC users have installed.
H.264 is the only codec that requires version 7. Any other choice can be played using older versions of QuickTime.
As much as I like H.264 its installed viewer base doesn't reflect the visitors system settings for Web work. If your crowd is savvy to QuickTime they will not mind the download to upgrade. If you use tracking software on your visitors you'll be able to see if they hang around for the download.
MPEG-4 may be a better Web use choice.

10 Minute video compressed for web streaming help

Hi, I have to get some 10 minute videos online and I can't seem to get them smaller than 60 MB. Right now they are great quality H.264 files but they are all 111 MB. Does anyone know how to get these files to an acceptable file size for the web?
I have to keep the size of the video at 570x320.
Thanks.

I'd have to agree with Dave on this one. Your movie dimensions are the biggest hang up.
How about an old Web trick that works nice with H.264 files? Half size.
Using export via QuickTime at the settings that made the 11MB file but set the dimensions scaled half of your intended size.
I know. You want a big display in the Web page. Here's how to do it.
In the html code are special tags used by the QuickTime browser plug-in. One (rarely used) is scale="tofit".
In the embed tag add scale="tofit" and in the object tag use param name="scale" value="tofit"
In each (object and embed) tag are dimensions used in the source file. Change these values to your desired size (double them).
Bingo! Big display of a smaller file sized movie. Your viewers will not know what hit them.

Video Compression for idisk, Stuffit?

I am trying to transfer large videos to a friend via my idisk. If I take these files and compress them using the Stuffit program, will this make a safe and user friendly transfer?
I only have about 1 gig of space on the idisk to use, and my current video files are much larger than that.
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How large are they and in what format (what codec)? Video and a lot of photo files are compressed already and Stuffit or Zip won't make them smaller, in some cases they get bigger.
If they are raw DV or something with a really high bitrate the other tip is to reencode them to H264 which can really compres them to a fraction of their former size but you have to give some idea of what you are starting with.

Best Export / Video settings for Premiere Pro. Help Needed.

What's the best settings when you want to export a video from Premiere Pro for the web or otherwise. Best settings = good quality video and LOW file size.
Benchmark : The videos on Apple Trailers. Check them out at http://www.apple.com/trailers
The trailers are of high quality video, great sounds, and the Large sizes all fall under the 25MB mark. Any ideas on HOW this is done and what
settings in Premiere Pro CS3 might be able to replicate such standards?
Any help is appreciated. I normally use Encoder and export using H264 but that always seems to have an Audio lag. Any similar issues?
Thanks a mil!

I understand that better quality = bigger file size. That's true in most cases, but there is a way around it, I'm just not sure what that way is. As I mentioned in the original post, the benchmark is http://www.apple.com/trailers . The non-HD videos on any movie page on that site hardly ever exceeds the 25MB mark. The videos are 2-3minutes long, and while they may not be top-notch BD visuals, they look way better than 95% of the stuff that's streamed off the net.
That's why I asked if anyone had any ideas on how to replicate something like that. Say I had a avi file of great quality, shot with a Panasonic DV Cam. I Capture the footage, do whatever I have to in Pr, and the result is now a 3minute video. I want it exported to a Quicktime file, I want it to look visually pleasing like the trailers on Apple, and I want it to fall under 25MB. I have tried H.264 encoding, regular Quicktime, and Quicktime via Encoder. Nothing reaches the expected quality.
For more examples visit http://www.passionpictures.com.my/pages/recent.aspx and download those simple 30second clips. All Quicktime, mostly under 5.5MB. If Pr can't do it, then I don't know what can...so I'm sure Pr can do it.
Problem is, how? Experimentation is definitely a way to go, I get that. But on the basis of the scenario given above...how is it done?

Best compression for video on web

i have a website (made with iWeb and published on .mac) and I have a few pages of video clips. They vary in length from 30 seconds to about 6 minutes or so.
What is the best compression to use? I've been using H.264 and the sizes of the files go from about 7Mb up to 12Mb - it just takes such a long time to load online.
How can I create video that looks good but loads quickly? For example, how do movie sites create their trailers for online use? They look great and you can see that the progress bar on the video loads up really quickly, meaning that the video start playing almost as soon as it loads.
With my site, it takes a good minute or two before it starts to play. Any ideas?

*how do movie sites create their trailers*
No offence meant, not on iMacs. They have more expensive hardware for this.
The subject of video compression for web has been discussed on this and adjacent fora many times and I suggest you use the search function. Also, googling would be a good idea, especially words like Brian Gary who is the Compressor guru.
The topic is too complex for a quick post. I apologize for not having the time to type more.
George

Compressing for DVD DL

Hi all, I have a 70 min HD film that I expect to be around 40-50GB when exported to a self contained QT.
I want to compress for a DVD DL as opposed to a basic DVD but can't find any settings in compressor to compress my film to say 7-8GB, only to a basic DVD which is 4.7GB.
Anyone know how to compress for a DVD DL in compressor??
Many thanks
(FCS2 all latest updates, 10.5.2)

Hi,
You may need to set your bit rate accurately to reduce your file size as you wish and I usually use [Bit Budjet|http://www.kenstone.net/fcphomepage/bitbudget.html], which works perfectly.
Although I have not found myself in need to burn DL DVDs I believe it will be handy for you too as it can calculate the right bit rate for a 8.54 GB DVD Dual-layer.
For general info about creating dual-layer DVDs check out both DVDstudio4 manual and the link below plus all the links it reports:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6864655&#6864655

Several video assets for DVD Studio Pro 4, Compressor question??

I have several video assets for my DVD, they include motion menus, video tracks etc. When I go into Compressor and process each video asset, do I choose a preset according to that clips individual video length, or do I choose a preset based upon total running time of the DVD?
As always thanks in advance for your time in reading and replying to my Post,
Sebastian

If you go into your Presets Window, and select the pulldown arrow, you will see in detail what preset you need to use.
For example: DVD Best Quality 90 Minutes 4:3 is MPEG2, 6.2mbps, 2 Pass, 4:3
Then to the right it will say "Fits up to 90 minutes of video with AIFF for audio.
Don't even use the presets unless you have like a ton of footage.
But you can get about 80 or more minutes of footage encoded based off of these settings.
Just make a New Preset and type in the following..
New-MPEG2, then double click the Untitled MPEG-2
Video Format Tab - Choose your video settings, rest at default.
Quality Tab - 2 Pass VBR, 7.0 average, 7.4 max, Best
Rest at default.
If you have 80 or so minutes maximum, these are fine.
You should be good.
If you have more, then just drop the bitrate accordingly.
Once you get to 6.5, Compressor starts showing its ugly face.

Using BlackMagic Intensity Pro Video Compression card with FCP in a MacPro

BlackMagic is offering the Intensity Pro card that they claim is enhancing the quality of video compression for better results than software driven compression, even with Standard DV in addition to HDV, and at a surprisingly cheap cost (less than $300).
http://www.h-digital.com.au/hardware/hardwareview.asp?id=152
As someone used such hardware driven compression card in a MacPro ?
Does-it really help making better quality DVDs?
If not are there better hardware driven compression card?

7-8 years ago, we said that analog video was at the low end and DV was at the high end.
Uh, DV was NEVER on the high end. Digibeta and Beta were analog, and were HIGHER end than DV. Just because it was digital doesn't mean it was better. DV is compressed 5:1 and has 4:1:1 color sampling. Beta was 4:2:2 and better than DV...and Digibeta was and still is the high end SD format. DVCPRO 50 a close second. No...DV came in on the low end...like HDV comes in on the low end of the HD spectrum.
If this Intensity card does not help to get better compression than software driven compression, is there another card which can do so ?
Well, I answered this, but you must have missed my answer, so I will bold it for you: *THERE IS NO CARD OUT THERE FOR THE MAC THAT WILL AID IN DVD COMPRESSION.* I don't know about the PC side, so I make the statement to include MAC only. There are several hardware solutions for encoding DVDs that distributors use when making the theatrical DVDs like OCEANS 13...but those are separate hardware encoders. And no, again, those encoders are not available on a Mac.
What I mean at the end is to find ways to have higher quality DVDs than when using software such as Compressor. Do you follow me ?
I follow you....you aren't following me. Since I am an editor and not a distributor, I don't know what those solutions are. They exist outside of the editing world, so you have to GOOGLE this or look elsewhere. Needless to say, the Intensity does not aid in this. No capture card does. That is not what they are designed for. They are designed to capture non-firewire formats and to output to non-firewire formats...not to aid in DVD compression.
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