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Hello folks. I'd be very grateful if someone could tell me if my assumptions listed below are correct, or if I've missed something very obvious.
I recently did a number of half-hour videos for a client. Much to my surprise they requested them to be made available on the web. The videos were made at a conference with power point slides, so the quality needs to be fairly high for viewers to be able to see the details.
Here's my questions (the first one is my opinion, which I'd like confirmed?)
1) it's not 'usual' (or sensible) to put 30 minute clips on the web--the files are simply too big.
2) After much trial and error and hair loss, I finally came up with compression settings which allow a file of 100+mb for streaming. However, using FCE HD, each file takes about 2 hours to compress--I don't think there's a way of speeding this up, is there? I understand that more RAM won't really help?
3) because the FCE HD system locks up every time I make a compression (so that I cannot do anything with FCE for the 2 hours it's compressing the file) I'm thinking of investing in something like Sorenson Compression Suite. My understanding is that this would compress files in the background while I keep working. Again, am I being thick here, or is this a sensible reason to buy the suite?
4)Final one! I believe that FC Studio allows batch processing. Because Sorenson costs $500 odd I wonder if it's more sensible to upgrade to FC Studio?
Sorry for the multiple confused questions. I haven't been able to find full answers to any of these questions on the forum, so apologies in advance if I've missed em

Hello Conor -
I'll take a stab at answering your questions ...
1- That's up to you and the demands of your audiences. By sheer count, yes, most web videos are pretty short (<10 mins) but if you need yours to be longer, well, they need to be longer.
2- The time doesn't surprise me. And I suppose you are exporting to H.264 - which does take much longer to render than other formats. The only way to speed it up is choose a different compression scheme or get more/faster processors and to some extent more RAM. FCE's sweet spot is 2GB - 4GB RAM.
By the way, did you do Render All > Both and Render Only > Mixdown before you tried to export & compress your video? You should, and it will help with the export time.
3- Background compression sounds nice, but as a practice I wouldn't do it. Too many chances of some foreground process (read: other app) requiring CPU or I/O cycles just long enough to get you some dropped frames or worse. But that's just my considered opinion <grin>
4- Sorry, can't answer this one. But isn't FCS batch processing for capturing multiple clips? I didn't think it was for exporting finished video ...

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