Output to other formats for web viewing

HI all,
I was wondering if anyone has found anything handy for shunting out projects for web approvals. I use h264 using the broadband setting high on my work and it looks super. for 16 9 i scale the dimensions to 480 x 270 manually.
The file size is small and good for quicktime 7 viewers.
However, has anyone any concrete experience using flip4mac or other not hideously expensive encoders. particularly dvcam widescreen friendly ones. some of my clients are resistant to using quicktime as their web viewer( although they are losing the fight over time to quicktime)
cheers and thanks,
Jon
G5DP2 Mac OS X (10.4.3)

I use Media Cleaner 6. You can convert DV files to various different formats...
AVI
WMV
MPEG-1
MPEG-2
MPEG-4
QT
RealMedia
AIFF
WAV
BMP, JPEG, PICT, PNG
MP3
(etc.)
...and there's a decent amount of control over the encode settings.
I think it's about $500 new, $250 used. I guess that could be hideously expensive if you're a freelancer or reasonably-priced if you're working for a post-house.
Hope that helps!
Joni

Similar Messages

Exporting PDF format for web viewing, fonts look bad

Hey everybody I'm relatively new to indesign so sorry if this is a simple one. I'm doing a newsletter in indesign, which will be used stricktly for web viewing. Whenever I export the file as a pdf the body text fonts look a bit off, as though they are slightly pixelated around the edges. This is not as noticable in the artcile titles with larger font, but any smaller font (i'm using size 14, and futura book) and it gets this pixelation, it is even more noticeable in the thinner type sets of the font. Another odd thing is the first page of the newsletter the fonts are more messed up looking than the following pages where the same font types and sizes are used, the only major difference is the first page has a photo on it, but the fonts that look weird are below the photo not overlaying it or anything like that. I turned off all the compression on the pdf export, also tried it will varying amounts of compression but still have the same issue. And I am viewing this in Mac's Preview program, not acrobat.

Ok, just checked through all the flattening preview highlights and everything looked fine in that. Since my exported document looked perfectly fine in acrobat, but sort of pixelated in mac's preview, is there any way around that?
If you are serving the PDF via a web address it will very likely be viewed in a browser (not downloaded and opened in an app like Preview or Reader). All of the browser displays have slightly different anti-aliasing, which you can see if you zoom in on a screen capture of the text. Here's a line of text from your PDF at 100%, magnified to 400% in Photoshop. From top to bottom Safari, Chrome, Firefox:
There's nothing you can do about the anti-aliasing quality of the different browsers and apps. The PDF you posted has live transparency, so it isn't a flattening issue.

Publish for web viewing?

I haven't found enough information about web viewing of
Captivate 3 screencasts.
I don't have a flash server, but I have a CMS capable of
serving individual swf or flv files. But in my output I have three
different swf files (not to mention an html).
For the sake of web viewing/streaming, what are my options?
1)is there a way in Captivate to convert it to a single file?
2)Are there any utilities for coverting to avi/mpeg? So far,
the only thing I've found is
http://www.adshareit.com/howto-swf-to-video.html,
but I don't know what settings to use. I tried its default
settings, and the result was three mpegs, all of them were huge and
none were usable.
3)are there special settings you should set up in Captivate
for web viewing?
4)my cms (which is specialized) has some ability to play
flash media files within a viewer, but am unsure exactly. How would
an embedded flash player on a website be able to view a captivate
video?
From a standpoint of latency and performance, is the best
option to just upload the three files to a web directory and give
the user the URL for the html file?

Hello again Robert
Without seeing your actual output files it's a bit difficult
to say exactly what each file is for. But I can toss out some
generic information.
Often when you record a project in Captivate and publish the
output you will end up with four basic files.
ProjectName.SWF (Contains the bulk of your presentation)
ProjectName_skin.SWF (Contains the Playback Controls and adds
one or more Borders surrounding the main part of your presentation)
standard.js (An externally referenced JavaScript file. This
was was used to prevent seeing the "Click to activate" message that
Microsoft Internet Explorer used to issue when it played Flash
content. But IE has been updated so this message no longer appears.
Even so, the standard.js file is still necessary in order to
properly display your content.)
ProjectName.htm (An HTML file that is used to present the
Flash presentation)
Depending on what and how you recorded, there may be other
files involved too. You could see one or more Full Motion files
among the mix.
Additionally, if you used some of the supplied animations
that ship with Captivate, you could see those as well.
Hopefully this was helpful... Rick

"Formatted for mobile viewing by Google"

When you use Google's mobile search engine with the built-in Nokia browser and choose one of the resulting links, does the site ever appear "formatted" by Google? This has happened now for several weeks and is driving me crazy! Why? Because their "formatted" page looks awful, and because I resent their paternal attempts to protect me from the web! I see "page 1" and "zoom" links at the top, and the text "Formatted for mobile viewing by Google" and a "View page directly" link at the bottom. So to to view the site as I expect, I must now load every page twice!
My phone is an E73 and I'm in the USA, but I expect this new "feature" affects a wide range of Nokia phones. Except that I appear to be the first person here complaining. Perhaps this "feature" isn't yet available worldwide?
Sooo, does this problem affect anybody else?? Thanks!
Solved!
Go to Solution.

A happy update. I tried contacting several tech news web sites, to see if their journalists would take up my cause and use their contacts at Google to learn what is going on. (Mere users certainly can't reach Google anymore!) I met a nice fellow from CNet, but even he didn't seem to take my situation very seriously.
So I changed tactics and started taunting Google. At the bottom of every reformatted page is a "Report a problem" link, which leads to a list of common problems and solutions. The last problem is "Other", which leads to a web form. 2 or 3 times a day, I was submitting things like
"I am a user and would like to PERMANENTLY disable reformatted web pages for my Nokia E73 phone, without using logins or cookies. This is a 2-year-old phone and I have gotten by very well so far without your meddling."
"I am a user and take great exception to your attempt to reformat web sites. I get the impression your programmers have run out of things to do and are now making changes for the sake of change, and not based on user feedback. I do not need protection from the big, bad www! Nokia E73 user."
and lastly
"The new, improved Google mobile search proved as welcome as Lupus. A Nokia E73 user."
(If anybody relied on DejaNews in the late 1990's, their usenet search database was a godsend at first, but the web interface was gradually retooled to the point of being unusable. And then an upstart company named Google rescued us by buying the database and again giving it a usable front end. IMHO, Google's search interfaces are now reaching DejaNews complexity and are in need of being rescued themselves. An article on suck.com about the fall of DejaNews inspired the above comment.)
Fast forward about a week and now no search results are reformatted. Even the Preferences link on the main search page doesn't include the option "Format web pages for your phone". Yes, it's possible Google still wasn't listening, and this was just the result of them further refining their filters. Or maybe they turned the whole thing off for now? But for anybody with this problem also needing a resolution, I still highly recommend clicking "Report a problem" and "Other" and telling them what you really think!

Best for Web viewing

Hello All,
I was wondering if anyone out there had any suggestions on which is the best way to export my video for web viewing.
Currently I have a project that was only 1.9MB big but when I exported it to a .mov file it came out to be over 350MB large!
My project is currently exporting at 720x480, 29397 [fps], Lower, Quality 50 - Audio at 32000 Hz, Mono, 16bit - DV/DVCPRO - NTSC.
I understand that the 720x480 will have to be reduced and was wonering if anyone out there had any suggestions how to "shrink" the video and make it the best quality for web viewing..
Thank you!

Currently I have a project that was only 1.9MB big but when I exported it to a .mov file it came out to be over 350MB large!
You are not comparing things correctly. The Project File is no indicator of what the export file is likely to be because it does not include the size of all the clips and media contained in your project. THe ppj is kind of an organisational list of all your edit decisions and the locations of the media theyrefer to etc...

SaveAs and maintain "optimized for web view" via javascript???

I am trying to do a SaveAs via javascript, but I need to maintain the linearized (optimized for web view) state of the PDF.
I would get this via the SaveAs menu item, but I need to do it silently and rename the file (replace _H.pdf with .pdf).
Is there anything that I can read that will help me do this? I have looked through the API reference, AcrobatUsers.com, web search, etc.
Or, if it cannot be done, stop me now.
Here is what I am doing currently wtih help from this forum.
XXX_DoSaveLoRes = app.trustedFunction(function()
app.beginPriv();
this.saveAs(this.path.replace(/\_H.pdf$/i,"") + ".pdf");
app.endPriv();
Thanks,

I don't think it can be done.

Preparing FCP clips for web viewing

What is the best way to output my FCP movies for web streaming? I want the best possibly quality for my images but am not sure the best way to go about this.

This is the LiveType forum. You might do search on the Final Cut Pro forum to find an answer.

Project Server 2003 files to MPP or other format for archive

We want to remove our Project Server 2003, but we have a need to backup all the old projects. Anyone have any documentation on how we can move this to MPP or PDF or other document for easy viewing to archive?
Thanks!

Hi, I suggest either to do a full backup of the DB or to save manually the files. Anorher way would be to write a powershell script.
Hope this helps,
Guillaume Rouyre, MBA, MVP, P-Seller |

Help please with output settings in Save For Web Photoshop CS4

I am new to CS4 Photoshop so have been watching tutorials on Lynda.com. According to that tutorial I should have the ability to save a photo as an image in the Output Settings dialog box. The only options my panel gives me are:
HTML
Slices
Background
Saving Files
I don't have the option for Images Only or for HTML & Images. Are these two hidden somewhere?
I have been experimenting with Save For Web, but when I click on Save I get a panel that lists all the images saved in a folder named "Photos" but I cannot find in that folder any of the images that I optimized and saved for the web. Where are they to be found? Images that show up in Bridge are not my optimized images either.I would be grateful for some assistance with this.

Those settings, HTML, Slices, etc, are the Output Settings you don't normally need to change aonything in there.
Leave it at default and you will just save a version of the image stripped of unnecessary data and reduced to the degree you specified next to the file format choice.
When you press Save in the SfW interface it calls up a Windows OS Save dialog box showing the last used location.
The destination can be changed in the normal way. The Images you already saved will be in the the location that was in that dialog when you saved them.
There is a lot more information in the help pages on this topic! (Hint.)

Adobe Tools - Best Photo Format for Web Content

Hi,
We have recently redesigned our website at http://www.aljoufilaw.com/ar/ and inserted photos in the homepage and its sub-pages.
Our concern is that we want to have the photos in the best quality and with high resolution. What is the best photo format to achieve this? We had converted our photos in Photoshop to JPEG and PNG.
Does increasing the resolution in Photoshop by going to image>image size>resolution, helps the quality of the photo in the website?
We appreciate your expert advice and opinion on this.

No. Resolution is a print concept which has no real meaning on the web. What matters on the web is height & width in pixels (500 x 325).
Even if you save images at 300 dpi for print, they will be displayed in web browsers at 72 ppi (or slightly higher in HiDef displays).
Higher bandwidth (file size) just makes your images load very slowly with no significant gain in quality.
In Photoshop, use File | Save for Web & use the 4-up tab to compare file size with image quality. Rule of thumb on the web is to use optimized JPGs for photos and select the smallest file size you can get away with, then back off a tad.
See screenshot from Photoshop.
Nancy O.

What is the BEST BEST format for web?

Hi everyone,
I've been reading a lot lately and I found that PNG should be the best format. However, in our website (www.popticular.com), when I save them as web and pick PNG with best quality the logo seems pixalted. Is there another setting?
Feel free to log in to the site and check the lop left logo.
Thanks.

In answer to the original question - the absolutely very best format depends on content being saved. Different image formats use different compression algorithms, so PNG are ideal for images with transparency or solid colors block (like text) without any gradients. JPEG are great for photographic images because JPEG compression references start / end pixels in a gradual color shift (like skin tone or clouds) and discards all pixel data in between. Use preview mode in "save for web" to identify formats that work best for each particular image in terms of resulting size and quality. You do not need to save at 100% quality, human eye cannot tell the difference between 60% quality JPEG and 70% quality JPEG.
As you get close to finalizing your design, you might want to run it through Web Preflight that will give you some guidance on any potential issues you might get when converting file into HTML - https://www.oss-usa.com/web-preflight?promo=adobe

Uploading an IMovie for web viewing

Each week I video tape my grandaughter's hockey game. About 12.5 gig. What do I have to do to get it onto a website so that the players could log on and view a game?

In iMovie, if you "Share" and choose "Web" that will make a nice sized movie for Web consumption. If you have .mac, you can even create a webpage automatically as well (using iWeb depending on what version of iLife you have).

Getting videos for web viewing right

Using Xserver on Quad Mac G5 and QTSS. I would like to stream videos like the one in Apples live events. Quite impressive. http://www.apple.com/quicktime/qtv/mwsf08/
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.
What are the tools used to create the high quality videos in these live events?

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..
I want to learn all of this.. =) So much stuff, so little time.. sigh

Transcoding form VOB format (DVD) to other format for editing.

Hello,
I've copied the content of a DVD the MPEG-2 VOB format, and I have to editing with that material. I was thinking of transcoding in a other format to work the edit. In what format I can work with in an easy way but keeping the best quality ?
Thanks for you attention !

but I never heard about loosing more quality in transcoding.
Then you don't do this much. Codecs are COMPRESSED formats. That is part of their name...CO...compression. DEC...decompression. Whenever you take a compressed format and convert it to ANOTHER compressed format, you lose image quality. Because compression is a way to throw away certain bits of information yet keep the image looking decent. Going from one format of compression to another...so different bits of information are thrown out...causes loss in quality. So if you transcode and transcode and transcode you lose information every single time. So you get loss in quality.
Always have.
Shane

Best format for web movies?

My server here suggests Flash, but the samples we've done are not what I am hoping for. His next suggestion is Windows Media Player. What do you think? These would be 1 to 2 minute videos showing the features of camps, lodges, wildlife - at African destinations. I shoot them, edit them, and perhaps host them. The camp web site has the link to them. How do I get the best quality video on the web? BTW, I have just retired from operating safaris for 18 years and used video as part of my marketing. I'll be replacing my Canon G2 with a new Sony HD camera - not to put these little movies in HD, but to have that as the video I keep for possible other uses by the camps.

MPEG-1 files (how old is 1991) must completely download before viewer playback can begin. They are huge in file size compared to modern QuickTime formats.
H.264 would require all of your viewers to have QuickTIme 7. Not really much of an issue as it is now 2 years old and ships with iTunes (Mac or PC's).
Flash video will require special software to convert your files.
Same with WMP formats and any re-compression degrades video quality.
You can reach a bit larger audience (QT 6 and 7) by using the MPEG-4 Video codec.
I would export to QuickTime Movie and do a few tests of the MPEG-4 Video and AAC audio compression settings.
Web viewers need a speedy download and are used to poor quality audio and video. If you don't need "stereo", switch to mono and save half of the bandwidth resources. Same with the frame rate of your source files. Cut it to "half" (15fps) and save some file size.
Lots of tricks and only you can test your files prior to upload.

Output to other formats for web viewing

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for