Hvx200 Exporting ?

[ChristianScott]

When playing with 1080i 24p footage from the hvx200 what do you sugest exporting it at for these instances

youtube:
Dvd:
vimeo:
quicktimemovie:

Just its rather taxing finding a nice export.
im using adobe cs4 and will be exporting using media encoder cs4,

it just confuses me cause i dont want a 2 minute clip to take up 500mbs this aint really convenient when burning to dvd.

thanks guys

[David S.]

What have you tried so far as settings for DVD? Also for youtube?

And you mentioned QT; are you on a Mac?

That would help in making recommendations.

[ChristianScott]

hey .. yeah david im on a mac,

i tried mpeg2dvd palw/s
and .mov

argh i dunno tried so many lol driving me bonkers..

i should be able to export and it still look great. but not be such a big file .. if 2 mins is 500mb what you do for a full feature lol

[David S.]

First of all, two minutes = 500 mb for what use?

Youtube? or what?

Help us out with the specifics of what you are doing.

I did a test motionjpeg export to youtube from 720/30p footage and a/t to youtube's specs, it came out at 240 MBs.

You are resizing it?

[Andy Olson]

Hey Christian,

A very efficient codec for online viewing is the Quicktime h.264 mp4 compression. They use that for the dvxfest here as the submitting codec and you can get a nice image in a 5-6min short at only 50mbs. Usually those are smaller resolutions coming from HD sources so you probably could have a 720p or 480p file of your project that comes under 50mbs. Also, reducing your audio from stereo to mono and/or 48k to 32k or 24k will cut down on mbs.

Hope this helps,
Andy

[ChristianScott]

that was just trying to find a happy medium for getting it to look great on dvd. and vimeo but i dont want to loose any quality ..

[Jim Carswell]

Christian,
I would suggest seperate encodes for DVD and your other needs. H.264 is great for quicktimes, YouTube, etc. Utilize compressor to create the proper files for DVD. You'll get your best quality that way.
Jim

[ChristianScott]

compresspor ?

[Andy Olson]

I agree with Jim that you should use different encoding for a DVD and online streaming. For SD DVD, exporting as mpeg2 is the way to go. Also, I wouldn't suggest doing the Adobe Premiere Pro timeline to dvd option because I didn't get very good results with that in PPro 2 at least. I usually export to mpeg2 and then use a dedicated dvd burning program.

Compressor is the dvd burning program of FCP/Macs.

Best regards,
Andy

[David S.]

What were your target and maximum bit rates for encoding the video for DVD and did you use AC3 audio or aiff?

[David S.]

compresspor ?

What ARE you using to encode the video for authoring a DVD?

[ChristianScott]

i was using adobe media encoder to get the right file type, i dont know if this is the best method or not .

[David S.]

What are your target and maximum bit rates when encoding video to m2v/mpeg2?

Are you converting the audio to ac3?

[ChristianScott]

4, 7 and theres no audio just video for now.

[David_Tanner]

I am having a similar problem with exporting HD to DVD, It seems all of adobe's basic codec's are aimed more at web use.

[ChristianScott]

This whole thing is giving me a headache. I am aware of compressor's capabilities however surely there is a way of putting my film (s) to dvd without such program...??

As adobe is initially 'pc' software how would a none-mac user put his or her film to dvd in the best quality?

There must be a way.


Thanks anyway guys sorted it. Out of interest what would u convert 1080 24p to put on hd YouTube/vimeo?