The Meridian Hard Drive - AKA My plan B

Go File > Export > Movie > File type Quicktime > Video > Compressor > Mpeg4.

After that, maybe you can use Quicktime Pro and H.264

I'm not really sure though.

Worth a shot...
 
I just tried it with a 4 second clip from my movie. Ended up using QT Pro to convert it to H.264 after exporting it from Premiere Pro.

Worked like a charm.

Mike
 
If you use quicktime pro to convert the export it will shrink it down to nothing. Just use H.264 as the codec.

It's only $30.00 and worth every penny.

Mike
 
Try the adobe media encoder to export rather than export as a movie. Use a h.264 codec for a quicktime time file. Then play around a little with the bitrate to get it as close as possible to 50 megs. Hope you can do that in Premiere 2.0 as i'm using cs3 but i think you can.
 
Kirk Attard said:
Try the adobe media encoder to export rather than export as a movie. Use a h.264 codec for a quicktime time file. Then play around a little with the bitrate to get it as close as possible to 50 megs. Hope you can do that in Premiere 2.0 as i'm using cs3 but i think you can.
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I try the encoder with Premiere Pro 1.5 and it looks like crap when compared to exporting as a movie. It's large, but QT Pro shrinks it down and keeps the image looking great.

In the end though... whatever works!

Good luck.

Mike
 
One thing to check is the audio settings, they can bloat the file considerable and there are some good audio compression settigns that will bring that size down.
 
GaryOldman said:
That might do it. What do you suggest? The file, when it's big enough to see, comes out to 100 mb. Thanks!
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I took a HD file that was over 1 GB and shrunk it down to less than 50MB using QT Pro> H.264> 77% quality> 480x250.

It can be done.

I hope you managed to get something in.

Cheers,

Mike
 
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My big negative is the stampsized render/submission.

On the plus side it was very creepy in a real way.
I'm not at all into disturbia but this one didn't annoy me, in fact I found it interesting throughout.

This is a good place to develop the technical aspects of video/film so I hope you stay at it and keep entering.

Congrats.
 
The problem with this particular film was that it couldn't seem to decide exactly what it was: was it a faux-snuff film, built under pretenses of realism (eg. Scrapbook, August Underground), or is it a stylistically compelling film, with a definitive plot/dialog, and solid editing and such.

I like fusion as much as the next guy, but it doesn't work here. It's like combining rap with erudite music. While you can mesh the two shamelessly, neither will be fully justified, and that's pretty much what's happening here.

An interesting direction you could have taken it in, is having the lead "filmmaker" holding a penchant towards creating a movie. He's obsessed with cinema, and he wants to bring these elements of the killings into a cinematic and cohesive whole. He's attempting to create a new form of art, something that pushes the boundaries, combing human murder with careful creation.

Pulling off Fred Vogel here (who by the way is a lot less talented than he thinks he is), I would keep the film entirely within the realm of this snuff film. The precursor at the beginning makes a poor segue into the remainder of the film, since it implies that we are not watching the original snuff tape, but instead a re-cut one. This removes us from the atmosphere. You could less awkwardly start it off instead with an interview with the "killer/filmmaker," describing his 'art' that perhaps his friend tapes.

I'd actually keep the footage, and try to draw it all together with writing. Then you'd have a great and truly disturbing piece.

Good Luck,

Stefan
 
Was really trying to figure out what this exactly was...

some of the images were good, and creepy... but what was it? lol.
 
Wait wait wait wait wait.

I DID like this film. Maybe there were a few parts that didn't work as well for me, and you should have been more clear these people were making an artistic snuff film, but you were clearly thinking outside the box, and managed to generate a truly imposing atmosphere (a difficult feat to attain), and for that you should be commended. I enjoyed your entry more than around 80% of the ones here, and I'll probably vote for it.

I only comment on films that I either really like, or feel can be improved to become excellent. And yours is one for certain.

Good Work
 
Gary, your film was pretty disturbing. The usage of the old Sony camera really lent itself to your premise of the movie being "found footage". Definitely some creepy images, music and effects.
 
REVIEW:
Obviously, the size of the film is a little bit of an issue, but I just pulled it open a little bit bigger (just gave it a little more pixellated gritiness. :))

I really dug some of the images. The part of the woman begging for the guy not to kill her unborn child and then the stabbing of the woman, the pulling out of the umbilical cord I guess it was, plus maybe the fetus?, was a little disturbing at first and then kind of over the top. Fortunately for me it wasn't realistic enough to make me hate it.

It did feel a little disjointed, but your comments about it being pieces of a larger piece make sense.

Good imagery. Love the black and white, gritty look to it. Sound was excellent!

FILMMAKER-TO-FILMMAKER:
It was hard to take the killer seriously because he is presented as this scrawny, nasaly little guy. Now, I'm sure there are some hardcore little killers out there, but this actor didn't quite pull of the horror for me.

I really like the idea of somebody creating "artistic" snuff films. I don't think I've ever seen that before. That would definitely make a good script for a bad guy.

Anyway, good job and I hope to see something bigger for this project.

Cheers!
 
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