Philip Goetz
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My original video was shot 1080 x 1440 60i, approximately 25mb/sec, regular 1080i SONY HDV tape. Final Cut Pro was set to 1080i HDV upon capture. I am running the latest version of Final Cut Pro and Compressor. In Compressor I am doing H.264 encoding to 1920 x 1080, de-interlacing and set the video to the CURRENT frame rate, BEST quality, MULTI-PASS and AUTOMATIC data rate. With the AUTOMATIC data rate you cannot select optimization for STREAMING or DOWNLOAD, so it is grayed out. 4 minutes of video is 2GB. The video is a wedding with different parts, ceremony, reception, etc. This is the response from the end user: "The first time we watched the entire video, it didn't freeze until the end of the reception. A couple of days later, we started it from the beginning and it freezes at the first part of ... one of the segments..., then after a few minutes it will start again without the music. I did see the time at the bottom but it's different every time." It is a Western Digital Live (WDBAAN0000NBK) with a 1.5TB Seagate 7200 RPM USB2.0 drive (ST315005EXA101) formatted to be read on a PC. I am not sure if it is NTFS or FAT. These units ship saying they are NOT mac compatible. There is one video file that is 22GB on it. In the standard Quick Time player the inspector said one of the clips is 65Mbit/sec. I know that mb and bit are NOT the same thing but I am thinking my file size is to big. A file bigger than the original does not add any resolution. I am thinking I need to restrict to 20,000 kbits/sec and optimize for streaming. As a rule of thumb Vimeo optimization recommends restricting HD to 5,000 kbits/sec, but that is 720 max, not 1080. This can definitely be bigger than Vimeo quality considering it is playing directly off a decent hard drive. What have you tried and what works?