Configuring camera for .flv Flash video

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patbooyah

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Hello. I am using a Panasonic AG-HVX200p (thus my posting in this forum). I am shooting video that will ultimately end up as a flash file, and I was wondering what camera settings you guys felt worked best. the major drawback is that i'm shooting for 4:3, although i can shoot in 16:9 and change it in premiere.

any help would be appreciated, but i'm looking specifically for format, interlaced or progressive, etc.
 
anything web based should always be progressive. if your target is 4:3 you can put up 4:3 borders for proper framing. and then as far as shooting? i mean its all dependent on how high of a quality .flv file you can do. lots of movement are going to get pixelated and crappy when compressed so always be weary of that.
 
I agree with Mangler about the framing in camera and eliminating unnecessary movement especially of backgrounds.

Shoot HD progressive, and a low frame rate.

If it were me, I would shoot 720 24p. This will avoid de-interlacing artifacts and will give a smaller web file size than 30p or 60p when compressed. I have also found that compressing for web formats (especially .wmv) cause a shift in luminance and saturation. You would compensate in camera by lowering your master pedistool for more contrast and boosting your saturation. Better yet, do that in post.


Jason
 
thanks, guys. i am shooting some motion-heavy stuff (sports), so you still think those settings are right?

also, i just edit in adobe premiere then output it to a standard flash file. sometimes i feel like there are lagging frames...
 
Well, with motion heavy things like sports, you might want to go with 60p. This is more the de-facto look for sports and ENG. 24p will be strobe-ish. The problem is when you convert to flash, if you keep the 60p frame rate, the file size will be 250% bigger (frame sizes being equal)...

30p could be a good balance.

Other than that, definitely HD, definitely progressive and probably boost sat / contrast before compression.

BTW, what are you using to encode to flash? I use Flash 8 video encoder, but it is God-awful slow!


Jason
 
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