Eyes Glaze over with Web Conversion.Any Help?

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Rico Bock

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I'm a pretty good filmmaker but fairly lousy with all the technical requirements for translating a well edited and shot film cut on Final Cut Pro to the Web. The film was shot in DV NTSC at 30 frames per second. I've exported the sequence using Final Cut Pro 6 into Compressor where I am using the H264 compression settings. I've posted the sequence on Viddler website and although it is acceptable to my client, I am wondering if I can do better in terms of resolution. I am sure if we shot in HD we would get a better product, but that is not the reality here. I'm looking into Media Cleaner by AudioDesk but truthfully, my eyes glaze over with this stuff. It would seem that getting the right settings with Compressor should give us the best quality. My settings for Compressor were gleaned from a Ken Stone Website here-

http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/you_tube_redux_gary.html

any help to point me in a better direction much appreciated.
 
How about posting to the link to the file so we can see how good or bad it is? Maybe it's as good as it will get with DV. Perhaps another website like Vimeo would upload your video more faithfully, as there is usually a further level of compression when you upload it.
 
An excellent idea

An excellent idea

Thanks for responding to my query. Perhaps you are right, this might be the best I can get, I worked fairly hard on trying to attain a good resolution.

Here is the first in the current series of wine tastings for IntoWine TV. I am in the process of editing and converting for the web another 24 of these shows for this website so any feedback as to the overall video quality would be much appreciated.

http://www.viddler.com/explore/IntoWineTV/videos/61/
 
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That's like $500 though. I'd just experiment like crazy. I had some good results with Youtube as they offer a High Quality mode now. There is also blip.tv which is geared towards episodes, so that's good for you. I think compression is pretty idiosyncratic as it depends a lot on the nature of the footage, i.e. brightness, contrast, etc... That's why you got to experiment like crazy (I know, it's annoying waiting for things to upload) and you'll find the sweet spot. I don't think what you have right now looks too bad but it probably could get a little better.
 
export a quicktime movie first and then import that into compressor. going directly from fcp to compressor sometimes ups the funky quotient.
 
Thanks

Thanks

I appreciate the responses here. I understand now that there is no 'solution' per se for this dilemma, that it depends on a host of variables. One must experiment and basically use a trial and error method to determine the best results. Again, thanks.
 
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