Flash video site...

redcap

redcap

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Hi everyone...

I recently decided to pick up flash again (haven't used it since version 3 & 4) and used the video encoder..

I feel that all the video came out pretty well. For prosperity reasons, everything was shot on the DVX100A, the pieces that are 16:9 I used a panasonic adaptor, except 1 PSA that I did... and on that one, I also shot a concert and am working on a 20 mintute program to, hopefully, get aired nationally on one of the new and upcoming asian television networks... I'll be posting that one too, shortly. But I'm really happy with the flash video encoder thus far. It looks good and is great for the bitrates I throw at the video.

Anyway, tell me what you think:

http://www.redcapmedia.com

And yes, I know, I need a loader flash file at the beginning.. I'm still learning, eh?
 
Please excuse my technical difficulty, and thank you for bringing it to my attention.

I do not have a problem, except with my flash site.
 
So John, how's that commenting coming?




The site - it's not bad, I wish there were more color to it though, it feels a little drab with the current layout if you catch my drift, but maybe you want that minimalistic approach. That's cool too
 
How exactly is this done in flash? you import the movie into flash then it compresses it and exports it?
 
stevesnj said:
How exactly is this done in flash? you import the movie into flash then it compresses it and exports it?
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Its a slightly more complicated than that. As is flash... macromedia pisses me off sometimes.. but here's the workflow: (with flash 8)

Flash 8 Comes with a video encoder app, but supposedly it includes a plugin that will work with most NLE's ... but I used the video encoder, (Which is rather slow on mac os right now.. maybe someday they will add in support for dual processors.)

Anyway: What you do is you encode the video into a flash format (either sorenson spark or the new, supposedly superiour codec, On2 VP6 (which is what I used.) And then you import that into flash, pick a controller from the pre-made ones, and then put that in your video. My G5 DP 1.8 should have encoded at close to real time, but it encoded closer to about 5 fps. Way-to-go macromedia.

What threw me for a loop is that flash 8 doesn't imbed files anymore - so thats why I was having a lot of troubles is because I made a lot of my graphics externally in Adobe Illustrator (flash'es drawing & vector tools are still very flaky, and generally suck) saved them as .swf's and imported them in. So when I made the final .swf it would look for these files and not find them. Plus it uses relative links, so if you don't have a similar file tree on your computer as you do on your website it probably won't work either.

All in all flash is still the huge PITA it was in versions 3 and 4. Its just a lot more complicated now, and a lot slower (at least the mac os version is.) Its too bad Adobe didn't buy out this technology when it had the chance.
 
redcap said:
Anyway: What you do is you encode the video into a flash format (either sorenson spark or the new, supposedly superiour codec, On2 VP6 (which is what I used.) And then you import that into flash, pick a controller from the pre-made ones, and then put that in your video. My G5 DP 1.8 should have encoded at close to real time, but it encoded closer to about 5 fps. Way-to-go macromedia.

What threw me for a loop is that flash 8 doesn't imbed files anymore - so thats why I was having a lot of troubles is because I made a lot of my graphics externally in Adobe Illustrator (flash'es drawing & vector tools are still very flaky, and generally suck) saved them as .swf's and imported them in. So when I made the final .swf it would look for these files and not find them. Plus it uses relative links, so if you don't have a similar file tree on your computer as you do on your website it probably won't work either.
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i do not mean to insult you, but the compression is quite disappointing. very blockly. sounds like it taxed your system to transcode it, also. You used the On2, straight from the new app? do you have flash pro 8 ( as if that might make a difference?) I have been looking at the new app and codec closely over the past few days... wondering if you had Flix 8 if it would have helped?

well, still seems a trade off, you could have compressed with h. 264 and got awesome results but few viewers.

how do you view the .flvs now? or is that not what you encoded? I hated that you could not view your flvs on a mac without uploaded them first..
 
Pooh said:
i do not mean to insult you, but the compression is quite disappointing. very blockly. sounds like it taxed your system to transcode it, also. You used the On2, straight from the new app? do you have flash pro 8 ( as if that might make a difference?) I have been looking at the new app and codec closely over the past few days... wondering if you had Flix 8 if it would have helped?

well, still seems a trade off, you could have compressed with h. 264 and got awesome results but few viewers.

how do you view the .flvs now? or is that not what you encoded? I hated that you could not view your flvs on a mac without uploaded them first..
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Well it looks blocky because the video was encoded at 100 kilobits per second. But for that rate it looks really incredible. At some point I'll put up a video I encoded at 250 kilobits per second and it looks really really clear, way clearer than MPEG-4 which is what I used on the "regular" site. I sacrifice quality for load times.

The "AERC" clip, is 200 kilobits per second, btw, if you would like to see something of higher quality - but the file size comes out to 3.6 megs for 90 seconds. Not bad.. but still a little steep. I kept the bitrates low because some of the pieces are at or over 2 mintutes, the longest one being 5 mintutes.

Filx 8 may or may not have mattered, and I am using flash 8 pro - flix may have given me a few more options, but it looks blocky because of the bit rate.
 
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