GH1 Arrived - Here's The First Test!

[tflak]

This is very messy, Larry.... with each conversion you loose quality. AVHCD to ProRes to h264 to flv. To edit in FCP you cannot skip the ProRes part but you can either drop the h264 or the flv part and since flv is now old technology you should drop that. So export in h264 and upload them to your site, your flash players should be able to play them (all new flash players play h264 files with .mp4 extension). If not, try changing the extension into .flv . But stay away from flv encoding if you want best possible quality.

Right you are except for one small part. You cannot simply change the file extension to FLV. They are two completely different animals.

FYI - there is a specialized version of H.264 for Flash that uses the F4V extension. But this is only used if you need to include something like cue points. And, once again, it's not a simple matter of changing file extensions; it's encoded differently.

 

[RieniO]

You cannot simply change the file extension to FLV.

Yes you can, it's a trick to fool website content management systems that only accept files with .flv extension. Just try it... put an h264 file with .mp4 extension on a server, change extension in .flv, load it in newest version of flash video player and it will play fine. I had to do it the other day again for a webmaster working with a CMS only accepting flv... and it worked fine.

 

[tflak]

Yes you can, it's a trick to fool website content management systems that only accept files with .flv extension. Just try it... put an h264 file with .mp4 extension on a server, change extension in .flv, load it in newest version of flash video player and it will play fine. I had to do it the other day again for a webmaster working with a CMS only accepting flv... and it worked fine.

I guess I stand corrected if you've found that works for you. I was under the impression that FLV only referred to files compressed with proprietary variants of H.263 or VP6.

I would be very hesitant about merely changing file extension on media files. It's been my experience that doing so usually invites problems. They may not be immediately apparent, but tend to rear their ugly heads under various circumstances when you least expect it.