GH2 How the heck do I output this adequately?

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mcbob

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Still using FCP7.

My footage is from GH2 with Terraquake, timeline is PR442-HQ, and it's a lot of birds on the water... HYPER detail and movement. Looks great on my monitor. Lovely swirls and twinkling fine-tines starburst flares all over the place.

Outputting to a standard 5000kbps H.264 for web via Compressor makes it look like a LEGO animation.

Advice on how I might make it not suck would be appreciated. Thanks.
 
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mcbob said:
Still using FCP7.My footage is from GH2 with Terraquake, timeline is PR442-HQ, and it's a lot of birds on the water... HYPER detail and movement. Looks great on my monitor.Outputting to a standard 5000kbps H.264 for web via Compressor makes it look like a LEGO animation.Advice on how I might make it not suck would be appreciated. Thanks.
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5000kbps sounds pretty low to me. I start at a minimum of 9000kbps, but sometimes up that to 12000 or 13000 if it's a relatively short clip. Try a higher bitrate and see if that gives you the quality you want at a manageable file size. You also may want to think about down-rez to 720.
 
mcbob said:
OK, so it's largely unrealistic expectations set forth by the site host...
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I'm doing some experiments on vimeo uploads... hope to have something soon for everyone, but yeah it's a bit of a pain. Also trying to get info on how Apple Trailers are encoded.
 
Eager to see what you find out... let me know how I can help, if I can help.

For what it's worth, here's a frame of the original:

Swans-framegrab1.jpg
 
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