If I could only get the stinking video to render correctly it get the video on the web for you to view. But I am having a lot of troubles, not with Apple Quicktime, but with the format of the original copy.
The problem: MPEG-2 cannot be converted to Quicktime directly, either through Final Cut, Premiere (PC) or Quicktime Pro(mac or PC). For some reason it just won’t render the audio.
My options:
- Have the video encode on a mac with the help of this program.
- Have a mac capture the video in h.254 directly using Quicktime Broadcaster.
Bad:
Having to transfer the video to a mac to do the encoding through Export2QT, which turns out to be very fast at encoding the media.
It wouldn’t take too much time to do but it would be tedious.
Good:
Control, even though it would take more time then having an application do it for me I would know exactly what is going on if something broke down in the process. Especially since I would be doing it at home; I would hate to have to go to the bridge to try to re-initiate/error correct.
Good:
FREE
FAST, not only would there be no render time but it would be easy to create an automater workflow to upload the files to the server or even have Jared create a program that would upload and post it to WordPress.
Bad:
Will need another dedicated machine to capture the video. At theB we have a mac mini that could possibly do this but the times we need it for iChat AV we would have to do option 1.
As you can tell I don’t really know what I am going to do because we have to capture in MPEG-2 and I need to get h.264 for the VideoCasting.
Also, going with another codec for the video cast is just not an option. I know I may seem like an Apple geek right now but the only reason I had to start doing Pod/Videocasting was because iTunes did it all, letting me, for the first time, deliver media to the masses without being tech support. Dealing with questions/explanations on how to use bittorrent, DivX, or any other superior possibility is something I cannot do. Honestly, we live in a one click world, and iTunes is the only thing that can do one click audio/video delivery for the user.
As for the size, I would just look at other video casts out there (are there any in iTunes now)?
As for the size, I would just look at other video casts out there (are there any in iTunes now)?
As for the size, I would just look at other video casts out there (are there any in iTunes now)?
Lets get this straight. We will NEVER capture to uncompressed AVI.
1. I am not going to convert AVI it to MPEG2 for DVDs; NEVER.
2. If the capture is solely for the video cast then I would capture to that codec. I would rather capture to h.264 at full quality and then down sample it. a) it’s smaller, in case I have to move it somewhere. b) it’s a lot faster to re encode. 3) No (visable) quality loss.
You might want to try the new video from last night. Not the HQ since it’s down. And if you complain about the quality of last nights then you are crazy, because you are probably watching them full screen; not good. Just double click the video in the lower left window of iTunes and a new window will open.
I think I will keep it at 90kbytes per second and at 15FPS. That runs about 80megs for an hour which is descent for downloading.
Lets get this straight. We will NEVER capture to uncompressed AVI.
1. I am not going to convert AVI it to MPEG2 for DVDs; NEVER.
2. If the capture is solely for the video cast then I would capture to that codec. I would rather capture to h.264 at full quality and then down sample it. a) it’s smaller, in case I have to move it somewhere. b) it’s a lot faster to re encode. 3) No (visable) quality loss.
You might want to try the new video from last night. Not the HQ since it’s down. And if you complain about the quality of last nights then you are crazy, because you are probably watching them full screen; not good. Just double click the video in the lower left window of iTunes and a new window will open.
I think I will keep it at 90kbytes per second and at 15FPS. That runs about 80megs for an hour which is descent for downloading.
Lets get this straight. We will NEVER capture to uncompressed AVI.
1. I am not going to convert AVI it to MPEG2 for DVDs; NEVER.
2. If the capture is solely for the video cast then I would capture to that codec. I would rather capture to h.264 at full quality and then down sample it. a) it’s smaller, in case I have to move it somewhere. b) it’s a lot faster to re encode. 3) No (visable) quality loss.
You might want to try the new video from last night. Not the HQ since it’s down. And if you complain about the quality of last nights then you are crazy, because you are probably watching them full screen; not good. Just double click the video in the lower left window of iTunes and a new window will open.
I think I will keep it at 90kbytes per second and at 15FPS. That runs about 80megs for an hour which is descent for downloading.
Lets get this straight. We will NEVER capture to uncompressed AVI.
1. I am not going to convert AVI it to MPEG2 for DVDs; NEVER.
2. If the capture is solely for the video cast then I would capture to that codec. I would rather capture to h.264 at full quality and then down sample it. a) it’s smaller, in case I have to move it somewhere. b) it’s a lot faster to re encode. 3) No (visable) quality loss.
You might want to try the new video from last night. Not the HQ since it’s down. And if you complain about the quality of last nights then you are crazy, because you are probably watching them full screen; not good. Just double click the video in the lower left window of iTunes and a new window will open.
I think I will keep it at 90kbytes per second and at 15FPS. That runs about 80megs for an hour which is descent for downloading.
Lets get this straight. We will NEVER capture to uncompressed AVI.
1. I am not going to convert AVI it to MPEG2 for DVDs; NEVER.
2. If the capture is solely for the video cast then I would capture to that codec. I would rather capture to h.264 at full quality and then down sample it. a) it’s smaller, in case I have to move it somewhere. b) it’s a lot faster to re encode. 3) No (visable) quality loss.
You might want to try the new video from last night. Not the HQ since it’s down. And if you complain about the quality of last nights then you are crazy, because you are probably watching them full screen; not good. Just double click the video in the lower left window of iTunes and a new window will open.
I think I will keep it at 90kbytes per second and at 15FPS. That runs about 80megs for an hour which is descent for downloading.
Lets get this straight. We will NEVER capture to uncompressed AVI.
1. I am not going to convert AVI it to MPEG2 for DVDs; NEVER.
2. If the capture is solely for the video cast then I would capture to that codec. I would rather capture to h.264 at full quality and then down sample it. a) it’s smaller, in case I have to move it somewhere. b) it’s a lot faster to re encode. 3) No (visable) quality loss.
You might want to try the new video from last night. Not the HQ since it’s down. And if you complain about the quality of last nights then you are crazy, because you are probably watching them full screen; not good. Just double click the video in the lower left window of iTunes and a new window will open.
I think I will keep it at 90kbytes per second and at 15FPS. That runs about 80megs for an hour which is descent for downloading.
Video Casting Problems
It’s iTunes or the highway for this publisher….
Video Casting Problems
It’s iTunes or the highway for this publisher….
Video Casting Problems
It’s iTunes or the highway for this publisher….
Video Casting Problems
It’s iTunes or the highway for this publisher….
Video Casting Problems
It’s iTunes or the highway for this publisher….
I still think you should at least do a test between uncompressed AVI to h264 and mpeg2 to h264. The test wouldn’t be that hard to do, and I think you would end up with a better quality. Especially if you are doing multipass, the better quality the original the better it will turn out I’m pretty sure.
Even though the mpeg2 is still “better” quality than the h264, it’s still a lossy compression method, and already contains compression artifacts before you start putting it through to do the h264. If it turns out I’m wrong (after the test) then oh well.
As for the size, I would just look at other video casts out there (are there any in iTunes now)?
Lets get this straight. We will NEVER capture to uncompressed AVI.
1. I am not going to convert AVI it to MPEG2 for DVDs; NEVER.
2. If the capture is solely for the video cast then I would capture to that codec. I would rather capture to h.264 at full quality and then down sample it. a) it’s smaller, in case I have to move it somewhere. b) it’s a lot faster to re encode. 3) No (visable) quality loss.
You might want to try the new video from last night. Not the HQ since it’s down. And if you complain about the quality of last nights then you are crazy, because you are probably watching them full screen; not good. Just double click the video in the lower left window of iTunes and a new window will open.
I think I will keep it at 90kbytes per second and at 15FPS. That runs about 80megs for an hour which is descent for downloading.
Note to self:
Don’t mention AVI to Dan (henceforth known as the “MPEG nazi”) anymore…
Note to self:
Don’t mention AVI to Dan (henceforth known as the “MPEG nazi”) anymore…
Note to self:
Don’t mention AVI to Dan (henceforth known as the “MPEG nazi”) anymore…
Note to self:
Don’t mention AVI to Dan (henceforth known as the “MPEG nazi”) anymore…
Note to self:
Don’t mention AVI to Dan (henceforth known as the “MPEG nazi”) anymore…
Note to self:
Don’t mention AVI to Dan (henceforth known as the “MPEG nazi”) anymore…
AVI reminds me too much of M$ for some reason.
I do love AVI though, DivX and all.
AVI reminds me too much of M$ for some reason.
I do love AVI though, DivX and all.
AVI reminds me too much of M$ for some reason.
I do love AVI though, DivX and all.
AVI reminds me too much of M$ for some reason.
I do love AVI though, DivX and all.
AVI reminds me too much of M$ for some reason.
I do love AVI though, DivX and all.
AVI reminds me too much of M$ for some reason.
I do love AVI though, DivX and all.
I don’t think AVI is related to Microsoft (they have their own funky video formats). Also, be sure not to confuse “DivX” (the video codec) with “DIVX” (the evil early attempt at DVD DRM).
I don’t think AVI is related to Microsoft (they have their own funky video formats). Also, be sure not to confuse “DivX” (the video codec) with “DIVX” (the evil early attempt at DVD DRM).
I don’t think AVI is related to Microsoft (they have their own funky video formats). Also, be sure not to confuse “DivX” (the video codec) with “DIVX” (the evil early attempt at DVD DRM).
I don’t think AVI is related to Microsoft (they have their own funky video formats). Also, be sure not to confuse “DivX” (the video codec) with “DIVX” (the evil early attempt at DVD DRM).
I don’t think AVI is related to Microsoft (they have their own funky video formats). Also, be sure not to confuse “DivX” (the video codec) with “DIVX” (the evil early attempt at DVD DRM).
I don’t think AVI is related to Microsoft (they have their own funky video formats). Also, be sure not to confuse “DivX” (the video codec) with “DIVX” (the evil early attempt at DVD DRM).
Note to self:
Don’t mention AVI to Dan (henceforth known as the “MPEG nazi”) anymore…
AVI reminds me too much of M$ for some reason.
I do love AVI though, DivX and all.
I don’t think AVI is related to Microsoft (they have their own funky video formats). Also, be sure not to confuse “DivX” (the video codec) with “DIVX” (the evil early attempt at DVD DRM).
H.264 over H.323 is my world at work for now.
Dan, thanks for trying. I went to try the VC out and no go, my home pc is 98….
I know, I know
will try it out when I can get the laptop free from the kidz.
H.264 over H.323 is my world at work for now.
Dan, thanks for trying. I went to try the VC out and no go, my home pc is 98….
I know, I know
will try it out when I can get the laptop free from the kidz.
H.264 over H.323 is my world at work for now.
Dan, thanks for trying. I went to try the VC out and no go, my home pc is 98….
I know, I know
will try it out when I can get the laptop free from the kidz.
H.264 over H.323 is my world at work for now.
Dan, thanks for trying. I went to try the VC out and no go, my home pc is 98….
I know, I know
will try it out when I can get the laptop free from the kidz.
H.264 over H.323 is my world at work for now.
Dan, thanks for trying. I went to try the VC out and no go, my home pc is 98….
I know, I know
will try it out when I can get the laptop free from the kidz.
H.264 over H.323 is my world at work for now.
Dan, thanks for trying. I went to try the VC out and no go, my home pc is 98….
I know, I know
will try it out when I can get the laptop free from the kidz.
H.264 over H.323 is my world at work for now.
Dan, thanks for trying. I went to try the VC out and no go, my home pc is 98….
I know, I know
will try it out when I can get the laptop free from the kidz.