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Compare, and let me know which you prefer in the future (basically the same export settings):
Flash Version | Quicktime Version
I’d be interested to see the difference in load times, picture quality, choppiness, etc. I’m on a slow connection, I can’t really test.
PS, I’m not really sure why the FLV is 18 mb and the QT is 40…
-BOB-
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This completes the tour of our house. View the first video (first floor) if you haven’t already seen it.
PS – I added a new CSS style for the movie attributes, then made a little table in 36-sec Dreamweaver and threw it in the blog. Fresh, huh?
UPDATE:
I exported this movie again Flash Video, and it took 11 minutes to export, as opposed to H.264, which took 26 minutes. After it uploads I’ll look at the video quality. All the settings are the same, but with this On2 Flix Exporter, I cannot crop the frame. File size was identical. View FLV export.
-BOB-
W I D E S C R E E N is the new black.
What it looks like in the morning at YRGZ (never saw it before.) Gotta clean the wide-angle adapter, or remove it. That reminds me, we need to get a mirror for our bathroom.
| Title | House Video #2 |
| Video | 600 kbps, 2-pass VBR |
| Audio | 40 AAC, mono |
| Dimenions | 600×310, preserve aspect ratio (crop) |
| Format | Quicktime |
| File Size | 7.1mb |
| Length | 1:21 (FCP compression time= 10 mins) |
| Sound | Narrative |
| Rated | G (All audiences) |
| Notes | Never using 600 vkpbs again. |
-BOB-
VIEW GALLERY
We just walked around Yi Ren Gu Zhen (YRGZ) and I took some pictures with the Italian Tripod and my trusty Rebel Digi.
Keeping you all in the loop.
-bob-
I’ve been watching these really helpful Pro Tools DVDs. Tutorials on everything related to Pro Tools, from setting up a unit, to editing, recording, file management, keyboard shortcuts, plugins, blah blah.
Anyway so I just watched chapter 13, “File Management of Pro Tools Systems”, and guess what! It turns out that Pro Tools automatically saves every take on your hard drive, whether or not you delete it inside the program or not. So I was advised to go and delete all the excess files (or “takes of ideas” I didn’t want, or bad takes, or whatever). I went through 6 different folders (or, 6 different songs/ideas) and by deleting all the garbage, I cleared out 6 GB.
To give you an idea, I have about 40 folders (or song/song ideas) to go. So it should give me more space.
I see no smoothie recipies, so either a) no one reads this blog, b) no one knows any recipies, or c) I should just keep making my own. I think I got a good one:
1 pear (skinned, de-seeded), 1 small banana, 150 ml whole milk, 50 ml water, little sugar = pretty good. Our blender also has this coffee grinder think, so next time I get coffee I’ll have to test out Helen’s “bigger coffee ground” theory. Okay, sleep time.
-BOB-
They love to play music of the Yi People at our little community 20 hours a day. It’s nice for tourists, but it’s driving us crazy.
We have spoken with the management and they have avoided our requests. Now we’re taking matters into our own hands.
The question is, how do we disable this speaker? I think if I unscrew it and clip the wires, that would turn it off. But we’re looking a more inconspicuous way to accomplish our goal. Of course, we would have to do this in the early hours of the night when the rent-a-cops are sleeping on duty.
Please advise. We don’t care that this is childish, I’m a recording musician and I can’t have that bleed into my mix anymore.
Would these ways work?
- pouring water into the speaker
- some sort of magnet
- Tom, is there a toxin I could dump all over it?
All ideas are welcome, thank you, this is not a joke!
-BOB-
VIEW THE MOVIE 2:53 mins
Soundtrack (not work friendly)
The long awaited video is now online. Edited all wildstyle with Final Cut, it’s a whopping 17 megs.
700 kbps (2-pass VRB)
640×480 VGA
128-146 kbps VBR audio
2:53 mins
-BOB-
This page was helpful, but I still want to know, what do you guys use to connect all your audio/video?
Bob
Thank you.
We both love this gift, so I just wanted to take a picture and show everyone how nice it looks!
bob and chun mei
(taken with tommy’s italian tripod ;))
Yes, that’s right, we were in the Middle of Nowhere for two days. Overcast, and the sky was scuzzy for pictures. I did take the Italian tripod and use it, but when you have polite Chinese relatives always grabbing your bags and stuff (… Italian tripods, ahem) to lighten your load, it actually hinders the picture taking process. So I just gave up on switching lenses and mounting the tripod.
We ate, slept, then ate, slept, then ate, then watched CSI, then slept. Repeat. Aunt’s house. Whew.
I’m finally back, the fumes are about the same, but we put the fume-eating plants all over the house. The first person than can tell we the name of this plant will win.. nothing really, but it will help me to know the English name. Picture later.
To-do list for the next few days:
- take twice as many showers as necessary just because
- set up the office
- move bed and everything to the new house
- go to Kunming and get the fridge, “wash clothes machine”, and misc
- buy a flat screen HDTV in the KM
- buy some snacky treats for the new house
- organize recent pictures and videos and post
- and most important, make music!
-bob-
ENLARGE
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