China Travel Etiquette Photos, Videos and More
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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-
Just a note: I edited this video with the intention of using all the new information I learned from Total Training: Final Cut 5. It’s not a very stimulating video, but I did make use of the ‘Viewer’ and ‘3-point editing’ (as opposed to drag&drop, razor method, as described in my last tutorial.) Also I learned about how to effectively use the browser (or what I called the ‘library’ window).
| Title | Bob & Fam Visit Heijing, Yunnan |
| Video | 1024 kbps, 2-pass VBR |
| Audio | 80 AAC, mono |
| Dimensions | 640×480 |
| Format | Quicktime |
| File Size | 21.7 mb |
| Length | 2:42 min |
| Rated | All audiences |
I compressed this video twice, same settings, except for 2-pass.
1-pass = 21.8 megs / lots of crap on screen
2-pass = 21.7 megs / much less crap
But, the 2-pass very little of the artifacting that 1-pass does when you move the camera more that the speed of “slow”. What that means is, for a talking head, yes, 1-pass could be useful at saving you compression time, but really, I’m now convinced that 2-pass must always be used.
-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-
It’s still going, now it sounds like a bagpipe with a lovely arrangement of screaming on top (I closed the windows in this one, that’s why it’s a ittle less abrasive.)
-BOB-
FCP is complicated. But it’s fast. Still can’t get Flash Video Exporter to work on this computer, so everything is QT for now.
Movie is 450 at 16:9, 600 video kbps, 1-pass. 30 second video compressed in less than one minute. Tekno music is Thievery Corporation. File size is a seriously low 2.3 jigabites. Any skipping in music is the source file, has nothing to do with FC or compression.
On another nerdy note, I just installed Flash player 9 with Action script 3.0, woo hoo. And I’m eyeing Flix On2 FLV exporter. I highly recommend upgrading to an Intel Mac if you have the fundage. Just my opinion.
_BOB_
WATCH MOVIE
WATCH QT MOVIE
VIEW MOVIE (sound)