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Hi Izzy. What do you suggest is the best way to compress video for the web in FCE that's about 5-8 mins and keep it under 100 MB's? I continually get rendered video that's well into the 140-60 MB range that I need to upload and I'm under a 5GB bandwidth cap.
For instance, I was at an event with my wife last night where I took a 1 minute video at 147 mb's. I used a canon 500d powershot T1i at 640 X 480.
For instance, I was at an event with my wife last night where I took a 1 minute video at 147 mb's. I used a canon 500d powershot T1i at 640 X 480.
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Permalink Reply by Israel "Izzy" Hyman on -
Hi Gordon,
This question is a little difficult to answer, because the answer will change depending on different cases. That said, here's a pretty good work-flow for standard online video.
1. From Final Cut Express, export a full-quality Quicktime file. This will be a very big file.
2. Download and install the free application called MPEG Streamclip. This is a compression app that works on both PC's and Mac's.
3. Use MPEG Streamclip to transcode the full-size Quicktime video using an iPod/iPhone preset. Just make sure you use the MP4 extension instead of M4V.
That should give you an MP4 file that uses H.264 as the codec. And the resulting file should play nicely on the web as well as be downloadable to iPhones and iPods.
I hope that helps!
All the best,
Izzy
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Permalink Reply by Gordon Fikes on
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Thanks Izzy. I'm going to be doing a lot more of this so that's good to know. I want you to know that I look forward to reading your posts on FB. Of all the tutorials I've seen and downloaded, yours are by far the best. I only wish I had FCP/Studio so that I could try out all the things you suggest.
Anyway, I will try your suggestion and let you know.
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Izzy, just to let you know, using MPEG Streamclip did the trick. It took a 150 MB .mov file and compressed it down to 39 MB's. Fantastic! Wish I had known about it earlier. I didn't take the time to really study the quality of the result but a quick glimpse looked okay. Thanks again!
Gordon
Israel "Izzy" Hyman said:Hi Gordon,
This question is a little difficult to answer, because the answer will change depending on different cases. That said, here's a pretty good work-flow for standard online video.
1. From Final Cut Express, export a full-quality Quicktime file. This will be a very big file.
2. Download and install the free application called MPEG Streamclip. This is a compression app that works on both PC's and Mac's.
3. Use MPEG Streamclip to transcode the full-size Quicktime video using an iPod/iPhone preset. Just make sure you use the MP4 extension instead of M4V.
That should give you an MP4 file that uses H.264 as the codec. And the resulting file should play nicely on the web as well as be downloadable to iPhones and iPods.
I hope that helps!
All the best,
Izzy
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