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- blackspade
yolz, any flash flv pros out there mind lending some advice?
I've got some large high quality (largest is 20gig) Quicktime .MOVs that I need to convert to high quality .FLV's
Ive used Sorenson for converting to FLV's in the past, and recently played with VisualHub and ffmpegX, but;
Question; of those of you with experience creating and tweaking FLV,s what is the secret to keeping FLVs as crisp and smooth as possible, and what do you prefer to do the job?
I know its all to do with the settings, frame rate etc, ..how do I work out what the framerate of the original .MOV files are ,so that I might replicate that same framerate in the FLVs?
I need to keep the video quality mint.
I have read about H.264 standard video support in the new (beta?) flash player 9, but is that ready and working now or ?
Thanks in advance! =)
- Mishga0
http://www.flashvideofaq.com/
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flas…That's all i can help...Cheers!
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- NONEIS0
This a lot easier then you are trying to make it. Dont strss too much about the framerate, and dont use sorrenson. H264 is too new, so stay away for about a month still. For your own refrence, if you want to see the framrate of the file (you do not need to though) open the mov and hit apple i after it is open.
I use the flash 8 video encoder, your millage may vary, but it always seems to spit out good stuff, and small file sizes. Use On2 Vp6, it results in far less image degredation. The reason I said you dont need the fps, is that the default setting in the vidweo encoder is to match the fps from the file.
Go into the advanced settings, and leave everything the same here, except for your video codec (On vP6) and then play with the quality settings. Depending on what you are compressing lower or raise that number, if you are doing video, actual film that is, you probably dont want to go lower than 100k, and that will likely look crap, animated grahpics on a static bg can go as low as 20k depending on the animation in the file. Sometimes I go into the crop settigns, cut it down to a chunk, compress just that piece, and do a size / quality check for those settings, just amke sure you grab an accurate representation of you file, i.e. dont grab something with a bunch of background that might only be there for a blink, grab something that is a sample of the general colors and activity / amount of movement in the file.
Hope that hleps. Oh yeah, 20gigs will take a long ass time to compress, no way around that unless the video you are trying to compress has not been scaled to the final flash dimmensions, make sure you do that before bringing it in to the encoder and converting it to FLV.