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gwyn ([personal profile] gwyn) wrote in [community profile] vidding2013-01-24 01:47 pm
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Exporting the best quality for web DL

Hey everyone -- I've made a vid for Escapade using HD source for the first time. I finally got my files to work for the size needed for the show, but now I'm trying to get a decent quality file that's not too huge for posting to the web -- both for download at my site, and for uploading to streaming. Nothing I make seems to come out well.

I exported using the H.264 codec (or whatever the number is, I don't have it open right now), and got a fairly shiny file at the Avengers aspect ratio of 965x542. But if I try to make it into any kind of .avi, it becomes massively pixelated and other files types seem really blurry -- not what I want after using all that HD source.

What are people using these days for DL and streaming? I think my methods are woefully out of date. And how did you get there?

For what it's worth, I'm on a Mac using an older version of FCP (6), and use MPEG Streamclip to make a lot of my web files.
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[personal profile] laurashapiro 2013-01-24 11:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Not at all. H.264 and DivX are very closely related -- it's not surprising you'd have similar results.