(METROXING: Sounds like you’re on the right track so far … if you want an edited DVD for your TV or computer, you can output it straight to iDVD. Could you explain some of these other options to me? It will take months burning clips to compare how each option looks on my TV. I do notice there are horizontal lines if I leave it to the defaults. I don’t know what frame blending or better downscaling do. What options do I choose from there? There are different compression choices for instance. It sounds like DV is the best output for me then. I will no longer need the video on my computer when finished, so I don’t mind large file sizes. I will be editing and putting the video on a DVD with some combination of Final Cut, iMovie, iDVD, or Toast. I used MPEG Streamclip to put the DVD-R on my iMac. My recorder has two options to record, so I choose the one that limits the recording to 60 min thinking that this will preserve the most quality. I connected the video player to a DVD recorder/VHS, and made a DVD-R. I have imported Betamax home movies to my computer the only way I could think of. The highest resolution I seem to find is exporting as a DV file and then using MPEG Streamclip to convert). If they can reproduce the quality – you can avoid converting to Flash. If you don’t need YouTube and just want to post a video, nearly every other video AV site offers better resolution and most all have the “embed” feature – check out Google Video, YouAreTV, BrightCover, Twango, VMix, or Zeec.

(METROXING: The only real way to compress to FLV is if you have the Adobe/Macromedia suite of apps or with Sorenson Squeeze ( 30 Day trial?). (I also have Final Cut, but I’m just learning it and I know iMovie pretty well.) flvĪny thoughts about how I could correct this problem without needing to reshoot would be much appreciated. mov file and then uploading to YT which compresses again to. I’m wondering if video sharpness on YouTube would improve if I compressed the video directly to. I think the problem is that the video is high quality with a beautiful background-greenery with tree branches swaying in the breeze-and when I compress it, it throws away data in the foreground (my face) because there is more movement in the background. The footage looks great in QuickTime, but on YouTube, it is so blurry, at some points in the video, you can’t see my nose on my face. I have some footage I shot (basically a talking head) with my Sony 150 that I’ve edited in iMovie and want to upload to YouTube. I wonder if you think Streamclip might work for my situation. (METROXING- For the FRONT ROW/ITUNES thing, you might want to try LOSTIFY.) The one thing i am unsure about is the audio – whether the full 5.1 surround is being encoded or just plain stereo.

but so all the files just play in the catchall “movie” category instead, not a problem. Only tiny issue is the file extensions you get (.mp4) don’t match the ones AppleTV uses inside iTunes/Front Row categories (mp4v).

And converting an HDTV stream (.ts file) taken direct from the firewire output of my Comcast box via iRecord is likewise piece of cake, full HD quality maintained. i use 75% quality, which cuts file size in about half, and can’t tell the difference on my 34″ HDTV. some (many?) DVD’s are actually 720/480, not 640/480, and Streamclip offers the choice to keep the extra width, very nice. some files i rip from music performance DVD’s via MactheRipper, using Trim to get just the songs i want. You’re totally right! over the last two months i’ve tried a half dozen different convertors, and Streamclip is by far the easiest to use with the best results H264.

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