trankillity
03-31-2006, 01:20 AM
Hi there everyone,
This is a repost of a post I made in the wrong forum. I stuck it in the compositing forum but then realised it should really go in here.
I've got a bit of a predicament with some high resolution video that I need to use in a project. The video is 1200x768 and needs to run smoothly on a relatively low-end machine (Celeron 2.4ghz or thereabouts). The videos themselves are no longer than 30 seconds each but it's imperative that they stay at this resolution and have no juttering or lag. It also needs to be encoded using one of the Quicktime codecs. Yet another issue is that it won't be running from the Quicktime player and will not have as much dedicated resources as Quicktime player can get. It will be running from within a Macromedia Director presentation.
I am using Premiere to export the video and have had bad experiences with Premiere's compression routines for Quicktime in the past so it may actually be Premiere causing these issues but so far the only option I've found is Sorenson 3 at the rather low rate of 1500kb/s. This produces a lot of artifacting and is fairly unacceptable. Any data rate above 2000kb/s produces lots of juttering.
Does anyone else have any suggestions for other codecs for this large a video file? Will H.264 decode reliably on such a low-end machine with such a large resolution? I'm also keen to know what people think is a good audio codec to use as I've had very little experience with Quicktime and audio.
If there's anything else that you need to know about the restrictions of the project to better inform me then please ask and I'll get back to you ASAP.
Regards,
Sebastian
EDIT: I've tried numerous other techniques other than Premiere (including eRightsoft's SUPER and export direct from Quicktime Pro) now with relative success but would still like to hear people's opinions on it.
This is a repost of a post I made in the wrong forum. I stuck it in the compositing forum but then realised it should really go in here.
I've got a bit of a predicament with some high resolution video that I need to use in a project. The video is 1200x768 and needs to run smoothly on a relatively low-end machine (Celeron 2.4ghz or thereabouts). The videos themselves are no longer than 30 seconds each but it's imperative that they stay at this resolution and have no juttering or lag. It also needs to be encoded using one of the Quicktime codecs. Yet another issue is that it won't be running from the Quicktime player and will not have as much dedicated resources as Quicktime player can get. It will be running from within a Macromedia Director presentation.
I am using Premiere to export the video and have had bad experiences with Premiere's compression routines for Quicktime in the past so it may actually be Premiere causing these issues but so far the only option I've found is Sorenson 3 at the rather low rate of 1500kb/s. This produces a lot of artifacting and is fairly unacceptable. Any data rate above 2000kb/s produces lots of juttering.
Does anyone else have any suggestions for other codecs for this large a video file? Will H.264 decode reliably on such a low-end machine with such a large resolution? I'm also keen to know what people think is a good audio codec to use as I've had very little experience with Quicktime and audio.
If there's anything else that you need to know about the restrictions of the project to better inform me then please ask and I'll get back to you ASAP.
Regards,
Sebastian
EDIT: I've tried numerous other techniques other than Premiere (including eRightsoft's SUPER and export direct from Quicktime Pro) now with relative success but would still like to hear people's opinions on it.