Re: [Avid-L2] OT - edit ready video files that aren't too huge

The upshot from my posted question and answers yesterday (thanks everyone!) is that here is no 'magic bullet' to do what I hoped for… if a client has this problematic mandate (rapid internet delivery of lots of footage) the best but flawed solution is to compress to h.264 set to 'all frames.' To get the file down to a reasonable size (yes subjective) and edit-ready - would mean something less that professional hi-rez, but for some emergency circumstances this might be tolerable.

If the client is dealing with certain vendors or partners regularly we could work-up a routine doing lo-rez proxies etc but for a general release to unknown recipients, it's too complex.

Thanks,

Paul


On Jul 29, 2013, at 10:11 PM, Mark Spano wrote:

> To me, the solution is obvious, and two-fold. First, use Streamclip to make
> an all-keyframe H.264. Get the bitrate down far enough so that you can
> manage the upload. Then, once the guy has it on the other end, have him
> transcode back to ProRes (Proxy, LT, whatever). No it will not look great,
> but this is the way it is done. Squish it down, fit it through the pipe,
> blow it back up.
>
> I only suggest this because your other party wants 'edit-ready'. This leads
> to an assumption that the producer could copy your screenshot settings from
> Streamclip into his to make the subsequent file.
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 8:12 PM, Tim Selander <selander@tkf.att.ne.jp>wrote:
>
>> **
>>
>>
>> If it were me, I'd digitize/capture it through our Avid at some
>> offline SD resolution and ftp him the OMFI media folder. But even
>> at the lowest quality, you're not going to get anywhere close to
>> only 5GB for 2.5 hours of video in an easily editable format!
>>
>> Take a look at this page...
>> http://www.digitalrebellion.com/webapps/video_calc.html
>>
>> Tim Selander
>> Tokyo, japan
>>
>>
>> On 7/30/13 8:13 AM, Stephen Priest wrote:
>>> Any thoughts on a ProRes alternative ie. another way of getting the file
>> size down and keeping it edit-ready?
>>
>>
>>
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