CONCLUSION: Any web-video experts?
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- Dave Goodwin
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QTPro will not allow you to export an FLV or SWF. I use Sorenson Squeeze for that, although it's not free. Rivavx is you best bet for that.
Quicktime is a video format, like AVI, MPEG4, etc.
I use Final Cut Pro HD 5. It uses the QT format and is only found on the Mac.
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- Stephen O Connor
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It handles many file formats. Here is a link to the specs:
www.apple.com/quicktime/pro/specs.html
If you buy the flip4mac extension it will open even more of the Windows Media formats--although I doubt you will need it with all the formats that it handles natively.
I have had it for awhile, but once I got into video, I was shocked by what this could do!
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- Cubfan
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Our present workflow has our volunteer taking a DVD home of the entire service. From that, he rips the DVD to an AVI file using a free program called bitRipper. Then he uses Windows Movie Maker (again free) to chop out just the sermon, and export it to a WMF format sized for web streaming.
Then we upload to the webserver, using our podcasting software... which is where it's given a title and published. This last step is pretty easy... it's the previous ones that are somewhat clunky, IMO. And I'd much rather publish FLV if it will support videos of around 20 minutes in length.
So... software suggestions to replace bitRipper and Windows Movie Maker that would give better results. I did check out the tech specs for QTPro, and it does not support WMF or FLV. Does do MPEG-4, but the standard Windows Media Player that most people have won't support that format. And I refuse to export in QT format.
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- Stephen O Connor
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Mine seems to, although I do not see it listed in the spec sheet. Did you look at the attachment in the post I made a couple of messages earlier? Those were the options in my export dialogue box. My usual workflow would be to import a .mov into Flash and work it from there as I'd rather work with a .swf which is not an option with QT Pro. I have been trying to upload a screen capture of the Flash options within QTPro, but it just doesn't upload.
The options include video codec (sorensen squeeze or On2 VP6), data rates, frame rates, resizing, audio, cue points, cropping, etc.
I'll put up more screenshots when the server will take them.
On another note, I don't care to load the stuff to play Windows Media either--you know--all that stuff to just see a play a media file
. No matter what you use, somebody has to load some kind of player (unless you want to exclude those using certain os's), although Flash seems ubiquitous; hence, my hands down choice. I have also put up files in multiple formats to let the user decide. It's the audience that counts--not my preferences.
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- Adrian Cooper
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Cubfan wrote:
GollumX wrote:Use the allvideos plugin available here to embed your video in content items
I had the allvideos plugin installed, but couldn't figure out how or what to do with it. I'm using WysiwygPro, and I had no icons, buttons, or anything when I was editing content. Dunno... maybe I missed something somewhere.
Added: DUH! Reinstalled the mambot and read the instructions more carefully. It managed to sink in this time. Couldn't be easier, and works great.
There is an AllVideos plugin for JCE, so you can add video from the editor.
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- Cubfan
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Adrian Cooper wrote:
There is an AllVideos plugin for JCE, so you can add video from the editor.
Yeah, but how hard is it to type {flv}filename{/flv}? Besides, I use WysiwygPro for my editor.
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- Stephen O Connor
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Adrian Cooper wrote:
There is an AllVideos plugin for JCE, so you can add video from the editor.
http://www.joomlacollection.com/component/option,com_bookmarks/Itemid,42/task,detail/catid,43/navstart,0/mode,0/id,1643/search,*/
Out of curiousity, does this do anything that the JCE Media Manager plug-in does not do?
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- Cubfan
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Go figure. Just tried Quicktime Pro, and saved a couple of videos to my podcast. It works much better, and if I don't miss my guess, iTunes should show them if I save them in .MOV or .MP4 format, right?
Right now, anybody subscribing through iTunes only sees our MP3s and not our videos, which is likely because they're Windows media.
When I use the "streaming medium" option for both MOV and MP4, I seem to get much better quality than I got with Windows media files. I wonder how much of a hassle it will be for the majority of our users if I switch to Quicktime on our podcast?
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- GollumX
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- Cubfan, wmv is a dying format so switching is probably a good idea
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