In "The Old Days" the choice to convert video for web presentation
would have been Movie Cleaner (aka "Media Cleaner," aka "Cleaner").
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Call me old then!
Final Cut Pro -> Export Ref Movie (current DV settings)
H.264: Cleaner 6 to crop (to safe action), image correct (gamma,
contrast. etc.) and normalize the audio to an intermediate QT file,
then QT 7 Pro to compress to H.264 and resize that file (29.97 fps).
Sorenson 3: Cleaner 6 to crop, image correct, resize, normalize and
compress from the ref movie (make a "large" 29.97 fps, and a "small" 15
fps).
Sorenson 1: Cleaner 4 booting up in Mac OS 9 to crop, image correct,
resize, normalize and compress from the ref movie (15 fps).
XMLtoRefMovie to make the final Ref movie pointing to the alternates
(based on QT version and Connection Speed).
Now, yes, I don't have the latest QT-7-aware version of Cleaner, so
need the 2-step process for QT 7 H.264. But still need to go to Cleaner
4 to access my PRO versions of Sorenson 1 and other codecs. At some
point, may stop supporting older boxes with only QT 3 or 4 (thus the
Sorenson 1 alternate). But QT5/6 will remain viable for some time.
Main reason for Cleaner - their de-interlacing was still the best when
I compared all the tools out at the time. Anything with any movement
<sarcasm>(ie. video!)</sarcasm> needs good de-interlacing, and some
other "big name" tools were completely useless in that department, and
others just not as good.
