Sequence Settings - Web Only Project - no "video" sources
Sequence Settings - Web Only Project - no "video" sources
- Subject: Sequence Settings - Web Only Project - no "video" sources
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 08:52:20 -0700
Dear Folks:
I hope this is an appropriate question for this board. I posted on the Apple Support Discussion Board and I'm hopeful. I sure need help! I am trying to create video podcasts using Final Cut Pro Studio 2. They consist of:
1 - AAC audio (a lecture)
2 - "Slides" containing text created in Illustrator
3 - Brief full motion video clips (QT) created using a screen capture program
My video clips are NOT from a DVD or a camera. They are not NTSC, they are not interlaced. They are Quicktime files created by a screen-capture app right off my desktop. These captured movie files can be exported via Quicktime at any Quicktime setting.*
The Illustrator "slides" are text heavy -- like Powerpoint slides. This text needs to look as crisp and sharp as possible.
The resulting file will be embedded in a web page and progressively streamed at a maximum screen size of, let's say, 800 pixels across (from a file half that size**). I will also export for iPod/iPhone.
I tried a DV NTSC timeline but the text looked terrible. Then it occurred to me that I have no camera-captured broadcast-style video so I needn't use an interlaced format.
So, what sequence setting is right for a timeline with no real "video" in it? (I guess I mean video in the broadcast or DVD sense.) Is there a progressive editing codec that will work for me? As far as I know you can't edit MPEG4 or H.264 in Final Cut. How about ProRes? Is that a strictly digital editing format that might work? Motion JPEG?
Any help would be great.
Thanks!
- Note 1:
- I'm using a great for-Leopard screen-capture app called "Screenflow." I play a DVD in DVD Player on my desktop, and use Screenflow to capture my entire desktop at full resolution. It allows me to crop away all but the movie using a Photoshop-like crop tool. I then export the file using whatever QT settings I like.
Note 2:
- I can buy an American Idol video from iTunes. The native file size is 640 x 360 but you can go to View/Double Size and it still looks good. I would love to set my sequence to a size similar to the ITMS file. I would have a small master I could down-convert for iPod/iPhone AND embed in a webpage using HTML instructions that scale it up to roughly twice it's size.
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