My Virgin Vid

[lunaris1013.livejournal.com]

Yes, boys and girls, I've finished my very first vid! A short little ditty called Best Friends.

Askewniverse - Jay & Silent Bob.

RealMedia, 7.2Mb. Considering every single clip was pulled from DVD, I'm very unhappy with the quality of the .rm file. Any tips for exporting to RealMedia?

This is also a blatant plea for critique.

Comments

[jmtorres.livejournal.com]

I'm very unhappy with the quality of the .rm file. Any tips for exporting to RealMedia?

Don't. Just... don't. Do a .avi, do a .mov, do a .mpg, do a .wmv..., well, no, don't do a .wmv, I hear complaints about those too. (If you're getting huge files with those formats, try halving your screen size. People don't need or expect online vids to be at DVD resolution.)

But if you have to do realmedia? Choose the smooth motion option rather than the sharp image option.

(You might want to mention what fandom your vid is, since this is a multifandom community. You don't even mention characters.)

Cute vid. I personally would have kept the song running underneath the last dialogue bit at the end there, but I can see how it would have been distracting.

[lunaris1013.livejournal.com]

Well, I detest Quicktime (more precisely, it hates me) and the .avi was over 25Mb. I'll try a smaller screen size with the .avi. Thanks.

The song actually ends where you hear it fade, and the dialoge has background music already. When I extended the music under the end credits I'd tried it under the last clip, but it just didn't work.

Thanks!

(Oh, and I edited the post for fandom)

[deslea.livejournal.com]

I don't know what you're using to encode the video to .rm, but I like old RealProducer encoded to sharp video for a single-rate stream for 256KB. (Doesn't matter whether or not your audience uses DSL, because they're downloading, not streaming). It seems to deliver much cleaner files, at a nice file size to quality ratio. Don't touch Helix or any of the video creation program plug-ins. They're clunky and inefficient (IMO). You can still pick up RealProducer on Kazaa Lite, and possibly on Real's website if you dig around via the search engines (it probably won't be linked from anywhere on the main Real pages).

[lunaris1013.livejournal.com]

I encoded it using whichever Real product came with Premiere 6.0, and I did use a single stream, sharp video, 256 output. Though now I highly suspect that my output problems are stemming from the fact that the .avi files I drew clips from were recompressed.

Thanks for the input!

[boniblithe.livejournal.com]

I get nice quality RM files using Premiere's Advanced RealMedia Export, at the highest setting, smoothest motion video. Works like a charm for me. If your frame per second rate is set at 15 fps, that keeps your file size down a little while still maintaining clear picture. Any lower than 15 fps is a little too low for clarity.

[lunaris1013.livejournal.com]

The file I exported using the sharp settings came out better than the one I did using smooth - all at 30 (29.970) fps.

I'm gonna try re-ripping the source files, making sure they're *not* recompressed this time. I'd really like to have a clean, sharp, TV worthy copy on VCD.

Re:

[boniblithe.livejournal.com]

30 fps for TV worthy copy, for sure :) But for internet download or streaming, 15 fps is your best friend. More manageable file size - you should be able to get a nicely viewable, perfectly clear vid at somewhere between 10-15 MB (for a 4 minute song) using RealMedia Export at that setting.