In the February issue of Film & Video Maker, also the Soco News, I added my contribution to the opening debate about clubs keeping up with the times and technology. I was pleased to see in the latest issues much more debate on the subject and what splendid content there is in the lastest issues.Of particular interest is the first class article by Jan Watterson (I don’t suppose that is your photograph Jan?) giving us so much information on getting our offerings on to sites like You Tube. Although I do have a few videos on You Tube it still remains a bit of a mystery. Till now I have used a programme called RivaFLV, recommended by someone here I think, and it works fine. Recently I tried using Windows Movie Maker but, to my aged eyes, it looked quite poor.
I have now been fortunate in getting a new machine with Premiere Pro C4 installed. (Absolutely amazing is that there were no manuals at all with this complete kit from the dealer. However, eventually they did supply a DVD with C4 on). I am learning that from within C4 one can export a project ready prepared for the web. The programme gives many settings to enable one to create the best quality for uploading.
For the unskilled, deciding what is the best or correct settings is still a bit of a mystery. From the vast dropdown list I chose FLV PAL 4x3 WEB MEDIUM. I am assuming that the setting LARGE might be top quality but a resulting larger file? I chose FLV because those are the letters shown with the Riva prog. However it worked and my video appeared on the web. For my next effort I tried the setting of F4V WEB LARGE ETC . . . Whatever that means, it worked. I couldn’t see any difference really.
Trial & error gave me the result, but could you Jan (or anyone else) help in simple words the best settings to use because, great as your article is, the words used in your suggested, General Compression Settings, paragraph seem to get me reaching for a large glass of scotch. Perhaps others would appreciate a bit more hand holding over this. Thanks to you all. Pete
