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!!! [[https://vimeo.com/help/compression | Vimeo has several tutorials on compression for the Web, Here.]]
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Next, select the "Make Movie" button at the bottom right of the window. Determine your file destination, click "Save" and relax while MPEG Streamclip works its magic. If you want to compress multiple clips at once, choose List > Batch List. Click on the "Add Files" button, select the videos, choose a task (usually "Export to Quicktime"), select a Destination folder, and then follow the instructions above to determine the settings. Happy compressing.
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Next, select the "Make Movie" button at the bottom right of the window. Determine your file destination, click "Save" and relax while MPEG Streamclip works its magic. If you want to compress multiple clips at once, choose List > Batch List. Click on the "Add Files" button, select the videos, choose a task (usually "Export to Quicktime"), select a Destination folder, and then follow the instructions above to determine the settings. Happy compressing.
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Now, asssuming you want to upload the video to a web site such as Vimeo or Youtube, you will most likely choose "Export To Quicktime." After making that selection, the "Movie Exporter" window will appear. There is a dropdown at the top that by default should say "Apple Motion JPEG A." Choose the dropdown, scroll up and select H.264 for your compression codec. The quality setting defaults to 50%. the higher the quality, the larger the file, so you can experiment with different percentages to see what gives you the highest quality video at the lowest file size. By default, try 100% and see if that file size works for you. If the compressed file is too big, try incrementing down at 10% percent intervals til the size is manageable.
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Now, asssuming you want to upload the video to a web site such as Vimeo or Youtube, you will most likely choose "Export To Quicktime." After making that selection, the "Movie Exporter" window will appear. There is a dropdown at the top that by default should say "Apple Motion JPEG A." Choose the dropdown, scroll up and select H.264 for your compression codec. The quality setting defaults to 50%. the higher the quality, the larger the file, so you can experiment with different percentages to see what gives you the highest quality video at the lowest file size. By default, try 100% and see if that file size works for you. If the compressed file is too big, try incrementing down at 10% percent intervals til the size is manageable. For sound, you can choose MPEG-4 AAC. Frame size is up to you. It defaults to the video's native size, which tends to maintain the highest quality, but experiment/change the size as you see fit. General rule of thumb - scaling down is ok, scaling up is not ok. The default "Stereo" setting is fine, the default "Auto" is usually fine but can be specified for 44.1khz or 48khz. And the default "256 kbps" is usually fine, but can be reduced if the video is rather large.
Next, select the "Make Movie" button at the bottom right of the window. Determine your file destination, click "Save" and relax while MPEG Streamclip works its magic. If you want to compress multiple clips at once, choose List > Batch List. Click on the "Add Files" button, select the videos, choose a task (usually "Export to Quicktime"), select a Destination folder, and then follow the instructions above to determine the settings. Happy compressing.
Next, select the "Make Movie" button at the bottom right of the window. Determine your file destination, click "Save" and relax while MPEG Streamclip works its magic. If you want to compress multiple clips at once, choose List > Batch List. Click on the "Add Files" button, select the videos, choose a task (usually "Export to Quicktime"), select a Destination folder, and then follow the instructions above to determine the settings. Happy compressing.
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MPEG Streamclip http://www.squared5.com/ is a powerful free video converter, player, editor for Mac and Windows. When you first open MPEG Streamclip, you will see a gray box with five blue dots in the center. Choose File > Open Files. Then navigate to the video you want to compress. The video should appear in the compressor window. If you want to compress the entire video, choose File > Export To ... and choose the appropriate format. If you only want to convert a section of the video, you can click along the timeline directly below the video and press "I" on the keyboard to mark an In-Point and "O" on the keyboard to mark an Out-Point." Only video content between your In and Out points will be exported.
Now, asssuming you want to upload the video to a web site such as Vimeo or Youtube, you will most likely choose "Export To Quicktime." After making that selection, the "Movie Exporter" window will appear.
Now, asssuming you want to upload the video to a web site such as Vimeo or Youtube, you will most likely choose "Export To Quicktime." After making that selection, the "Movie Exporter" window will appear.
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MPEG Streamclip http://www.squared5.com/ is a powerful free video converter, player, editor for Mac and Windows. When you first open MPEG Streamclip, you will see a gray box with five blue dots in the center. Choose File > Open Files. Then navigate to the video you want to compress. The video should appear in the compressor window. If you want to compress the entire video, choose File > Export To ... and choose the appropriate format. If you only want to compress a section of the video, you can click along the timeline directly below the video and press "I" on the keyboard to mark an In-Point and "O" on the keyboard to mark an Out-Point." Only video content between your In and Out points will be exported.
Now, asssuming you want to upload the video to a web site such as Vimeo or Youtube, you will most likely choose "Export To Quicktime." After making that selection, the "Movie Exporter" window will appear. There is a dropdown at the top that by default should say "Apple Motion JPEG A." Choose the dropdown, scroll up and select H.264 for your compression codec. The quality setting defaults to 50%. the higher the quality, the larger the file, so you can experiment with different percentages to see what gives you the highest quality video at the lowest file size. By default, try 100% and see if that file size works for you. If the compressed file is too big, try incrementing down at 10% percent intervals til the size is manageable.
Now, asssuming you want to upload the video to a web site such as Vimeo or Youtube, you will most likely choose "Export To Quicktime." After making that selection, the "Movie Exporter" window will appear. There is a dropdown at the top that by default should say "Apple Motion JPEG A." Choose the dropdown, scroll up and select H.264 for your compression codec. The quality setting defaults to 50%. the higher the quality, the larger the file, so you can experiment with different percentages to see what gives you the highest quality video at the lowest file size. By default, try 100% and see if that file size works for you. If the compressed file is too big, try incrementing down at 10% percent intervals til the size is manageable.
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MPEG Streamclip is a powerful free video converter, player, editor for Mac and Windows. You can download the app here http://www.squared5.com/ When you first open MPEG Streamclip, you will see a gray box with five blue dots in the center. Choose File > Open Files and navigate to and select the video you want to compress. The video should appear in the compressor window. If you want to compress the entire vid, choose File > Export To ... and choose the appropriate format. If you only want to convert a section of the video, you can click along the timeline directly below the video and press "I" on the keyboard to mark an In-Point and "O" on the keyboard to mark an Out-Point." Only video content between your In and Out points will be exported.
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MPEG Streamclip http://www.squared5.com/ is a powerful free video converter, player, editor for Mac and Windows. When you first open MPEG Streamclip, you will see a gray box with five blue dots in the center. Choose File > Open Files. Then navigate to the video you want to compress. The video should appear in the compressor window. If you want to compress the entire video, choose File > Export To ... and choose the appropriate format. If you only want to convert a section of the video, you can click along the timeline directly below the video and press "I" on the keyboard to mark an In-Point and "O" on the keyboard to mark an Out-Point." Only video content between your In and Out points will be exported.
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MPEG Streamclip is a powerful free video converter, player, editor for Mac and Windows (you can download the app at this link: http://www.squared5.com/ ).
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MPEG Streamclip is a powerful free video converter, player, editor for Mac and Windows. You can download the app here http://www.squared5.com/ When you first open MPEG Streamclip, you will see a gray box with five blue dots in the center. Choose File > Open Files and navigate to and select the video you want to compress. The video should appear in the compressor window. If you want to compress the entire vid, choose File > Export To ... and choose the appropriate format. If you only want to convert a section of the video, you can click along the timeline directly below the video and press "I" on the keyboard to mark an In-Point and "O" on the keyboard to mark an Out-Point." Only video content between your In and Out points will be exported.
Now, asssuming you want to upload the video to a web site such as Vimeo or Youtube, you will most likely choose "Export To Quicktime." After making that selection, the "Movie Exporter" window will appear.
Now, asssuming you want to upload the video to a web site such as Vimeo or Youtube, you will most likely choose "Export To Quicktime." After making that selection, the "Movie Exporter" window will appear.
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When you export from FCP, you're actually using Quicktime Pro. Quicktime is the engine under the hood of Final Cut and other DV programs. When you choose File > Export > Using Quicktime Conversion in Final Cut, you're given a couple choices. The first is format — leave this as Quicktime Movie. The second choice is the settings — the menu gives you a choice between several presets. Look for the preset that best matches your target audience. If you know a lot of people are going to view your clip over a dial-up connection, for instance, select one of the modem presets. Selecting on of these presets automatically configurse more detailed parameters — things like frame rate and data rate. You can click on the option button to see it all spelled out. But more often than not you won't have to change anything. The presets were engineered to meet the needs of most authors and viewers.
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For more information, look under the Help menu in Final Cut.
These presets are also available in the Quicktime Player. Just open a clip and choose Export under the File menu.
Note: The Quicktime export presets all use MPEG-4 compression. MP4 makes for good image quality with relatively small file size, but people will need at least Quicktime 6 to view for clips. For clips that are friendly with earlier versions of Quicktime, try one of the mov presets in Squeeze.
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After Effects doesn't offer the same Web-ready presets, so it's often easier to export a high quality clip and then bring it into Squeeze or a similar program. To export, choose Composition > Add to Render Queue. From the Render Settings pop-up menu, choose Best Settings and for Output Module choose Lossless. (If you have audio in you project, click on the blue hyperlink next to Output Module. Make sure that Audio Output is checked in the window that pops up, and click OK.) Click the Output To hyperlink and tell AE where to save your clip and what to call it.
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After Effects doesn't offer the same Web-ready presets, so it's often easier to export a high quality clip and then bring it into MPeg StreamClip or a similar program. To export, choose Composition > Add to Render Queue. From the Render Settings pop-up menu, choose Best Settings and for Output Module choose Lossless. (If you have audio in you project, click on the blue hyperlink next to Output Module. Make sure that Audio Output is checked in the window that pops up, and click OK.) Click the Output To hyperlink and tell AE where to save your clip and what to call it.
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!!! '''Compressing a Clip with Squeeze'''
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!!! '''Compressing a Clip with MPEG Streamclip'''
MPEG Streamclip is a powerful free video converter, player, editor for Mac and Windows (you can download the app at this link: http://www.squared5.com/ ).
MPEG Streamclip is a powerful free video converter, player, editor for Mac and Windows (you can download the app at this link: http://www.squared5.com/ ).
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Codec: H.264
Frame rate: 24, 25, or 30 FPS
Data rate: 2000 kbps (SD), 5000 kbps (HD)
Resolution: 640x480 (SD), 1280x720 or 1920X1080 (HD)
Audio codec: AAC (Advanced Audio Codec)
Data rate: 320 kbps
Sample rate: 44.1 kHz
Frame rate: 24, 25, or 30 FPS
Data rate: 2000 kbps (SD), 5000 kbps (HD)
Resolution: 640x480 (SD), 1280x720 or 1920X1080 (HD)
Audio codec: AAC (Advanced Audio Codec)
Data rate: 320 kbps
Sample rate: 44.1 kHz
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* Codec: H.264
* Frame rate: 24, 25, or 30 FPS
* Data rate: 2000 kbps (SD), 5000 kbps (HD)
* Resolution: 640x480 (SD), 1280x720 or 1920X1080 (HD)
* Audio codec: AAC (Advanced Audio Codec)
* Data rate: 320 kbps
* Sample rate: 44.1 kHz
* Frame rate: 24, 25, or 30 FPS
* Data rate: 2000 kbps (SD), 5000 kbps (HD)
* Resolution: 640x480 (SD), 1280x720 or 1920X1080 (HD)
* Audio codec: AAC (Advanced Audio Codec)
* Data rate: 320 kbps
* Sample rate: 44.1 kHz
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VIMEO: Go to the video's page and click the "Share" button that appears when you hover your mouse over the video player. A screen will pop up and you can copy the embed code that appears in the top right-hand corner, then just paste that code in your site or blogging software.
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VIMEO: Go to the video's page and click the "Share" button that appears when you hover your mouse over the video player. A screen will pop up and you can copy the embed code that appears in the top right-hand corner, then just paste that code in your site or blogging software. Plus and PRO users have the option to not only embed their videos in HD, but also to default those videos to be viewed in HD. This is a sweet way to make sure that your crisp HD videos are seen in their full resolution glory when they're embedded off of Vimeo.
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The most convenient way of sharing your videos now is creating your own channel in Vimeo or You Tube. There are different pros and cons in both depending in what do you want to do with your video
'''You Tube:'''
* Possibility of your video being seen increases greatly
* Unlimited uploads
* 100% free to use and fully customizable
* Faster upload
* Lower quality
'''Vimeo:'''
* Higher quality
* You have to wait to upload, unless you go Pro paying for it
* Everything is organized and easily searchable. Works as your portfolio
* This is the system that most people in ITP use
'''COMPRESSION SETTINGS FOR VIMEO AND YOU TUBE'''
Codec: H.264
Frame rate: 24, 25, or 30 FPS
Data rate: 2000 kbps (SD), 5000 kbps (HD)
Resolution: 640x480 (SD), 1280x720 or 1920X1080 (HD)
Audio codec: AAC (Advanced Audio Codec)
Data rate: 320 kbps
Sample rate: 44.1 kHz
!!! '''Embedding Video in a Web Page'''
You can embed your you tube or vimeo videos in your own website
VIMEO: Go to the video's page and click the "Share" button that appears when you hover your mouse over the video player. A screen will pop up and you can copy the embed code that appears in the top right-hand corner, then just paste that code in your site or blogging software.
YOU TUBE: Click the Share button located under the video. Click the Embed button. Copy the code provided in the expanded box. Paste the code into your blog or website. You may also customize your own embeddable player by clicking on the embed code. When you click on the embed code the space below it will expand and reveal customization options such as:
whether or not to include related videos
whether or not to enable privacy-enhanced mode
whether or not to use use the old embed code
the size
'''You Tube:'''
* Possibility of your video being seen increases greatly
* Unlimited uploads
* 100% free to use and fully customizable
* Faster upload
* Lower quality
'''Vimeo:'''
* Higher quality
* You have to wait to upload, unless you go Pro paying for it
* Everything is organized and easily searchable. Works as your portfolio
* This is the system that most people in ITP use
'''COMPRESSION SETTINGS FOR VIMEO AND YOU TUBE'''
Codec: H.264
Frame rate: 24, 25, or 30 FPS
Data rate: 2000 kbps (SD), 5000 kbps (HD)
Resolution: 640x480 (SD), 1280x720 or 1920X1080 (HD)
Audio codec: AAC (Advanced Audio Codec)
Data rate: 320 kbps
Sample rate: 44.1 kHz
!!! '''Embedding Video in a Web Page'''
You can embed your you tube or vimeo videos in your own website
VIMEO: Go to the video's page and click the "Share" button that appears when you hover your mouse over the video player. A screen will pop up and you can copy the embed code that appears in the top right-hand corner, then just paste that code in your site or blogging software.
YOU TUBE: Click the Share button located under the video. Click the Embed button. Copy the code provided in the expanded box. Paste the code into your blog or website. You may also customize your own embeddable player by clicking on the embed code. When you click on the embed code the space below it will expand and reveal customization options such as:
whether or not to include related videos
whether or not to enable privacy-enhanced mode
whether or not to use use the old embed code
the size
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Use Fugu, Fetch or any other FTP program to upload your file to your directory on the Quicktime server. The server's address is qtmedia.itp.tsoa.nyu.edu. Then you can link to your clip with a URL along the lines of: rtsp://qtmedia.itp.tsoa.nyu.edu/yournetid/yourclip.mov. (You can't connect to the streaming server with an http:// URL.)
!!! '''Embedding Video in a Web Page'''
If you have any experience designing Web sites, you know that one page can look and act differently from one browswer to the next, one platform to the next. That's certainly the case when it comes to embedding Quicktime video within a page. The following code does the trick most of the time — Mac or PC, IE, Netscape or Safari. Just copy it into your own Web page.
<OBJECT CLASSID="clsid:02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B" WIDTH="360" HEIGHT="282" CODEBASE="http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab">
<PARAM name="SRC" VALUE="rtsp://qtmedia.itp.tsoa.nyu.edu/yourDirectory/yourMovie.mov">
<PARAM name="AUTOPLAY" VALUE="true">
<PARAM name="CONTROLLER" VALUE="true">
<EMBED SRC="rtsp://qtmedia.itp.tsoa.nyu.edu/yourDirectory/yourMovie.mov" WIDTH="360" HEIGHT="282" AUTOPLAY="true" CONTROLLER="true" PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/">
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</OBJECT>
If it looks redundant, it is. That's just to cover the bases with the different browsers. Obviously you'll have to change some of the parameters to match your own clip, but that should be pretty straightforward.
Remember to add 16 to the height of your movie to allow for the playback controls at the bottom of your clip.
In the code above, notice that the URLs for your clip begin with rtsp:// and end with .mov — the file extension for the Quicktime clip. On most servers — like Stage for instance — you can link to your clip just like you would any other file, with a URL starting with http://. That's NOT the case with the Quicktime server. If you're linking to a clip on the streaming server, your URL should begin with rstp:// instead. For realtime clips, your URL should begin with rtsp:// and end with .sdp instead of .mov.
Apple's site has a [[http://www.apple.com/quicktime/authoring/embed.html | detailed description ]] of all the possible attributes of an Embed tag.
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Realtime streaming is most often used to broadcast live video and audio over the Internet. You'll still have a file in your directory on the Quicktime server, and you'll still refer viewers to that URL, but the bulk of the work is done by a separate computer running Quicktime Broadcaster, a [[http://www.apple.com/quicktime/products/broadcaster/ | free download]] from Apple's Web site. Basically you capture video in realtime using a camera attached to the broadcaster computer. That computer compresses and encodes the video as fast as possible, and then sends that information over the network to the server. The server then makes the video available to all the users connected to it.
!!! '''Quicktime Broadcaster'''
You can download and install the software for free on any Mac running OS X. First, plug in an iSight, a DV camcorder, or another Firewire camera, then start up Quicktime Broadcaster. Configuring the broadcast is easy.
First, click the Show Details button if it's available. Click on the Audio tab and choose a preset based on your intended audience and the type of footage you plan to shoot. If you know a lot of people are going to view your clip over a dial-up connection, for instance, select one of the modem presets. The details at the bottom of the window change according to which preset you select. Then click on the Video tab and choose a preset and a source.
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Finally, click on the Network tab to point Quicktime Broadcaster to your directory on ITP's Quicktime server. The host name should be qtmedia.itp.tsoa.nyu.edu. The file should be yournetid/filename. (There's no need for a ~ tilde character before your net ID, and the file name can be whatever you want.) Your username should match your net ID (again, no ~ character) and your password is the password you chose when you set up your account on the Quicktime server. You can leave everything else just as it is.
If you want to save the stream to your local computer (the broadcast computer), check the Record to disk box on the left of the screen. Then click the Broadcast button to start streaming. Users can connect to the stream with a URL like this: rtsp://qtmedia.itp.tsoa.nyu.edu/yournetid/yourclip.sdp
(Notice the URL starts with rtsp and not http. It stands for Real Time Streaming Protocol and it tells your Web browser to handle it a little differently than other media.)
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Apple's site has a [[http://www.apple.com/quicktime/authoring/embed.html | detailed description ]] of all the possible attributes of an Embed tag.
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Realtime streaming is most often used to broadcast live video and audio over the Internet. You'll still have a file in your directory on the Quicktime server, and you'll still refer viewers to that URL, but the bulk of the work is done by a separate computer running Quicktime Broadcaster, a free download from Apple's Web site. Basically you capture video in realtime using a camera attached to the broadcaster computer. That computer compresses and encodes the video as fast as possible, and then sends that information over the network to the server. The server then makes the video available to all the users connected to it.
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Realtime streaming is most often used to broadcast live video and audio over the Internet. You'll still have a file in your directory on the Quicktime server, and you'll still refer viewers to that URL, but the bulk of the work is done by a separate computer running Quicktime Broadcaster, a [[http://www.apple.com/quicktime/products/broadcaster/ | free download]] from Apple's Web site. Basically you capture video in realtime using a camera attached to the broadcaster computer. That computer compresses and encodes the video as fast as possible, and then sends that information over the network to the server. The server then makes the video available to all the users connected to it.
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ITP's Quicktime server is configured to play large Quicktime clips as well as stream live video feeds over the Web. Contact Nancy Lewis if you need an account on the server.
!!! '''Progressive Streaming'''
Progressive streaming is best for making making short video clips available online. You basically upload a compressed Quicktime clip to our Quicktime server, just like you'd upload an HTML page or a JPG image or any other type of file to Stage or another server. You can then link to that file using a URL, just like you would any other file on the Web.
If you want put a Quicktime clip online, the first step is to compress it. The dimensions, data rate and frame rate of a typical digital video clip are just too large to play over the Internet, even with the fastest connection. You've got a lot of options when it comes to compression, and we've got a few different software packages that can do the job. Fortunately the engineers behind Quicktime Pro, Sorenson Squeeze and Cleaner have sorted through the confusion of codecs, frame rates, data rates, and they've come up with a handful of presets to get you started.
To play a clip from the Quicktime server, it has to be hinted for streaming. Your clip will be hinted automatically if you use one of the Quicktime Pro streaming presets or Sorenson Squeeze streaming presets described below. If you want to hint a clip without applying any further compression — like an MP3 for instance — you can open your clip in Quicktime Pro and choose Export > Hinted Movie under the File menu.
You may want to export a Web-compressed Quicktime clip right out of Final Cut or After Effects, or you may want to export a higher quality clip first — for playback from your own computer, for instance — then bring that clip into Squeeze or Cleaner to create a smaller version for the Web.
!!! '''Exporting for the Web from Final Cut'''
When you export from FCP, you're actually using Quicktime Pro. Quicktime is the engine under the hood of Final Cut and other DV programs. When you choose File > Export > Using Quicktime Conversion in Final Cut, you're given a couple choices. The first is format — leave this as Quicktime Movie. The second choice is the settings — the menu gives you a choice between several presets. Look for the preset that best matches your target audience. If you know a lot of people are going to view your clip over a dial-up connection, for instance, select one of the modem presets. Selecting on of these presets automatically configurse more detailed parameters — things like frame rate and data rate. You can click on the option button to see it all spelled out. But more often than not you won't have to change anything. The presets were engineered to meet the needs of most authors and viewers.
For more information, look under the Help menu in Final Cut.
These presets are also available in the Quicktime Player. Just open a clip and choose Export under the File menu.
Note: The Quicktime export presets all use MPEG-4 compression. MP4 makes for good image quality with relatively small file size, but people will need at least Quicktime 6 to view for clips. For clips that are friendly with earlier versions of Quicktime, try one of the mov presets in Squeeze.
!!! '''Exporting from After Effects'''
After Effects doesn't offer the same Web-ready presets, so it's often easier to export a high quality clip and then bring it into Squeeze or a similar program. To export, choose Composition > Add to Render Queue. From the Render Settings pop-up menu, choose Best Settings and for Output Module choose Lossless. (If you have audio in you project, click on the blue hyperlink next to Output Module. Make sure that Audio Output is checked in the window that pops up, and click OK.) Click the Output To hyperlink and tell AE where to save your clip and what to call it.
For more information, look under the Help menu in After Effects.
!!! '''Compressing a Clip with Squeeze'''
When it comes high quality and small file size, Sorenson Squeeze can be a miracle worker. Just start up the program, then click the Movie File icon. Find the clip you want to compress. Squeeze opens a window with a preview of your clip on the left, and a series of buttons across the top. Hold the mouse pointer over the buttons and little tooltips will pop up to explain what each button does. First, select one of the Output Type buttons on the top left. (Mov is the default and chances are that's what you want.) Next select one of the Quicktime Compression Settings. Streaming 100k is a good middle-of-the-road solution. Then click the Squeeze It button. That's about all there is to it. Like Quicktime Pro, you CAN go in and tweak the various settings within a preset, but most of the time you probably won't need to.
For more information, look under the Help menu in Squeeze.
!!! '''Uploading to ITP's Quicktime Server'''
Use Fugu, Fetch or any other FTP program to upload your file to your directory on the Quicktime server. The server's address is qtmedia.itp.tsoa.nyu.edu. Then you can link to your clip with a URL along the lines of: rtsp://qtmedia.itp.tsoa.nyu.edu/yournetid/yourclip.mov. (You can't connect to the streaming server with an http:// URL.)
!!! '''Realtime Streaming'''
Realtime streaming is most often used to broadcast live video and audio over the Internet. You'll still have a file in your directory on the Quicktime server, and you'll still refer viewers to that URL, but the bulk of the work is done by a separate computer running Quicktime Broadcaster, a free download from Apple's Web site. Basically you capture video in realtime using a camera attached to the broadcaster computer. That computer compresses and encodes the video as fast as possible, and then sends that information over the network to the server. The server then makes the video available to all the users connected to it.
!!! '''Quicktime Broadcaster'''
You can download and install the software for free on any Mac running OS X. First, plug in an iSight, a DV camcorder, or another Firewire camera, then start up Quicktime Broadcaster. Configuring the broadcast is easy.
First, click the Show Details button if it's available. Click on the Audio tab and choose a preset based on your intended audience and the type of footage you plan to shoot. If you know a lot of people are going to view your clip over a dial-up connection, for instance, select one of the modem presets. The details at the bottom of the window change according to which preset you select. Then click on the Video tab and choose a preset and a source.
Finally, click on the Network tab to point Quicktime Broadcaster to your directory on ITP's Quicktime server. The host name should be qtmedia.itp.tsoa.nyu.edu. The file should be yournetid/filename. (There's no need for a ~ tilde character before your net ID, and the file name can be whatever you want.) Your username should match your net ID (again, no ~ character) and your password is the password you chose when you set up your account on the Quicktime server. You can leave everything else just as it is.
If you want to save the stream to your local computer (the broadcast computer), check the Record to disk box on the left of the screen. Then click the Broadcast button to start streaming. Users can connect to the stream with a URL like this: rtsp://qtmedia.itp.tsoa.nyu.edu/yournetid/yourclip.sdp
(Notice the URL starts with rtsp and not http. It stands for Real Time Streaming Protocol and it tells your Web browser to handle it a little differently than other media.)
!!! '''Embedding Video in a Web Page'''
If you have any experience designing Web sites, you know that one page can look and act differently from one browswer to the next, one platform to the next. That's certainly the case when it comes to embedding Quicktime video within a page. The following code does the trick most of the time — Mac or PC, IE, Netscape or Safari. Just copy it into your own Web page.
<OBJECT CLASSID="clsid:02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B" WIDTH="360" HEIGHT="282" CODEBASE="http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab">
<PARAM name="SRC" VALUE="rtsp://qtmedia.itp.tsoa.nyu.edu/yourDirectory/yourMovie.mov">
<PARAM name="AUTOPLAY" VALUE="true">
<PARAM name="CONTROLLER" VALUE="true">
<EMBED SRC="rtsp://qtmedia.itp.tsoa.nyu.edu/yourDirectory/yourMovie.mov" WIDTH="360" HEIGHT="282" AUTOPLAY="true" CONTROLLER="true" PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/">
</EMBED>
</OBJECT>
If it looks redundant, it is. That's just to cover the bases with the different browsers. Obviously you'll have to change some of the parameters to match your own clip, but that should be pretty straightforward.
Remember to add 16 to the height of your movie to allow for the playback controls at the bottom of your clip.
In the code above, notice that the URLs for your clip begin with rtsp:// and end with .mov — the file extension for the Quicktime clip. On most servers — like Stage for instance — you can link to your clip just like you would any other file, with a URL starting with http://. That's NOT the case with the Quicktime server. If you're linking to a clip on the streaming server, your URL should begin with rstp:// instead. For realtime clips, your URL should begin with rtsp:// and end with .sdp instead of .mov.
Apple's site has a detailed description of all the possible attributes of an Embed tag.
ITP's Quicktime server is configured to play large Quicktime clips as well as stream live video feeds over the Web. Contact Nancy Lewis if you need an account on the server.
!!! '''Progressive Streaming'''
Progressive streaming is best for making making short video clips available online. You basically upload a compressed Quicktime clip to our Quicktime server, just like you'd upload an HTML page or a JPG image or any other type of file to Stage or another server. You can then link to that file using a URL, just like you would any other file on the Web.
If you want put a Quicktime clip online, the first step is to compress it. The dimensions, data rate and frame rate of a typical digital video clip are just too large to play over the Internet, even with the fastest connection. You've got a lot of options when it comes to compression, and we've got a few different software packages that can do the job. Fortunately the engineers behind Quicktime Pro, Sorenson Squeeze and Cleaner have sorted through the confusion of codecs, frame rates, data rates, and they've come up with a handful of presets to get you started.
To play a clip from the Quicktime server, it has to be hinted for streaming. Your clip will be hinted automatically if you use one of the Quicktime Pro streaming presets or Sorenson Squeeze streaming presets described below. If you want to hint a clip without applying any further compression — like an MP3 for instance — you can open your clip in Quicktime Pro and choose Export > Hinted Movie under the File menu.
You may want to export a Web-compressed Quicktime clip right out of Final Cut or After Effects, or you may want to export a higher quality clip first — for playback from your own computer, for instance — then bring that clip into Squeeze or Cleaner to create a smaller version for the Web.
!!! '''Exporting for the Web from Final Cut'''
When you export from FCP, you're actually using Quicktime Pro. Quicktime is the engine under the hood of Final Cut and other DV programs. When you choose File > Export > Using Quicktime Conversion in Final Cut, you're given a couple choices. The first is format — leave this as Quicktime Movie. The second choice is the settings — the menu gives you a choice between several presets. Look for the preset that best matches your target audience. If you know a lot of people are going to view your clip over a dial-up connection, for instance, select one of the modem presets. Selecting on of these presets automatically configurse more detailed parameters — things like frame rate and data rate. You can click on the option button to see it all spelled out. But more often than not you won't have to change anything. The presets were engineered to meet the needs of most authors and viewers.
For more information, look under the Help menu in Final Cut.
These presets are also available in the Quicktime Player. Just open a clip and choose Export under the File menu.
Note: The Quicktime export presets all use MPEG-4 compression. MP4 makes for good image quality with relatively small file size, but people will need at least Quicktime 6 to view for clips. For clips that are friendly with earlier versions of Quicktime, try one of the mov presets in Squeeze.
!!! '''Exporting from After Effects'''
After Effects doesn't offer the same Web-ready presets, so it's often easier to export a high quality clip and then bring it into Squeeze or a similar program. To export, choose Composition > Add to Render Queue. From the Render Settings pop-up menu, choose Best Settings and for Output Module choose Lossless. (If you have audio in you project, click on the blue hyperlink next to Output Module. Make sure that Audio Output is checked in the window that pops up, and click OK.) Click the Output To hyperlink and tell AE where to save your clip and what to call it.
For more information, look under the Help menu in After Effects.
!!! '''Compressing a Clip with Squeeze'''
When it comes high quality and small file size, Sorenson Squeeze can be a miracle worker. Just start up the program, then click the Movie File icon. Find the clip you want to compress. Squeeze opens a window with a preview of your clip on the left, and a series of buttons across the top. Hold the mouse pointer over the buttons and little tooltips will pop up to explain what each button does. First, select one of the Output Type buttons on the top left. (Mov is the default and chances are that's what you want.) Next select one of the Quicktime Compression Settings. Streaming 100k is a good middle-of-the-road solution. Then click the Squeeze It button. That's about all there is to it. Like Quicktime Pro, you CAN go in and tweak the various settings within a preset, but most of the time you probably won't need to.
For more information, look under the Help menu in Squeeze.
!!! '''Uploading to ITP's Quicktime Server'''
Use Fugu, Fetch or any other FTP program to upload your file to your directory on the Quicktime server. The server's address is qtmedia.itp.tsoa.nyu.edu. Then you can link to your clip with a URL along the lines of: rtsp://qtmedia.itp.tsoa.nyu.edu/yournetid/yourclip.mov. (You can't connect to the streaming server with an http:// URL.)
!!! '''Realtime Streaming'''
Realtime streaming is most often used to broadcast live video and audio over the Internet. You'll still have a file in your directory on the Quicktime server, and you'll still refer viewers to that URL, but the bulk of the work is done by a separate computer running Quicktime Broadcaster, a free download from Apple's Web site. Basically you capture video in realtime using a camera attached to the broadcaster computer. That computer compresses and encodes the video as fast as possible, and then sends that information over the network to the server. The server then makes the video available to all the users connected to it.
!!! '''Quicktime Broadcaster'''
You can download and install the software for free on any Mac running OS X. First, plug in an iSight, a DV camcorder, or another Firewire camera, then start up Quicktime Broadcaster. Configuring the broadcast is easy.
First, click the Show Details button if it's available. Click on the Audio tab and choose a preset based on your intended audience and the type of footage you plan to shoot. If you know a lot of people are going to view your clip over a dial-up connection, for instance, select one of the modem presets. The details at the bottom of the window change according to which preset you select. Then click on the Video tab and choose a preset and a source.
Finally, click on the Network tab to point Quicktime Broadcaster to your directory on ITP's Quicktime server. The host name should be qtmedia.itp.tsoa.nyu.edu. The file should be yournetid/filename. (There's no need for a ~ tilde character before your net ID, and the file name can be whatever you want.) Your username should match your net ID (again, no ~ character) and your password is the password you chose when you set up your account on the Quicktime server. You can leave everything else just as it is.
If you want to save the stream to your local computer (the broadcast computer), check the Record to disk box on the left of the screen. Then click the Broadcast button to start streaming. Users can connect to the stream with a URL like this: rtsp://qtmedia.itp.tsoa.nyu.edu/yournetid/yourclip.sdp
(Notice the URL starts with rtsp and not http. It stands for Real Time Streaming Protocol and it tells your Web browser to handle it a little differently than other media.)
!!! '''Embedding Video in a Web Page'''
If you have any experience designing Web sites, you know that one page can look and act differently from one browswer to the next, one platform to the next. That's certainly the case when it comes to embedding Quicktime video within a page. The following code does the trick most of the time — Mac or PC, IE, Netscape or Safari. Just copy it into your own Web page.
<OBJECT CLASSID="clsid:02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B" WIDTH="360" HEIGHT="282" CODEBASE="http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab">
<PARAM name="SRC" VALUE="rtsp://qtmedia.itp.tsoa.nyu.edu/yourDirectory/yourMovie.mov">
<PARAM name="AUTOPLAY" VALUE="true">
<PARAM name="CONTROLLER" VALUE="true">
<EMBED SRC="rtsp://qtmedia.itp.tsoa.nyu.edu/yourDirectory/yourMovie.mov" WIDTH="360" HEIGHT="282" AUTOPLAY="true" CONTROLLER="true" PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/">
</EMBED>
</OBJECT>
If it looks redundant, it is. That's just to cover the bases with the different browsers. Obviously you'll have to change some of the parameters to match your own clip, but that should be pretty straightforward.
Remember to add 16 to the height of your movie to allow for the playback controls at the bottom of your clip.
In the code above, notice that the URLs for your clip begin with rtsp:// and end with .mov — the file extension for the Quicktime clip. On most servers — like Stage for instance — you can link to your clip just like you would any other file, with a URL starting with http://. That's NOT the case with the Quicktime server. If you're linking to a clip on the streaming server, your URL should begin with rstp:// instead. For realtime clips, your URL should begin with rtsp:// and end with .sdp instead of .mov.
Apple's site has a detailed description of all the possible attributes of an Embed tag.