AVI to FLV?

vicmilt wrote on 5/24/2007, 5:15 AM

Would you say that the "best" web movie player is now FLV?

What are you using to do this conversion from Vegas?

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logiquem wrote on 5/24/2007, 5:24 AM

1.export from Vegas in the final desired format (size and frame rate). I use QT mpeg 4 codec (no bitrate limit) for this duty.

2.convert with stand alone On2 Flixpro.

I would vastly prefer a straight path from Vegas for FLV, but the above process is efficient.

NickHope wrote on 5/24/2007, 6:50 AM

Vic, yes for web delivery I reckon FLV's caught up with everything else now other than maybe stuff like the DivX movies on Stage6.com

I used Adobe Flash successfully with the On2 codec selected (as opposed to Sorenson). Nice result.

Also used On2 Flix Standard successfully and could not really tell the difference from the 2-pass VBR Pro trial version's result.

The last one I just let Brightcove's Publishpod do it for me with all the best settings inc 2-pass and the result was great. But obviously then Brightcove will be hosting the file for you.

BrianStanding wrote on 5/24/2007, 8:44 AM

It certainly has the largest installed user base, and it's pretty platform agnostic. So, for the purposes of getting it out to a lot of people with a minimum of fuss, yes, FLV's the best.

I use the FLV converter built in to After Effects 6.0. Very nice output, but unfortunately, it doesn't do batch.

I sure hope Vegas 8 ships with the On2 codec, so it can do FLV natively.

bStro wrote on 5/24/2007, 9:51 AM

I render to AVI (generally DV) from Vegas and use Riva FLV Encoder. Though I do now have access to a "real" (aka, commercial) FLV encoder, so I may try using that. I've been pretty happy with Riva, though.

Rob