Best (and fastest) way to export to FLV?

Former user wrote on 10/6/2007, 12:15 PM
Work consists of a pretty intense grind of shoot, edit, and post on the web. I'm looking at ways to speed up the process.

Step 1: Bought a Sony CX7 - the idea being that if I can just grab video files I can dump and start cutting right away. Well, that was shot down since V8 doesn't seem to like importing audio from the MPEG2 SD video, (or the files themselves for that matter).

Step 2: Went back to the DVX100B and capture in real time (sigh).

Step 3: Cut, and export. I'm trying to find the fastest export/recompress to flv combination (or anything that's affordable and fast for FLV compression - we're sports web, so time is of the essence. The fast we can post the stuff, the better.

Exporting the DV video to a DV video is great since only titles and transitions need to be recompressed.

Ideally V8 would have a built-in flash video export (which it doesn't - does anyone know of a plugin?)

Finally, I'm using On2 Flix to recompress for flash. Small files, reaonsably quick.

Our content varies wildly in size and scope, from interviews, to action. Videos can be as short as a couple of minutes, or as long as 15 mins.

Anyone have suggestions for speeding up our workflow?

Comments

Spot|DSE wrote on 10/6/2007, 1:01 PM
First, back up the bus....
What do you mean that "V8 doesn't seem to like importing audio from the MPEG2 SD video, (or the files themselves for that matter). ?"

Thus far, no problems with either the CX7 or SR7 in Vegas 8, I've got probably 20 hours on the CX7 within Vegas 8. What specific problem are you having? (Define steps, please?)

That said, the AVCHD footage isn't going to be fast. Even on a Quad CPU, it's slow to render to SD DVD, and can be frustrating to edit on anything but a behemoth machine.

No plug for V8 and Flash. On2Flix is pretty darn good, Squeeze does an OK job too.
Really, the only faster thing you might do is shoot straight to HDD such as a DR60 or Firestore, as far as I can think of.
UKAndrewC wrote on 10/6/2007, 4:36 PM
Hello there

DebugMode frameserve directly to On2 Flix encoder. Flix isn't the fastest encoder but it is by far the best.

If you want a really fast FLV encode then Frameserve to FFMPEG. The quality is less but the speed is twice that of Flix.

Andrew

Former user wrote on 10/8/2007, 10:26 PM
Thanks Andrew...good information. I have On2, but never used it in debug.

As for the import problem with the CX7...well, I can import the video, but the audio doesn't import (this is a dual core XP sp2 system).

THEN, on the QuadCore Vista system (which I'm seriously thinking about UPgrading to XP), I can import the video (again, no audio), but the video locks up. This is just SD video...the MTS files actually work great. They're just BEASTLY huge and frankly, since nearly everything is ending up on the web in 480x360, I wanted the MPG2 to be more robust.

I'll experiment the MPG2s on the CX7 more this week (the process is just to copy the files directly to Hard-drive and then cut them from there). That said, the last couple of times I did it, it was the same. I'll have an update for you sometime Tuesday.

Thx again for the info (I'll take a look at FFMPEG as well - just so see if it's acceptable for our use).
timtak wrote on 10/20/2007, 3:09 AM
> That said, the AVCHD footage isn't going to be fast.
> Even on a Quad CPU, it's slow to render to SD DVD,
> and can be frustrating to edit on anything but a behemoth machine.
I have a dual 3GHz with 2GB ram.

Please can you tell me how frustrating it is going to be to edit?

I don't mind waiting a while for the render.

Tim
Former user wrote on 11/29/2007, 4:08 PM
On a strong system it's actually pretty good (single core - blah, not good - multicore it's okay). But if your'e on an older system, you're looking at cutting with 5fps, maybe 10 in draft mode.
Laurence wrote on 11/29/2007, 5:26 PM
I just use Gearshift for AVCHD video. It works great.