OT: Purchasing FLV Encoder ???

Dach wrote on 1/22/2008, 8:18 AM
I am in need of purchasing a Flash encoder for the first time and while I have reviewed past posts I could use any insight that you may have to offer.

I am currently considering Camtasia Studio and On2's Flix Pro. Camtasia seems to be the biggest bang for my buck and when I look at On2 selection I see the Pro, Standard and several other versions and simply get confused.

All I need is to take my finished project from Vegas and encode into FLV for web distribution.

I like Camtasia Studio for what it has to offer. Does it have any short comings when it comes to FLV file creation?

Thanks for any advice,

Chad

Comments

DJPadre wrote on 1/22/2008, 8:42 AM
I use FLV and cannot fault it.. SOME colour bleed does happen, but id rather that than drab colour anyway.
Files are only slightly larger than WMV's however im now at a crossroads as to whether to use it for myonline theatre.

Reason being bandwidth.. If i can save bandwidth, id prefer to do that, however i dont like the idea of someone downlaoding my work and continually analysing it in an attempt to duplicate it. Ive had MANY issues in the past with this happening, so protecting my content is paramount. In any case, im still looking into the deicsion but the FLV encoder is indeed a good one.

Jsut dont put WMV's into it as these will puke the app.
DV avi looks fine though.
Sadly u cant use the codec within vegas, but as a standalone app, its pretty quick even on a single core HT cpu

Guy Bruner wrote on 1/24/2008, 12:03 AM
Instead of spending money on a tool just to produce FLVs, why not try a free one?

Riva FLV Encoder

Guy
Camcorder User Network
deusx wrote on 1/24/2008, 1:42 AM
By the time I have anything of my own worthy of showing, the newest flash player should have enough of a penetration and it plays mp4 files which look a bit better and are slightly smaller than .flv and you can export them directly from Vegas.

So if you can convince your viewers to download the latest flash player, I'd go with that.

For clients' stuff, I still use sorenson to export to .flv. There, being able to see it right away is more important than slightly better image and smaller file sizes.
DJPadre wrote on 1/24/2008, 2:15 AM
nstead of spending money on a tool just to produce FLVs, why not try a free one?

Riva FLV Encoder


THATS teh one i got...

what i did i say before??? This one is free anyway and u can also have an embedded player with the file itself..
Also this one doesnt require any vertical flipping (apparently flipping is a nuance of FLV) but this takes care of that..

Soz bout my stuff up
birdcat wrote on 1/24/2008, 12:42 PM
I use Flix Standard (it was $39 when I got it - still may be) and it works great - Can encode SWF and FLV from a variety of video formats.

I also have Camtasia Studio (an earlier version they were giving away free - search the archives - it might still be available) but haven't played with that as of yet (no time).
TheDingo wrote on 1/24/2008, 2:10 PM
I've been using the Flix Pro encoder for a couple of years now. I went with Flix Pro because it looked like the best encoder to produce 2-pass high-quality FLV videos. On2 invented the VP6 CODEC that FLV videos use, so I figured that they would know how to produce the best encoder for their own invention.

I am surprised that people are mentioning Camtasia Studio, as I thought it was more of a screen-capture / authoring tool, than an encoder.

Another FLV encoder that I like is the Sorenson Squeeze 4.8 encoder, which is good encoder, but I've had issues when trying to batch process large numbers of files with it.