oh, it takes m4v, but I heard that there is a lot of quality degradation in the conversion/compression process, visually anyway, not so much aurally, which is all I really care about. It’s a great video exchange teaching site for Bluegrass instruments - among others called www.artistsworks.com You create and upload a video of your playing of a given lesson, and the teacher reviews and critiques your video with one of his own, the two are then paired and stored as a “video exchange” and can be viewed by all other students. Other video exchanges from the student body are also available to you for viewing/learning.
It’s a great concept and new to me. It’s kind of like “fly on the wall” learning where you essentially sit in on the lessons of any/all students. Of course, there is a large catalog of prerecorded lessons by the teacher for each genre/instrument for viewing as well, and other stuff too like interviews with famous players etc. If you’re a guitarist, or any number of other instruments and genre’s, and you are looking for a new way of learning/advancing then check it out - I am very impressed with the banjo portion of the site anyway. On Aug 21, 2014, at 3:52 PM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries <[email protected]> wrote: > Sorry, I had read it backwards. I wasn't aware that FLV was still supported > much out in the wild as most places have gone to MPEG, so I thought you were > trying to convert FLV to MPEG before uploading it. If your source video is > m4v format then most sites should be happy with it. What site are you trying > to upload to that doesn't take mpeg4? > > CB > > On 8/21/14, 2:38 PM, Phil Halton wrote: >> I know practically nothing about video. All I want to do is to convert my >> iMovie stuff.M4 V format, into an FLV format for upload to an online musical >> instruction site. I don't really even know if it's necessary. I'm not all >> that concerned about the video graininess etc., but I want the audio to stay >> high quality. Again, all I want to do is convert from Apple formats to FLV >> format. >> >> Sent from my IPhone >> >> >>> On Aug 21, 2014, at 11:58 AM, "'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries" >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> FLV or Flash Video is a container which can hold any number of video >>> formats. The older ones used the Sorenson or On2 codecs while the newer >>> ones now support h.264 (MPEG4). So FLV in of itself may or may not have the >>> old junky video formats. One quick way to tell is to just rename the .flv >>> to .mp4 and try to open it with Quicktime Player. Most content sites have >>> moved to MPEG as the other codecs are not generally supported on mobile >>> devices. So if you have an FLV, there is a good chance its something pretty >>> old and probably in one of the old codecs. >>> >>> All that said, Handbrake should be able to convert old FLVs to MPEG so you >>> can use them on modern platforms. >>> >>> https://handbrake.fr >>> >>> CB >>> >>>> On 8/21/14, 10:04 AM, Phil Halton wrote: >>>> I understand that FLV is the preferred format for many online video sites >>>> such as YouTube, and that most of these sites convert uploaded videos into >>>> FLV format. I want to do the conversion myself and upload the FLV video to >>>> avoid crappy conversion results. Is there a good app that will let me >>>> convert iMovie videos .M4V format into FLV? Preferrably free of course. >>> -- >>> ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to [email protected]. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
