Thanks Paul! ... it sounds the like the data rate is the big issue ... by the way I was really sorry to see that your side kick was kidnapped, and sorry about the scuffle with the new side kick ... I'm really enjoying your work!
... Richard On 12/2/06, Paul Knight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, Richard, > > I downloaded this onto my mac, brilliant cross fades on the fluffs by > the way and on the whole the video was quite informative, so that's > why I get acid indigestion, ha! Anyway more to the point, I took the > file and did a 'movie to ipod' convert in quicktime pro, and it came > out with no loss of quality but i did come out about 0.9mb larger. > My method is save your original edit in a way that you can, then open > it up in quicktime pro and movie to ipod, now I don't know if the PC > version does it properly or not, but failing that, you can convert a > movie file in itunes so that it will play on an ipod. > One thing I do know is you need to keep the kbps down below 700, this > is on the ipod specification page at apple, a view of this might help > you also. > > Paul Knight > > > On 2 Dec 2006, at 03:10, Richard (Show) Hall wrote: > > > Update on this ... I moved the .avi file to my mac and did the export, > > again, exactly according to directions (with the exception of data > > rate of > > 800) and still did not work on iPod > > > > ... Richard > > > > On 12/1/06, Richard (Show) Hall <[EMAIL > > PROTECTED]<richard%40richardshow.com>> > wrote: > > > > > > We used Michael Verdi's excellent tutorial > > > > > > http://aliveinbaghdad.pbwiki.com/AIB%20episode%20format > > > > > > for compressing mpeg4 files that will work on the iPod > > > > > > I know his method works, since I put files from alive in baghdad > > on my > > > ipod with no problem. > > > > > > However, we followed the instructions exactly ... using the combined > > > brains of Maureen and I, which is AT LEAST one brain total and we > > checked it > > > twice and the file does the dreaded "won't work on iPod" thing > > and I have to > > > convert it for the iPod to get it to work and that's no fun. > > > > > > There is one difference, and maybe this is it. In Michael's > > tutorial the > > > file is an uncompressed DV file from final cut pro and in our > > case it is an > > > uncompressed .avi file from Premier and we are using quicktime > > pro for the > > > PC, and Michael is using quitime pro for the mac, but all the > > same settings > > > exist on the PC version that he refers to in the tutorial in the > > mac version > > > of quicktime. > > > > > > Oh yeah, the other thing is that we set the data rate to 800 > > rather than > > > 550. > > > > > > For the record, this evil file is presently on blip: > > > > > > > > >http://blip.tv/file/get/Inspiredhealing- > > Episode30TheDigestiveSystemHeartburnSteroidShotsForTenn947.mp4 > > > > > > Maybe someone can tell what is wrong with this file that it won't > > work on > > > my iPod > > > > > > ... thanks ... Richard > > > > > > -- > > > http://richardhhall.org > > > http://richardshow.com > > > > -- > > http://richardhhall.org > > http://richardshow.com > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > -- http://richardhhall.org http://richardshow.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
