Awesome!

Thank you for sharing ...
We know the compressor is also used in Final Cut Express and Quick Time Pro but I can't find it in the Applications folder ...

Precise and to the point. Thank you.

hey! nice tutorial! :] do u think its also relevant to, lets say, Premiere Pro encoder?

Great stuff Ed! Would these same settings be good for motion graphics pieces?

just curious to know why we should change the key frames to 30 instead of 24? If i shoot at 24fps, shouldn't I keep the frames at 24 as opposed to 30?

Thank you soooooo much for posting this. I do have the same question as above, if I shoot at 24fps, should I keep 24 instead of thirty?

Thanks again for posting.

Why audio 44.1, if original content is 48?

Very helpful. Thanks

no joke... i'm sure everyone on vimeo would like to see this vid...

Nice guide ;) This sure will help lots of people :D

Thank you so much. You really did save me a world of headache and experimentation for future vimeo uploads.

Is there some key things i should change for SD?

This is great.. Now I won't have to keep telling people how to do this. Thanks for the great tutorial Ed.

Sorry for my english. Well, isn't 5mb/s too high? I've downloaded some 800 kb/s movies with awsome quality. But not even with 3 mb/s i could get that quality, using a Canon XL H1. Dont know why, I've used compressor, quicktime PRo and Mpeg streamclip, none of then brought the quality i was expecting. Does vimeo reduce the bit rate after the upload? Because i`m in Brazil and here internet is only 20mb/s tops, the usual speed is 4 mb/s, so no real time playing.

Thank you!

Thank you

Brilliant! Very well done instructional video.

Does anybody have a video like this for standard DV material (SD) or is that just a simple matter of changing the pixel aspect ratio?

One thing missing:

When you are setting the quality settings you make no attempt to change (or even show) the temporal quality settings (which I can only presume you leave on 'medium' ?).

Beside that, a great tutorial.

very well done. I didnt know about the droplet thats cool.

In my experiments 5000kbits is way to large, I have found 1400 to produce great quality and small file sizes. flashwebsitez.com/stream6.html

Great help! Ed- What did you use to create this video tutorial - screen captures and circle highlights? I used Camtasia in PC world - and need MAC resource. Thanks!

Thanks for producing this! This was extremely helpful.

Very helpful tutorial.

Do I choose a frame rate of "current" if I shot the original footage in 30p? I thought vimeo doesn't support 30p hd? When I upload in 30p it is noticeably choppy. When I compress my 30p at 24p (Imovie) it is also choppy. Please help!

wow thanks for this, man.

You rock! I was trying to play with compressor to figure out the settings and failed miserably! Thank You so much!!!

Thanks, Ed. Am I correct that it isn't a fast rip? I normally export using Compressor set to mpeg-4 but get complaints that my videos stutter on playback, especially on YouTube and Facebook.

Your compression seems to takes the computer longer to execute. Is this a slow process for you too, or am I forgetting a crucial setting?

Thanks a lot Ed.

Why is it necessary to enable frame controls? That is the one thing I don't get on this excellent tutorial. Also, if you're shooting in 29.97, why would you change it to 30 as you did in the tutorial?
Steve

Ed,

Thanks for the info.

Is there a similar tutorial for a 60i workflow? I've been playing with several different workflows over the past several days but can't seem to nail it.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you, Ed.

Trey

thx man. will this work good with youtube as well?

thx a lot man so helpful!

Thanks. I needed that info

wery nice :D
Is it the same settings for us using PAL 25p camera?

Why would my droplet still be popping up?

Help! I am so confused! I am exporting my Final Cut Pro sequence using compressor and utilizing all of Vimeo's recommended presets, (H.264 etc). However, when I submit it in Compressor the processing time come sup as 40 hours!!!! How can that be? BTW, the movie is only 5 minutes long!!! What am I doing wrong? Any help is greatly appreciated!

Thank you for posting this video

Thank you for this tutorial!
Help me a lot.

i'll try this out.
i've tried exporting from Sony XDCAM EX 1080P25 35 mbps (edited in Final Cut) using the appleTV preset which is also 1280x720 at 5 mbps, but my video is out of sync on vimeo and it seems vimeo won't make an HD version of it.

as amazing as this video is it does make me laugh that it isn't in HD

Not in HD, but still an HD. As in, "Helpful Digression" from editing. I guess I'm content.

thanks!

OMG!!!! This is SO helpful.... thank you so much... you ROCK!!!!!

THX very much.

really handy - thank you.

I'd also like to know if doing SD footage is as simple as changing the output size...or if there are more options to tweak.

Thx for sharing this vid!

hey Ed, thank you for this, this is terrific! Hard to read the manuals to get all this, seeing it live on video as I try it is the best way to grasp this, thanks!
I had some problems after I exported out some video that was at the 16:9 ratio on my computer but then when I put it in a DVD player and used a standard TV I lost the widescreen look! I was wondering if you could give me some help. Many people told me different things but I really was hoping I could be shown. thanks.

Help,,, I'm drowning in tutorials! It seems everyone has another way of setting it up, and I'm realy getting frustrated. Your tutorial is for FCP, I have FCE and I do not see the same windows your working in, is that just for the Pro version? or will this work in FCE also?

This is great!

thanks for this vid man!! i've been searchin/figurin out how the settings to compress this in a while.. i really appreciate you makn this tutorial. THANKS!

Ed, you've helped me massively today. I knew how to convert already but you have just refined it via a few points on this video. Thank you mate

Very easy to follow.
Thank you.

Thank you for taking the time to do this.

Thank you for this, it's a great tutorial. Much better than any of the other ones I have seen.

How long do you find a 5min video to encode? I am finding it to take upwards of an hour on my MacBook Pro.

having a problem, i have my editing done and rendered, shot and imported all footage under 1080f30... i exported to compressor and used the settings explained.. The output file lost the original dimension (meaning it did not appear to have the 16:9 aspect) and when trying to upload to vimeo, i encountered an error.. i must be doing something wrong..?

can't have enough good info,,, thanks

Thank you Thank you Thank you!! This is the type of tutorial I have been searching for! Very well done and my videos look great!

Thank you!

Hi Ed, I have a short question. Am I right that the Key Frames setting has to be changed to 25 instead of 30 for PAL footage?

Thanks Ed. Very clear and easy instructions.

Thanks Ed, great tut.

You saved me so much time!!! Thanks a lot!

Hi Ed. I am still not satisfied with the result of my compressions on vimeo. I bought the new JVC GY-HM100E and just did a video with 720P setting. I compressed it in Compressor out of FCP with the .mov based HD settings, that you suggested, but the result was not satisfying - there were some pulsating parts especially in the dark regions. Then I took the m4v HD settings as they are proposed in Compressor for H.264 and even changed the frame control "on" following your instructions. Could you please look at my video:

vimeo.com/4841323

and tell me if I am doing something wrong. The original footage always looks great, the compressed version also looks good on my desktop but as soon as it is converted in vimeo it looses so much. Other poeple like Michael Fetcher do not seem to have these problems, because the uploaded versions look terrific.

Hoping to get some clarifications and help.