Sick! I'm watching now. Yall are super fresh for this.

Nik39, is that you? That program looks amazing man. For the people by the people! You gonna make a Mac version?

P.S. I love that your kid interrupted in the session. Always gotta handle that baby biz.

Demon you must have a monster Internet connection. I have a feeling most people won't watch until the half size is uploaded. The full size does look crispy clean though!

Swift wouldnt it load faster if you had made it an flv instead of mp4.

ATTENTION: Smaller Files For Faster Dowload!!!

Watch it in your browser:
www.vjaswift.com

Download Directly
www.vjaswift.com

RTSP Streaming (Use Quicktime, VLC or anything that understands RTSP)
rtsp://streaming.vjaswift.com/streaming.vjaswift.com/fcpSessions-2009-
02-08-720x438.mp4

This is a half resolution file, the clarity won't be as clear but it will stream even on a crappy internet connection. THe RTSP stream will let you skip and seek around very easily without downloading the entire file.

I'm watching in browser. Got QTP so imma download. Good looking man, great info!

No, the only thing that would make it load faster is a smaller file (lower bitrate) or use streaming to eliminate downloading the file and saving to disk, see link above.

Native flash format inside an FLV container is not as clear as H.264 at the same bitrate. H.264 will look better at the same bitrate. This is why the new flash player can work with H.264 in FLV containers. They didn't add support for H.264 in FLV containers because it looks worse. It looks better at equal bitrates.

If I did encode these to FLV, I'd use H.264 in the FLV file, which means basically the same bits in a different container format, and then it wouldn't be iPhone & iPod & AppleTV compatible so I don't see a whole lot of value in using FLV.

2.6 Mbytes per second. Shit downloaded in 10 minutes.

Holy shit puma. That's stellar.

Wow, you must have a real fast line.

MAxing out my lines using downthemall and 10 streams.

(1.6MB/s)

It works on Windows and Mac using the same installer :) You can hook up Windows and Mac computer in any combination to help the encoding process. Add computers on the fly, remove them on the fly. Your choice :)

I want to add Linux support as well, but that is lower priority right now. If anyone wants to help testing send me a PM please.

I wish I had some DVDs to test with. My subscriptions all ran out.

SwiftTube! Looks Great!

Comcast 16Mbps (guaranteed)

Don't you have the iso's or img's

I have all the .iso files on an external USB drive. Shit installs fast

I just did a 10 minute webex with DJ Pyro on how to tag 2,000 music videos with one command. We actually wrote the script and ran it on a bunch of videos. I should have recorded it. Maybe I'll do one by myself and record it.

yeah, just make sure you send the file that has created by DJ Pyro to everyone :)

there's also an iPhone compatible version of the sessions. works over wifi!

thanks for this A-Swift....

much appreciated

Can u show me this how to tag all videos with one command

lol, yeah swift. I'm still doing it wrong. Should've recorded that webex we did.

if you're not a command line kinda guy like pyro, then my methods won't help you. i can show you how to do some stuff but then the first time you need to do it on your own, you'll be lost.

but yes, i tag my entire video library with one single command.

dos yes, unix no.

its the first sunday of the month today and no session is happening.

Booooooo!

damn the month went by super fast...hope the rest do the same and we get the hell outta this recession...thats all you hear.

Yeah, I wanted a Motion, Ableton, and Atomic Parsley class.

good work man!!.. thanks for this!

A-Swift, this is incredible! I just watched the tutorial and it was great, look forward to more. I have no prior video editing and was able to at least start working with FCP express. This is what the community and forums are about.

hey thanks pauly. i actually thought it was a pretty good session too. i'm kinda disappointed we didnt stick to the first sunday of every month like i thought we were gonna do.

i wanted some other guys to take over so it didn't seem like it was the a-swift show too much. but they didn't :-(

You're doing a great job, that's why you should continue doing it :)

and... the first sunday thing didn't work out for some of us

+100

Nik39, great job on that application. Are you going to make it available to the public? If so, any idea when?

Props to Swift and all the people involved in trying to help us all vsl nubies informed.

Sure, but most likely it won't be for free. I have explained in the video why, how much etc ;) When...? I planned to release it October... 2008. So, uhm... well I am still working on it :) Will keep you posted.

Great, keep me posted.

a-swift I have to give you props on your live video set.It's very streamlined and I like the conga remix(the original still gets people movin on it's own)Relating to this thread I think it is generous of you to encourage others by sharing tips and educating with tutorials and setting a professional standard.I think we always need to have cutting edge tools to keep up with entertaining those who still take the time out to support live Djs & Vjs.

hey thanks defcutdon. another session will be coming soon. i was hoping it would be a sony vegas session but since i'll probably be doing the next session, you guys will have to deal with what *i* want to talk about. most likely, we'll do a simple project in apple's Motion. it'll be a topic everyone can get with,... "how to make your dj logo in Motion".

let's hope it comes soon.

I have been messing with motion a little and it seams prety easy until you have to move stuff. I now see how they make the extra video screens and have them moving all of the place. So a class with motion would be the shit...Put me on the list....You are much appreciated A-swift,,did you get that drive installed I saw one last night at best buy and thought humm I might need to upgrade but will wait till I hear how it goes for you.

i actually held off on installing my 500GB drive into my laptop for a couple of reasons.

1.) i changed from external 500GB backup drive to a network share that backs up ALL computers in my house to one network drive. It's 8TB. The first time I upgraded this laptop from 200GB drive to 320GB drive, the restore of my system to the new 320GB drive was really easy since my backup was on a firewire drive. Time machine just reformats the new drive with all the info and everything is exactly how it was before the upgrade, just more space.

I wanted to make sure that time machine was able to restore a complete system from a NETWORK backup to a blank hard drive. I tested this 2 days ago on my non-gig laptop and the network restore to a fresh hard disk worked perfectly. So now I'm ready.

2.) I was saving up pennies for a new video camera. I have the camera now. I need it to shot footage for the new demo. But I had an idea to actually video record the hard drive upgrade. I thought it might be helpful for anyone who wants to upgrade their own hard drive but they are not sure how it's done.

So that's it. The hard drive will probably get upgraded this weekend after the gigs.

I had a question on Streamclip. I have the latest version and did not see an option to export as "Pro Res 422" as recommended by A-swift. I exported mine as FCP Uncompressed 8-bit and for a 4 min video, the file is about 5 gigs. My (newer) Mac has a tough time playing all that. Are there other suggestions for good quality?

A second question: I am only using FCE, thus do not have the handy compressor. I don't feel that quicktime gives the best quality compression for an mp4. Are there any other ways to do this to get high quality?

A-swift - thanks again for this clip. I'll be posting a video edit for some feedback soon.

You need FC Pro/Studio to get the ProRes codec. You can try DV instead of Uncompressed to save some space and add some speed to your previews, but you lose a tad bit of quality

Twizzle is correct. ProRes422 is included with FCP Studio. if you are using the reconnect to media workflow like me, then your edit file codec and quality doesn't really matter. Use whatever codec is fast, like DV. However, I wouldn't recommend DV if you are not using reconnect to media. The DV codec is crap really. Your colors will be crushed through multiple DV encodings.

If you don't have compressor, then I'm going to recommend an uncompressed file out of FCP and use something to encode that to mp4.

great job A-Swift very generous, a true philanthropist..big-up aswift. and Nik39 want to hear you say,"HOW DO YOU EAT YOUR PUDDING IF YOU DON'T EAT YOUR MEAT!!!"lmfao!!!!

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a pink floyd reference nik39. cmon man, you're slippin.

Hm, someone gotta explain please :)

listen to the end of the pink floyd song - another brick in the wall. it'll all be clear after that.

I should had listened closer when my dad was pumping this at home ;)

good call A-swift, Nik39 u have angered the rock gods.....u will be punished accordingly!!!!1

Working on a mini tutorial right now from my hotel room. You guys are going to like this one.

Say Swift I want the PDF files from the last class is there a way I can get them?

yeah there is a link. i'll get it for you. you can hold your own class using them!

Oh you got jokes :)....it would be easier to read than to watch....I haven't had time to mess with FCP these days and as you know if you don't use u lose...