Streaming Quicktime... stops at 60%

[AlSinclair]

Hi folks,

I've recently uploaded a quicktime for streaming, but have had reports that the movie stops at around 60%...

I tried this myself, and the first time it completed with no problems, but the second time it stopped dead at 60%. I've since heard that the client finally managed to view the whole clip, but it's a little worrying that it can't be trusted to work properly all the time!

The movie is 4 minutes, 25MB, 320x240 .mov ...

Is the problem likely to be the size of the file? Or the number of people who may be viewing at the same time? Or some other mystery problem?

Any help would be hugely appreciated!

Thanks,

Alistair

[razamalik]

Hi Alistair
i think its the size of your footage mate, i have uploded a 10 minutes quictime movie at 320 x 240 frame size and managed to get it just under 5Mb using Small web movie option in imovie, it plays in almost realtime on 56kb. you can use other CODEC like Canapus procoder for high quality quicktime compression. try with different codecs, for a 4 mins quicktime at 320 x 240 i'd say dont go for any file size bigger than 8mb as alot of people are still on 56kb, and they certainly will have probs downloading a 25 mb file! hope that helps
Raza

[AlSinclair]

Thanks Raza,

I'm trying a smaller export now...

The reason I went for such a bloated file size is that the footage really needs to be at 25fps - I work for a music video editing company and the footage is being uploaded for client approval... The quality of the image is therefore the most important factor.

Having said that, if they can't download the clip...

[StuartV]

25Mb for 4 minutes is somewhat excessive!

I've just converted an avi to wmv at 290kbs which is over 4 mins long and ended up with a 9.1Mb file (constant bit rate conversion).

As you're Mac based (I think) encoding to wmv may not be an option (I think the encoder is only available for windows).

Also 320 x 240 suggests you are using NTSC source, if it is PAL then a more normal size would be 352 x 288.

Stuart

[AlSinclair]

Hello again, and thanks.

Yup, I'm Mac-based so the wmv route isn't really an option. I've since switched from Sorenson 2 to Sorenson 3, however, and have got myself down to a very workable 12MB.

Interesting point about the movie size, though - I was just going for a nice round number! I'll give it a crack at the suggested size.