Wednesday
Jul122006
Encoding Woes
Wednesday, July 12, 2006 at 1:01AM
Spent all day (Tuesday 11/7) recording and editing this weeks screencast, Really pleased with the result. Fired up Batch Processing in FCP to encode the 4 versions of the show in various resolutions. It's a really neat way to finish off the process and a bit of a time saver.
All completed without error so kicked off CyberDuck to upload to Libsyn. Another time consuming process as my upload speed sucks! Have you tried to upload a 130MB file?
File transfer finished, kick off feeder to create the feeds. Libsyn doesn't show the transferred files on the media page but I can see them via FTP. Ah well!
Kick off Rapidweaver to create the site post...
All hunkydory....
Publish the feeds, publish the site...
Test the free version on the site and notice that the opening titles are screwed up..DAMM
View the HD and ED versions and their titles are screwed as well......ARGHHHH
The rest of the file seems OK so I pulled the Free Version from the feed and am re-encoding. It's got another 2 hours to go and it's 12:50am. I think it will need to wait until the morning.
Such is the life of an independant media creator :-(
Update: Well it's the following morning and wouldn't you believe it but the 2nd run is also screwed. Time for some further investigation!
Further Update: It's now 1pm the following afternoon (12/7) and it's still not sorted :-( It takes two hours to encode a single episode and I'm on my 3rd attempt. Rather than encode from within FCP I've exported the episode as a full quality QT file and am using QT Pro to encode. Will know if it's worked in an hour or so, then upload again, then redo the feed.
Yet Another Update: Glad to say that the free version is re-encoded (finally) and has been posted to the feed.
All completed without error so kicked off CyberDuck to upload to Libsyn. Another time consuming process as my upload speed sucks! Have you tried to upload a 130MB file?
File transfer finished, kick off feeder to create the feeds. Libsyn doesn't show the transferred files on the media page but I can see them via FTP. Ah well!
Kick off Rapidweaver to create the site post...
All hunkydory....
Publish the feeds, publish the site...
Test the free version on the site and notice that the opening titles are screwed up..DAMM
View the HD and ED versions and their titles are screwed as well......ARGHHHH
The rest of the file seems OK so I pulled the Free Version from the feed and am re-encoding. It's got another 2 hours to go and it's 12:50am. I think it will need to wait until the morning.
Such is the life of an independant media creator :-(
Update: Well it's the following morning and wouldn't you believe it but the 2nd run is also screwed. Time for some further investigation!
Further Update: It's now 1pm the following afternoon (12/7) and it's still not sorted :-( It takes two hours to encode a single episode and I'm on my 3rd attempt. Rather than encode from within FCP I've exported the episode as a full quality QT file and am using QT Pro to encode. Will know if it's worked in an hour or so, then upload again, then redo the feed.
Yet Another Update: Glad to say that the free version is re-encoded (finally) and has been posted to the feed.
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