Michael Yecies

A member of the Philip Greenspun's Homepage community since April 2, 2000

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April 2, 2000, on Producing Streaming Video (and Audio) for the Web:
Just wanted to pipe in with a quick note for now. For those of you who are interested, an Apple G3 or G4 running Final Cut Pro (I got mine for $900; great program so I don't mind supporting the product) is a fully professional grade editor capable of DV straight out of the box. Plug the firewire into the camera and the other end into your box and edit away. With an information transfer speed of 3.4Mb/s onto your hardrive you can get away with almost any hard drive around. Final Cut Pro (FCP) can, once you have stored your video on the hard drive, edit your images and sound with 99 layers of both. Among its many other great features is full support of Photoshop layers, take that Premiere! When you are ready to output you can return to tape, or FCP will give a variety of options to compress your edited material into a QuickTime stream complete with compression that you can then post to your website. FCP has various compression codecs and some images will compress better than others ...