Below is one of two promotional videos I made for the Gladstone Hotel. I actually shot it back in the spring but then I got busy working on Inside The Haiti Earthquake, so I’ve only had time to finish it now.
Music was courtesy of Gentlemen Reg.
Thanks to Jeremy Vandermeij for providing all the resources necessary (people, locations, exhibits) to produce this video.
Gear:
Canon Rebel T2i
Tokina Wide 11-16mm lens f 2.8
Manfrotto 558B Monopod
After a few days of headaches, I’ve discovered that using Compressor for making h.264 videos to upload to a Flash Media Server isn’t really the smartest idea. However, short of shelling out the $600 or so to buy Sorenson Squeeze or Episode Pro, I’m stuck with it for now, so there.
I think I’ve finally come up with a Flash Media Server Compressor Setting, feel free to try it out and let me know if it works for you.
Here are my notes:
You have to set “streaming” to none. “Fast Start” is good when you are leaving this video as a Quicktime, but on a flash media server, “Compressed Fast Start” won’t work at all, and “Fast Start” only works for me some of the time.
If you are “copying over” files, delete the originals before uploading the new files (the ones with the same file name) onto your server.