VisionONTV - help us

Yyou need more than eyes to see, You need Vision!

HELP NEEDED

We need Programmers:

Urgent
* Write a play list generator plugin for Miro
* Create an RSS widget to place on friendly websites to promote the channel and inform people about what's on.
* Do web development and help with the backend tools

We need video-makers:
* Include your films, chat shows, docs on Vision On. Encode at high resolution and upload to www.vuze.com

We need researchers:
* Trawl the web to find great videos
* Network with other filmmakers to find new content each week.

Dreams for later
* Create a working open source video editing package
* Subtitle the videos into your language

Email V@undercurrents.org

Video compression for VisiononTV on Macs

How to make a video for vtv on a Macintosh

Final Cut Pro

Set beginning and end point

Select whole project - using selection tool drag a lasso over the whole project

Effects / video filters / video / deinterlace

File / export / using quicktime conversion

Save box - format - mpg4

Options - File format - mpg4 isma (not that one) - choose mpg4 (NOT isma)

Video settings - video format - h.264

Datarate - 1600

Image size - custom

640 x 480 for 4:3

800 x 480 for 16:9

Do not click “preserve aspect ratio”

Framerate - change to current

Keyframes - automatic

Video options - best quality

Audio settings - AAC

Datarate - 128 kbps

Channels - stereo

Output sample rate - 48khz

OK!

Give filename and save

I-movie

File / Export / Quicktime - compress movies for expert settings

Then do as above.

Upload to vuze.com:

Download azureus vuze from http://azureus.sourceforge.net/download.php?os=1

In vuze, click Publish

Publish new content

Follow the instructions

N.B. Very important: Select tags and put the tag "visionontv"

Then we will migrate your film across to visionontv.

How to encode a film for VISIONonTV on a PC using Adobe Premiere

Inside Adobe Premiere 6.5

Export timeline - Movie - Settings - General -

File type: change to Microsoft avi (not DV avi)

Then click next

Video - change compressor to none
Frame size - Change to 640 x 480 for 4:3 or 800 x 480 for 16:9
Pixel aspect ratio choice square pixels

Click next till you get to Special processing
Click modify - tick de-interlace (THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT!!!)

You are ready to go now - you can save this configuration so you don't have to do it each time using the save button.

Be warned! This will make a very large avi file about 5x the size of the original.

Next, bring this avi file into videolan (the open source media player - download from www.videolan.org)

File - Wizard (or Ctrl W)

Check Transcode/Save to file

Click chose - browse to find your AVI file.
Next - Transcode video - pull down select H 264

Bitrate - 2048 kb/s or 1024 for long films

Transcode audio - pull down select mpeg 4 audio

Bitrate - 128 kb/s

Next - Encapsulation format - MP4

Next - Select the file to save to - Choose - browse where to save the file and give it the name you want it be known by.
N.B. Add to the name ".mp4"

Your film will now transcode as an h264 mp4 file format ready to upload.