A client asked me to output project as WebM or HEVC. What is the best way to do it ?
FCP7 (neither FCPX , Compressor ) don't support these formats yet. By the way, someone can tell me if Apple will (and when) support
WebM and HEVC?
I tried using MPEG Streamclip, but as FCP, it doesn't export as WebM and HEVC. I know firefogg, but I can't install firefox here.
What third-party software I could use to do this?
Thank you.
Jennifer
Mac Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.5)
Jennifer Sandis wrote:
A client asked me to output project as WebM or HEVC. What is the best way to do it ?
FCP7 (neither FCPX , Compressor ) don't support these formats yet. By the way, someone can tell me if Apple will (and when) support
WebM and HEVC?
I bet the answer concerning WebM is "never"; for HEVC, maybe later.
You will probably need some program that can convert from quicktime or mpeg4 to these formats.
Had to look those up on the old inter webs. Cool stuff but there are many new codecs and wrappers competing and claiming to the be the übertech that will solve all of tomorrow's ultra high def delivery issues.
We've been dealing with new (or obscure) video codecs for 20 years around here so I'd say you want to ask your client some serious questions about why they think it's important for you to do the transcoding for them. Since they are requesting a new and,as yet, not generally accepted and therefore non-ctandard format, they should have a line on a conversion service to which they can refer you or recommend a software product they like.
See the Compressor forum.
Russ
Yeah, we noticed that she posted the same question in three places. Tedious but you eventually found a way to answer.
VLC, sown, there's not much free software cannot do.
You can compress HEVC or x265 video with Handbrake for the mac using version 0.10.0 on up.
You have my sympathy…
There is a component plugin for Quicktime here: http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/51326/webm-for-quicktime
You will also need: http://www.xiph.org/quicktime/download.html (version 0.1.9 at the top of the list [for Mac OSX])
[they work in yosemite]
After you install these components, they are available to Quicktime 7 Pro (Export > Movie to WebM) (Use Options to set bandwidth, etc. settings)
The export options should also be available in Compressor. (I don't use Compressor, so I cannot tell you for sure.)
Why your client want to compress the videos? the quality will degradation. And the H.265 still very young that you may have problem with palyback.Then you have to find some app to help you convet them, but most app in the market are just fake
Export in a suitable input format for FFMPEG then then you encode in HEVC using FFMPEG with the X265 library as a pre-requisite.
These can easily be installed via home-brew, it does take a significant amount of time to do the encoding though GPU builds of x265 may help.
See
FFMPEG https://ffmpeg.org
x265 http://x265.readthedocs.io/en/default/
Home-brew http://brew.sh
Also Xcode will be a prerequisite for the hombrew install see App Store https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/xcode/id497799835?mt=12
And https://developer.apple.com
These are all well known tools BTW with lots of support available.
Output as WebM or HEVC
