HOW TO PREPARE THE VIDEO (optional)
This section is designed to show one of your performances, and it is optional.We are aware of the fact that a good video clip is expensive to produce, and therefore the available video clips are either low quality for professional standards or home video quality, and you have to take into consideration if you want to include a video clip as such, when the rest of "my MDP" will be of a much better quality. If you do not count with a professional production, but you do have an acceptable quality video of any of your performances, that will be enough to included. A possible alternative is to send 16 to 24 additional good quality photographs, and request that Virtual Music creates an "Animated Video Clip". this would be with transitions and special effects, and even if do show a regular performance, if the additional photographs are a sequence of shots of the same performance, that could make the trick. This service has an additional cost of $25.00 USD if you requested at the moment to place the order of "my MDP". If you request it after to place the order (before "my MDP" has been produced), will have to be an add-on and the cost will be $50.00 USD.
If you do not upload a standard Video Clip and you do not request Virtual Music to create an "Animated Video Clip", the "Video Clip" section on "my MDP" will be empty an with the legend: "At the time to produce "my MDP", the Artist did not have available a Video Clip".
If you have a Digital Video Clip that you consider worthy to include in "my MDP", and you are willing to spend $29.95 USD to compress it, here is a good way to do it:
(If you do not have the QuickTime-Pro version 7 or higher, you can download the QuickTime 7 player only, for "free", once you download it and install it, upgrade to the "Pro" version for $29.95 USD. The free player (for Mac) can be found at: http://www.apple.com/quicktime/ ; the free player (for Windows) can be found at: http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/win.html).
1.) Starting from a "Digital Video Clip", in your computer, open your file with the application QuickTime 7 (or higher), version Pro.
Once the file is open, from the menu bar choose: "File", and from there choose: "Export", as shown in Figure (0).
Figure (0)
It will open a window: "Save exported file as...", from this window, choose on the lower section "Export": "Movie to QuickTime Movie", and click the button on the right: "Options...", as shown in Figure (1).
Figure (1)
It will open another small window: "Movie Settings" and check mark: "Video" & "Sound" only, as shown in Figure (2).
Figure (2)
2.) Movie Settings.
Sound.
Click on the button: "Settings". It will open another window: "Sound Settings", as shown in Figure (3),
Figure (3)
then make the following selections, as shown in Figure (4):
Figure (4)
a) Format: "Apple Lossless"
b) Channels: "Stereo (L R)"
c) Rate: "44.100 kHz"
and click: "OK"
Video.
Click on the button: "Size", as shown in Figure (5).
Figure (5)
It will open a small window: "Export Size Settings", as shown in Figure (6).
Figure (6)
Choose the lower radio button: "Use custom size" and type:
a) Width: 640 (for NTSC) or 720 (for PAL)
b) Height: 480 (for NTSC) or 540 (for PAL)
and click "OK"
Back on the window: "Movie Settings", click on the upper button (of the Video section): "Settings...", as shown in Figure (7),
Figure (7)
It will open a new window: "Standard Video Compression Settings", as shown in Figure (8).
Figure (8)
From this window make the following selections:
a) Compression Type: H.264
from the section: "Motion", select:
a) Frame Rate: "15 fps"
b) Key Frames: "Automatic"
c) Frame Reordering: "Check Mark"
from the section: "Compressor", select:
a) Quality: "High" (scroll the bar to your right, until it be above "High")
b) Encoding: Faster Encode (Single-pass)
from the section: "Data Rate", select:
a) Data Rate: "Automatic"
and click: "OK"
It will close the window, and back to the "Movie Settings" window, confirm all the video and sound parameters, as shown in Figure (9)
Figure (9)
and click "OK". It will close the window, and back on the window: "Save exported file as...", as shown in Figure (10),
Figure (10)
on the upper mid section of the window, type the name of the file in the "Save As: "myMDPVideo.mov"; below there, choose where do you want to save the file, and click: "Save".
It will start to compress. The time that will take this process will depend on the time duration of your original file, and how fast is your computer's microprocessor (e.g. a DV file of 4 minutes with a microprocessor of 1.4 GHz will do it in approximately 20 to 25 minutes). It will create a file around 64 Mb.
Because the "Video Clip" is only one file, it is not necessary to compress it.
VERY IMPORTANT NOTE:
In any case the Video Clip file can not exceeds 80 Mb. If you try to load a bigger file, at the end of the upload it's going to mark an error, and the server will erase the file. If you have problems with issue, please contact us before to intent the uploading. videoupload@virtuals.us
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