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Export directly to iPad-supported format?

Tony Lorentzen

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I've been trying to make Redcine X export a Quicktime file that I can dump into iTunes and sync onto my iPad without having to do any re-encode, but it has proven to be impossible this far. I have no problem making files exported from Quicktime work natively with iPad so I'm thinking there must be some weird option in the Quicktime export window used in Redcine X that isn't allowing me to get it working?

Any suggestions?
 
the Apple TV 720p preset in Compressor does the job. There's also a make iPad video function in iTunes. Pop out a nice 1080p ProRes master from RedCine for best results.

Noah
 
Apple doesn't tell you this for some reason, but the iPad is capable of playing much higher quality videos then they allow you to import through iTunes. I put a 3 minute 1080p h.264 file that was 500mb on my iPad and it plays perfectly. There are only two apps I know of that can circumvent the video quality limitation and those are AirSharing and GoodReader.

We use DropBox to get our files on all of our devices. GoodReader can actually connect to DropBox and download the files and save them on your iPad.
 
Alexander Alexandrov said:
it is what it is for now, but i heard elgato turbo .h264 hd can be integrated with compressor to speed up transcodes to .h264
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Don't believe everything you hear ;-) I bought the (rather expensive for what it is) Elgato Turbo H264 for that exact reason and I have been very disappointed with it. The basic idea is great and it is pretty fast, but I can't get it to work natively with Compressor - which means I'm left with it's own export dialogue setting, which are 'faulty' at best. Some videos I export with it are simply unplayable, some have glitchy audio sync problems and the settings are just too sparse and not always taken seriously (!)

I have emailed Elgato numerous times - but never received an answer. I do love their EyeTV Hybrid Product with the Turbo as that seems to work well. I just wish they would make a more accessible and better documented SDK.
 
Noah Kadner said:
the Apple TV 720p preset in Compressor does the job. There's also a make iPad video function in iTunes. Pop out a nice 1080p ProRes master from RedCine for best results.

Noah
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The compressor way seems to be the way to go at the moment, but I seriously hope RED is able to fix Redcine so I don't have to transcode multiple times for creating dailies (and spend extra time doing it). The 'make iPad video' in iTunes is not the way to go as it doesn't use all the available cores in my machine for transcoding ;-)
 
Quick update. I just found out there's a new software update for the turbo.264 HD application that seems to have solved some of the sync problems, so I just set up an Applescript to watch a folder and automatically open the Turbo.264 HD application and convert the files to iPad format and put them into iTunes. Works like a charm... sweet!
 
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