Advice required

[fh1805]

I have, today, jumped into the 21st Century and bought myself a smartphone: a Samsung GT-S7500 B)/> .

I would like to try "Publishing" one of my PTE sequences into a format that will playback on this device. I have looked at the options available in v7.5 under Publish > Video for Mobile devices. These are all for either iDevices or for Tablets. My Samsung is neither an iAnything nor a tablet. It's a simple smartphone (Ok, to me, right now, that should be complex smartphone :unsure:/> ).

Can anyone guide me as to which option(s) would be suitable? And will I need to download an app to do the playback? If so, which one? The device is an Android-based unit.

regards,

Peter

[Ken Cox]

Peter

my kids have iphone's and i make a file for them - it is a mp4 file -- talked with a computer consultant geek the other night and remarked that the files i have put up on facebook are sharp as a tack on his phone --

so i would select one of the selections in the choices and try it

btw i dont have a smart phone #4 grandchild said " poppy you couldn't figger it out " ))))))

Tom has got all the toys and he will likely fix you up

ken

[davegee]

Look for spec of said phone - it will probably tell you which flavour of video file it will play?

DG

P.S. From user manual:

Videos

Learn to use the video player to play various kinds of

videos. The video player supports the following file formats:

3gp,mp4, webm (Codec: MPEG4, H.263, H.264, VP8).

●● Some file formats are not supported depending on

the software of the device.

●● If the file size exceeds the available memory, an error

can occur when you open files.

●● Playback quality may vary by content type.

●● Some files may not play properly depending on how

they are encoded.

1 In Idle mode, open the application list and select Videos.

[fh1805]

Having now tracked down the technical specs for this device by using Google (there was almost no useful information with it in the box!) I have successfully created video files and copied them from the PC to the device. I used PTE v7.5 as follows:

- With no change to the existing PTE project, I chose "Publish > Video for Mobile Devices"

- From the "Device" drop down menu I chose "iPhone 4, 4S"

- I changed the Video Width and Height to 480 and 270 respectively (the two sequences I tried this on were both 16:9 1920x1080 originals; the native resolution of the device is 480x320)

- I left all other settings at their default, as-shipped, values

PTE rendered a 3 minute sequence involving heavy animation (Rubik's Cube) in 42 seconds and an 8 minute sequence involving 19 video clips as well as still and animated images (Tocketts Mill) in under 2 minutes. The output quality of both sound and image was quite acceptable given the obvious limitations of the playback device.

regards,

Peter