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  Posted by Arty Gold on July 14, 2006 at 10:29 am

  i did all my research and searches on the cow…
  but i can’t seem to find anything on this…
  i am trying to go from fcp 4.5–with my project thru compressor 2
  so i can get it into dvd sp 4

  ok the video i have is one hour and 58 minutes

  so i choose mpeg2 fast encode 120 then i changed the bitrate until it said i could get 160 minutes on a dvd-5

  is the right way to handle this ?
  or am i way off before i start the 6 hour compressing ?

  thanks

  John Fishback replied 19 years, 10 months ago 4 Members · 7 Replies
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  David Roth weiss

  July 14, 2006 at 2:59 pm

  Arty,

  Six hours sounds like a very long time — in my 2.3ghz G5 an 85-min. project takes only 50-mins to encode to MPEG-2 using Compressor. Is your MAC an older slower G4? Are you exporting directly from the timeline? If the answer to the later question is yes, don’t do that, export from the timeline first either to a reference or self-contained movie, then encode using Compressor. This will save you considerable time. Also, the 2-pass encoding was broken and still may be, you should pobably change the prest to one pass before starting your encode. The results are still very good, sometimes better even than the best 2-pass depending on tghe material, and that wil also save time.

  DRW
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  Chris Babbitt

  July 14, 2006 at 5:04 pm

  David,

  I recently upgraded to 5.1 and just tried Compressor 2-pass to encode a 2:17 program. It appears that all the issues I was having with 2-Pass have been resolved. This confirms what I was told by an Apple Rep at NAB. As soon as I have a chance to view the entire DVD, I will post the results.
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  David Roth weiss

  July 14, 2006 at 5:19 pm

  That’s good to know Chris, I am using 5.1.1 now and was kind of hoping that was one of the things that had been fixed.
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  Chris Babbitt

  July 14, 2006 at 5:31 pm

  So far, the extraordinarily long encode times, huge file sizes, and cut-off endings, all issues that I was consistently experiencing before, are all gone. As far as image and motion quality are concerned, I will know better after I view the DVD. But, most definately, they have fixed some things.
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  Chris Babbitt

  July 15, 2006 at 5:24 am

  I viewed the DVD. Everything seems to be ok. Just like it was in Compressor 1.0.
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  Arty Gold

  July 15, 2006 at 11:50 am

  thanks !

  yes i was using compressor right from the time line…

  i’m going to try it the other way now…
  i’ll let you know how it goes
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  John Fishback

  July 16, 2006 at 9:47 pm

  If you’re doing any cropping or filtering, that can affect the encoding time.

  John

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