• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  compressor speed … searched

  Posted by Paul Boyer on July 23, 2006 at 12:27 am

  I’ve just finished searching the archives, so if I’ve missed this and it’s been addressed, as I’m sure it has, I apologize. I’m outputting a 90 min movie to mp2 and using what I think are the quickest settings for compressor, it’s taking 20 hours. I’m using:
  Fastest encode 90 min 16:9
  Change setting to 1 pass from 1 pass VBR
  and pretty much leave the rest as is.
  How far from reality am I? The old QT would do 90 mins in about 4x real time, what have I done wrong to slow things down … even after upgrading my maching
  2gig dual 6 gig ram …

  HD Production/Post
  Varicam
  1200 Firewire & 1080i cards installed
  All DVCAM & Mini DV
  Pansonic 100a
  sony pd150’s
  Arri srII (16mm) Arri III (35mm) vp’s & other lenses. Time lapse mitchells … all in house

  Jerry Hofmann replied 19 years, 9 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  Jerry Hofmann

  July 23, 2006 at 2:01 pm

  What is the source video? HD? DV? HDV? or?

  Jerry
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  Paul Boyer

  July 23, 2006 at 4:52 pm

  1080 dvcproHD
  Thank you
  pb
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  Jerry Hofmann

  July 24, 2006 at 7:45 pm

  Sure sounds like it should be faster then… HDV can take this long, but DVCPRO100 codecs should be fairly fast actually. Might be worth reading my article in the current issue of the COW mag… It’s about “upgrading”- how to do it.

  If you didn’t perform a really clean install of Tiger when you went to that sofware… it’s time I’ll bet.

  Jerry

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