• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Compressor vs. Sorenson Squeeze

  Posted by Jason Marraccini on August 14, 2007 at 5:05 pm

  I’ve heard it mentioned in this forum that you can get higher quality results compressing .mpg/.ac3 files for use in DVD Studio Pro with Sorenson than you can with Compressor. Curious to hear people weigh in on this. I’ve got Sorenson Squeeze 4.3 Compression Suite, but typically go straight our of FCP w/ Compressor and into DVDSP.

  What (if anything) can I gain by using Sorenson instead?

  Peter Dewit replied 18 years, 9 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Peter Dewit

  August 14, 2007 at 8:00 pm

  I’ve never done a side by side comparision but I’ve found both programs will usually give you good results. Compressor’s intergration with FCP is nice but it ties up the program. Compressor does a good job of automatically picking up the settings of your sequence from FCP and setting things accordingly. For Sorenson you need to add the extra step of making a QT reference movie but that’s really not much of a hassle. You might also have to set the settings manually more often.

  One thing I’ve found about compressor is it’s 2-pass mpeg2 processing is painfully slow at times as are the frame control rendering times.

  Give Sorenson a try and see how it works for you. Since you’ve got it already it can’t do any harm.

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