• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Hi… Just a compression Length question

  Posted by Conan Stott on July 27, 2008 at 9:24 am

  Hi there.

  I have a 2008 mac pro, 8 core, 6 gig ram.. and I am compressing a 22.5 minute HDV Apple Pro Res HQ project to DVD Best Settings…. the time it take is usually between 3 – 4 hours… is this normal or could I have a setting wrong somewhere? I export directly to compressor from FCP.

  Thank you

  Conan

  Michael Sacci replied 17 years, 9 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Michael Sacci

  July 27, 2008 at 6:31 pm

  It always takes longer to encode when exporting from the sequence to Compressor (But I think you get better results).

  Also there are a lot of settings that give you a better result but takes longer to encode. If you are not trying to jam a bunch of videos onto a DVD and you can have a high bitrate at or above 6 Mbps I would recommend trying CBR encoding it should cut encoding time in at least half and I bet it will even look better.

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