• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Compressor Doing Something Weird to HDV

  Posted by Blue Melnick on February 6, 2009 at 2:30 pm

  Hi All,

  I’m having an issue with compressor converting HDV footage to DVD format. I’m using the “best quality 90 minute” setting in compressor, and submitting to a qmaster cluster (4 instances on 8 core mac pro, 2 instances on unibody MacBook Pro, 1 instance on CoreDuo MacBook Pro).

  The original footage is crisp, but when it comes out of compressor, in places there is some serious pixelation… I’m not really sure how else to describe it, so I’ve loaded some sample footage here:
  https://idisk.mac.com/blue.melnick-Public?view=web

  The BeforeCompressor.mp4 is HDV converted…. its not the best conversion, but you’ll be able to see that there is no pixelation really

  The AfterCompressor.mov is a screen capture of the same clip in DVD Studio Pro…. It looks basically the same when I simulate the DVD and when I burn the DVD.

  Any idea how I can fix this? Is there a setting that I’m missing in compressor before I submit… is this a result of qmaster putting pieces back together?

  Thanks as always in advance for your help!

  Blue

  Blue Melnick replied 17 years, 3 months ago 1 Member · 1 Reply
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  Blue Melnick

  February 7, 2009 at 6:31 am

  I tried a new approach this afternoon to this problem…. I converted the HDV footage to Pro Res 422HQ using compressor…. then I used compressor to convert to DVD 90 Minute Best Quality.

  Exact same results.

  I’m totally at a loss as the original footage has nothing like this in it.

  Anybody??

  Frustrated with my macs today!
  Blue

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