• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  compression speed from FCP to Compressor

  Posted by George Sloan on January 28, 2011 at 4:31 am

  Hi Folks,

  I just submitted a 30minute ProRes project for down conversion to compressor. Imported from
  a timeline that was captured and edited in 1080i. And sent directly to compressor for mpeg settings.

  i am reading 125:27:03 remaining in the batch monitor. Could that be right…125hours?

  Using FCP7 Intel duo core 2.66mhz

  It need to be quality but I am showing a 7 hour compression time.

  THE QUESTIONS ARE.. is this what i should expect? Is there a way to improve this without losing quality?
  the third (and too late now) question is..Will capturing in ProREs speed up the compression process?

  My sincere thanks for helping me in this. George…. sloanmotion.com

  HERE ARE MY SETTINGS..
  Name: MPEG-2 1 Golden
  Description: for Broadcast/DVD
  File Extension: m2v
  Estimated size: 1.49 GB
  Type: MPEG-2 video elementary stream
  Usage:SD DVD
  Video Encoder
  Format: M2V
  Width: 720
  Height: 480
  Pixel aspect ratio: NTSC CCIR 601/DV
  Crop: None
  Padding: (L: 0, T: 60, R: 0, B: 60)
  Frame rate: 29.97
  Frame Controls On:
  Retiming: (Best) High quality Motion Compensated
  Resize Filter: Linear Filter
  Deinterlace Filter: Best (Motion Compensated)
  Adaptive Details: On
  Antialias: 0
  Detail Level: 0
  Field Output: Same as Source
  Start timecode from source
  Aspect ratio: 4:3
  Field dominance: Automatic:
  Selected Top first
  Average bit rate: 6.6 (Mbps)
  1 Pass VBR enabled
  Maximum bit rate: 7.7 (Mbps)
  High quality
  Best motion estimation
  Closed GOP Size: 15, Structure: IBBP
  DVD Studio Pro meta-data enabled
  BlackWhite Restore
  Black: 0.000
  White: 0.000

  George Sloan replied 15 years, 3 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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• 

  Rafael Amador

  January 28, 2011 at 12:41 pm

  Hi George,
  Stop “Sending to Compressor”.
  Export a self-contained movie and import to Compressor.
  Then use the same setting you’ve been using to make your MPEG-2.
  “Send to Compressor” have a big problem: Even if all your sequence is already rendered, Compressor doesn’t use these render files, but it renders everything again.
  This gets worst when you make a “Double Pass”, because everything needs to be rendered TWICE.
  And the worst of the worst, is when, for example, you make a “Multi-pass” H264. Multi-pass for H264 means THREE passes.
  So, you can cut all the processing time going ‘self-contained”.
  rafael

  http://www.nagavideo.com
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  George Sloan

  January 28, 2011 at 2:16 pm

  Thanks my fiend ,

  I’ll try that .
  George

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