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  • Converting with Compressor

    Posted by Bree Adams on September 17, 2009 at 9:02 pm

    I have never used the Compressor program. Please be patient as I am as green as they come.

    I need to convert a 1080 HDV .mov to a 720×480 mpeg. One person needs it in HD and another an mpeg.

    I imported the file into Compressor and exported to MPEG format but I did not see an option to make the frame size smaller so it is very stretched.

    I would appreciate some guidance on doing this correctly.

    Thanks

    Daniel Low replied 16 years, 11 months ago 2 Members · 4 Replies
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  • Daniel Low

    September 18, 2009 at 1:50 pm

    [bree adams] “I need to convert a 1080 HDV .mov to a 720×480 mpeg. One person needs it in HD and another an mpeg”

    720×480 is an SD not HD frame size. MPEG can be either SD or HD.

    MPEG1, MPEG-2 or MPEG-4?

    If it’s MPEG-2 you can’t make the frame size smaller, not in compressor anyway.

    So, HD (High Definition) is a description of something that is larger than SD (HD is usually 1280×720 or 1920×1080) but does not describe what format it’s in. MPEG is refers to a group of standards that can be anything from sub SD to greater than HD

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  • Bree Adams

    September 18, 2009 at 7:00 pm

    Thank you. I did figure out how to convert the files. My struggle is in fact a way to change the frame rate without re creating the entire project.

    One station I work with takes the HD 1080.mov and use the RECODER program to turn it into an MPEG. I assumed they were changing the frame size but maybe not.

    Is there a program that I could have the frame size conversion happen easily?

  • Bree Adams

    September 18, 2009 at 7:10 pm

    I am brain dead. I just realized I can drag the file into After Effects and scale it down as a unit and export. This rain is getting to me.

    Thank you very much.

  • Daniel Low

    September 18, 2009 at 7:27 pm

    Please let us know how you get on.

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