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  Extremely long h264 compression time

  Posted by Drake Hale on October 7, 2011 at 6:22 pm

  I have an 8 minute video to upload to YouTube and have tried a few of the suggested methods of compression. The file is 8GB ProRes 422 1440X1080. I want it to upload as 1920X1080 h264. When capture the footage to FCP I transfer it to ProRes via firewire but it doesn’t change it to the 1920X1080. In compressor I select H264, restrict rate to 8000, resize to 1920X1080 and de interlace with best settings. I’m left with a 10 hour compression time on a new iMac. Any suggestions on how to speed up the process or better success with different settings for the same file type?

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  Anonymous

  2011 3.2GHz 27″ iMac, Final Cut Studio 2, Adobe CS4

  Jeff Greenberg replied 14 years, 7 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Jeff Greenberg

  October 9, 2011 at 3:30 pm

  It’s the ‘Best” deinterlace settings that is killing you. Turn that back to normal and see how bad the compression time is.

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