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  can’t chg Compressor dvd Field Dom setting

  Posted by Paul Dougherty on April 24, 2012 at 11:20 pm

  After not using Compressor with an Avid Quicktime (ntsc out) to make a dvd in a while, I ran into strobing / field dominance problem. I had used the default Best Quality 90 min forgetting what a wise man said on Cow “never let compressor figure out the field order” When it dawned on me to set Field Dominance in the Video Format tab to Bottom* – I couldn’t do it, it was stuck on Automatic and grayed out. Clicking the little gear icon to the right didn’t help. Luckily I stumbled on another older dvd setting where I somehow succeeded in changing Field Dominance to Bottom in the past, used that and problem solved.

  Should this kind of thing come up again, what was I doing wrong? Why couldn’t I change Field Dominance?

  Thanks in advance,

  Paul

  *copied the default Best Quality 90 and tried to make the change on the copy

  Jeff Greenberg replied 14 years, 4 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Jeff Greenberg

  May 1, 2012 at 2:22 am

  You have to have the compressor preset applied to a clip to be able to make changes like that. Just changing the raw preset may not work. Apply, adjust, save and you should be good.

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  Jeff I. Greenberg
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