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720p to mpeg2
I’m trying to export a 45 minute 720P DVCPro HD sequence as high quality widescreen mpeg2 using Compressor so I can create a DVD Studio Pro project with this media.
On export, Compressor said it would take over 3 hours so I left it running overnight. This morning I come back in and after running all night long it still has 4 more hours to go= a total of about 16 hours! Because of the DVCPro HD Compression reducing all my media file sizes to less than SD file size, I figured this export would take less time than exporting SD media but clearly not. Anyone else seeing this?
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3 Replies
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Not necessarily don’t think. DV-25 files take as long to render as uncompressed SD files in FCP even with them being 5 times smaller. The HD files aren’t larger file size wise, but there are more pixels in them. So it takes a lot longer to render them I’d think.
That said, Compressor 2 will allow you to connect to a render farm… cool. It’s linear too, to G5 Duals, Half the time rendering with Compressor 2 or so. You can cluster computers on an ethernet network with it.
Jerry
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For 720p to 480p MPEG-2 downconversions, I have found the MainConcept Encoder to be the fastest, highest quality, and most reliable software encoder on the mac.
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Thank you. Definitely checking into both ideas.
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