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Am I missing something BASIC here ??
I mainly shoot weddings which pan out in their final form at around 1hr after editing. I need to put them on DVD. I export from CS3 as Microsoft uncompressed avi and follow Aharon’s advice in his DVD; but 9 times out of 10 I get an error and Squeeze 4.5 produces nothing other than the error message which is unhelpful. Not really as easy as 1-2-3! I’m reluctant to buy Procoder ( which many here seem to recommend) having just shelled out for Squeeze.
I have upgraded the drivers and turned Matrox WYSIWYG off. Is there something else I should be checking on please? -
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What does the error message say?
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If you’re already in CS3, you might as well just encode in-suite. Both Premiere/Encore and Squeeze use the same Main Concept MPEG-2 encoder, so you shouldn’t get any quality difference at best.
Ben Waggoner
Principal Video Strategist, Silverlight
Microsoft CorporationCompression Blog: on10.net/blogs/benwagg/
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Thanks Daniel and Ben. . . .
The message, which pops up almost immediately on pressing ‘squeeze’ simply says ‘there was an error compressing the film’ or words to that effect – doesn’t help much!
I should also have said that I need to compress showreels for use on my web site so I really would like to solve this.
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Have you tried using another codec for export like Quicktime Uncompressed or Quicktime MJPEG or PJPEG?
If nothing works then you really should get in touch with Sorenson for support.
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Thanks, Daniel,
I haven’t tried Quicktime uncompressed – maybe I will . . . but the point is it should work with uncompressed avi and doesn’t.
Think I’ll take your advice and try Sorenson again – I must have something incompatibe which is spooking it, I think. -
In my humble opinion, avi is an unreliable file format. Quicktime however is not. If the Quicktime method works, why waste time trying to figure out the avi route?
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