blank / white movies out of compressor

[Daniel Low]

[mark wilkinson] “using a variation of the H264 preset “

How do you vary it?

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[Mark Wilkinson]

just little tweaks. here are the settings:

Audio Encoder
AAC, Stereo (L R), 44.100 kHz
Video Encoder
Format: QT
Width: 854
Height: 480
Pixel aspect ratio: Square
Crop: None
Padding: None
Frame rate: 30
Frame Controls On:
Retiming: (Better) Motion Compensated
Resize Filter: Statistical Prediction
Deinterlace Filter: Better (Motion Adaptive)
Adaptive Details: On
Antialias: 0
Detail Level: 0
Field Output: Progressive
Codec Type: H.264
Multi-pass: On, frame reorder: On
Pixel depth: 24
Spatial quality: 100
Min. Spatial quality: 25
Temporal quality: 50
Min. temporal quality: 25

[Mark Wilkinson]

the other question is, do i have a shot at a better result coming out of compressor than i do out of the QT player ? the end product is a movie file to be played through VLC on an Intel Mac to a projector.

[Daniel Low]

Nothing wrong with those settings, there might be something wrong with your source.

Compressor will always be better than out of QT

__________________________________________________________________
“There’s no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance.”
Steve Ballmer To USA Today: 30 April 2007

“We and Apple are neck and neck and we’re chasing the two
other players,”
Steve Ballmer, referring to Nokia and Research in Motion. October 6th 2009

[Mark Wilkinson]

hmm. strange though because the source looks good on its own and plays fine and it exports fine from the QT player, just not from compressor.

[Daniel Low]

Ok, well I can see nothing wrong with the settings you gave me. Can you preview in compressor? Maybe there’s something else you have applied in compressor which is causing the issue.

__________________________________________________________________
“There’s no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance.”
Steve Ballmer To USA Today: 30 April 2007

“We and Apple are neck and neck and we’re chasing the two
other players,”
Steve Ballmer, referring to Nokia and Research in Motion. October 6th 2009

[Mark Wilkinson]

so i did a few more tests and it looks like when i take the preset for H264 and open up the frame controls, i get the blank results. i tried a bunch of variations with frame controls on ( better, best, etc ) but it seems like anytime they are switched on, i get the blank.

i tried exporting the movie with a few different codecs ( i had been exporting from After Effects with the animation codec ), uncompressed 8 bit will let me get a movie through compressor with the frame controls on, but it looks pretty weak. DV NTSC gets through as well but doesnt look as good as the animation codec. i guess now its a toss up between the Animation codec with no frame controls and the DV codec with them.

[Daniel Low]

Something strange going on with your system that may be very deep routed.

In the mean time try the PhotoJPEG codec at above 75% quality

__________________________________________________________________
“There’s no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance.”
Steve Ballmer To USA Today: 30 April 2007

“We and Apple are neck and neck and we’re chasing the two
other players,”
Steve Ballmer, referring to Nokia and Research in Motion. October 6th 2009

[Mark Wilkinson]

thanks again for your help with this daniel. i think it was something system level, i guess compressor can get tweaked at that level, it stopped submitting batches ( or hanging on them ) so i used this :

https://www.digitalrebellion.com/compressor_repair.htm

and that cleared up everything.