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Compression Set Up, Can It Be Done?
I have been doing lots of small jobs…mainly on a MacPro but I’m going to be traveling extensively now and I want to know if I can compress this:
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Canon 5D mkII footage converted to Apple Pro Res 422 1920×1080
Edited in FCP with a maximum of 4 video tracks (some clips with filters applied) and 4 audio tracks and a runtime of 10minOn a:
MacBook Pro 15″ 2.8GHz i7 core with a 500GB 7200RPM with 8Gig Ram
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I cannot do it on my old MacBook Pro 2.6GHz Intel Core 2 Duo with 4Gb Ram
Anyone have experience compressing on a MacBook? I want to pick one up to continue to edit from the road but I don’t know the new line will handle something like that.
Any thoughts would HUGELY be appreciated…
Thanks!
Nate
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3 Replies
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Sorry I meant can that be compressed into h.264 854×480 standard setting…
How could I forget to include what I wanted to compress the original footage to?
Anyway, if anyone has any thoughts at all that’d be great.
Huge thanks!
Nate
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Have you looked into the Matrox product line? For towers, they make a PCI card – CompressHD…it’s super fast encoding to h264 and looks great.
For the Laptop…they have the same functionality built into their I/O devices. Cheapest would be an MXO2 mini with Max.
It’s an h264 hardware accelerator, I use it, and love it…it spoils you very quickly.
-Jason
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Hey Jason,
Thanks for noting that. I haven’t looked into the Matrox product line but I’m just looking to be as mobile as I can and still compress while I travel instead of waiting to get back to the office.
That sounds pretty cool to have a hardware based accelerator. I’ll have to look into it. Thanks!
Nate
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