compression speed from FCP to Compressor

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compression speed from FCP to Compressor

Posted by George Sloan on January 28, 2011 at 4:31 am

Hi Folks,

I just submitted a 30minute ProRes project for down conversion to compressor. Imported from
a timeline that was captured and edited in 1080i. And sent directly to compressor for mpeg settings.

i am reading 125:27:03 remaining in the batch monitor. Could that be right…125hours?

Using FCP7 Intel duo core 2.66mhz

It need to be quality but I am showing a 7 hour compression time.

THE QUESTIONS ARE.. is this what i should expect? Is there a way to improve this without losing quality?
the third (and too late now) question is..Will capturing in ProREs speed up the compression process?

My sincere thanks for helping me in this. George…. sloanmotion.com

HERE ARE MY SETTINGS..
Name: MPEG-2 1 Golden
Description: for Broadcast/DVD
File Extension: m2v
Estimated size: 1.49 GB
Type: MPEG-2 video elementary stream
Usage:SD DVD
Video Encoder
Format: M2V
Width: 720
Height: 480
Pixel aspect ratio: NTSC CCIR 601/DV
Crop: None
Padding: (L: 0, T: 60, R: 0, B: 60)
Frame rate: 29.97
Frame Controls On:
Retiming: (Best) High quality Motion Compensated
Resize Filter: Linear Filter
Deinterlace Filter: Best (Motion Compensated)
Adaptive Details: On
Antialias: 0
Detail Level: 0
Field Output: Same as Source
Start timecode from source
Aspect ratio: 4:3
Field dominance: Automatic:
Selected Top first
Average bit rate: 6.6 (Mbps)
1 Pass VBR enabled
Maximum bit rate: 7.7 (Mbps)
High quality
Best motion estimation
Closed GOP Size: 15, Structure: IBBP
DVD Studio Pro meta-data enabled
BlackWhite Restore
Black: 0.000
White: 0.000

George Sloan replied 15 years, 3 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
2 Replies

Rafael Amador
January 28, 2011 at 12:41 pm

Hi George,
Stop “Sending to Compressor”.
Export a self-contained movie and import to Compressor.
Then use the same setting you’ve been using to make your MPEG-2.
“Send to Compressor” have a big problem: Even if all your sequence is already rendered, Compressor doesn’t use these render files, but it renders everything again.
This gets worst when you make a “Double Pass”, because everything needs to be rendered TWICE.
And the worst of the worst, is when, for example, you make a “Multi-pass” H264. Multi-pass for H264 means THREE passes.
So, you can cut all the processing time going ‘self-contained”.
rafael

http://www.nagavideo.com
George Sloan
January 28, 2011 at 2:16 pm

Thanks my fiend ,

I’ll try that .
George

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