Compressor 2 Standards Conversion

[Graeme Nattress]

I converted a small, 8 second clip via my conversion from NTSC to PAL and via compressor 2. In C2, that small clip took 35 minutes to render, for just a plain DV NTSC to PAL conversion. The quality was great, but still introduced the motion blur that a full optical flow simulation should not, so I don’t know exactly what they’re doing in there, other than it’s as slow as hell. My conversion took just 1 minute, and that’s on a Dual 2ghz G5, so you can see that C2 is very slow indeed.

Then I dropped the quality settings, and started getting unnacceptable conversions from C2. I’d get alternatiing frames of blurry and sharp when I lowered the de-interlace quality, and I’d get strobey motion on lowering the temporal quality.

Overall, I’d say to Apple, 10 points for quality, but -100 for speed.

Graeme

– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP

[Tunaking]

Did a pretty decent NTSC to PAL conversion. You need to futz with the frame conversion settings to get the quality (don’t use the preset). Graeme is correct, it is pretty slow. Definitely helps if you can cluster render it.

[Tunaking]

Did a pretty decent NTSC to PAL conversion. You need to futz with the frame conversion settings to get the quality (don’t use the preset). Graeme is correct, it is pretty slow. Definitely helps if you can cluster render it.

[Stuart Simpson]

Thanks for the thoughts guys. I’m perfectly willing to wait paitently for a conversion if it gets rid of the blur, but not if there’s no advantage over Graeme’s filter then my response is “meh.”

Anybody done any direct compressor 1 vs compressor 2 comparisons yet?

-Simmie
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