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Compressor doing badly at end of movies
Greetings all,
FCP 5.1.4
Compressor 2.3
Intel-based Mac ProI’m exporting self-contained quicktime movies from FCP, roughly 25 minutes or less in length. Taking these and encoding them in Compressor to mpeg-2s for burning on to a dvd. Using 2-pass VBR Best, 6.6 – 7.8, with Motion Estimation set to best. The problem I’m having is that Compressor does a fine job for most of the encoding, but for the last 20 to 30 seconds of the video does a terrible job. In some videos the subject’s face pixelates, in some the entire screen flashes in and out of a mosaic effect. Some of the videos seem to be fine all the way through. It seems to be random from video to video, but if I repeat the encoding of a certain video, it will come out identically.
HOWEVER, if I take these quicktimes over to an older G5, and run it through the SAME version of Compressor with the SAME settings, they come out fine. What’s going on?? Do I need to upgrade to Compressor 3 to have full compatibility with the Mac Pro? It’s a little frustrating to have to transfer my finals over to the G5 to get a clean compression after investing in the Mac Pro. Sigh. Of course, I’ve been known to do some pretty bone-headed things in my time, so if I’m missing something obvious, feel free to point it out.
Nick
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Anyone?
Nick
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It isn’t working on one machine yet is on another. So something is wrong with that other machine…obviously. But, what? I haven’t seen this issue…and apparently not to many others have either…so it will be difficult to diagnose.
So, it would appear that the Compressor software MIGHT be the culprit. That would be my first suspect. What I would do in a situation like this, would be to reinstall FCS. And since merely trashing things doesn’t grab every small component, this would require a full reinstall of the OS, and FCS, and updates. Yes, a pain. But, that is what I’d do.
Shane
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Well… alright. I’ll make a slot in the month coming up somewhere and go for it. Sigh, a pain indeed – but it makes sense to try it. Thanks for the tip!
Nick
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Just for the record in case anyone is searching through the archives…
I managed to get some time and do a complete erase and reinstall on the system from the ground up, and that seems to have solved it! I haven’t actually authored anything yet to check it on a dvd, but just from previewing an encoded m2v on the mac it looks as if the problem has gone away.
–Nick
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