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Compressor in 5.1.1 is fixed
Yesterday I decided to go all out to see exactly what the very best DVD quaility was that I could wring out of my 10-bit timeline. Normally I am in the habit of making concessions to speed on all DVDs except finals going out to the replicator, but, because the weekend had arrived I decided to give Compressor whatever time it needed to do its best job right.
First I exported a QT reference file from the 86-min. 10-bit timeline. That went down in like 20-mins. Surprising fast. Then I brought that file into Compressor and turned it loose using the 90-min Best Quality preset, which was somehow broken in many previous versions of FCP, often yielding reversed fields, blocky fades and dissolves, and very lengthy encoding times. Not anymore…
Compressor indicated that it would take between 10 and 13 hours to compress the project — the etimated times kept shifting, which is typical for Compressor’s 2-pass VBR encoding, which optimizes compression for every shot on the timeline. Believe it or not, I was undaunted by the encoding time. The good news is it ended up taking less than 5 hours.
A little while later, after authoring on a PC (thats another story), and Phew!!!, the best looking video on DVD I’ve ever created. The combination of 10-bit video and the updated Compressor is killer. Whoever said 10-bit is overkill???
DRW
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I can’t get the new ipod preset to work… I’m still on QT 7.0.4 though.
It also looks like I’m having some problems with qmaster.
Anyone who uses compressor with qmaster might be able to answer this: Has the batch monitor changed now so that it doesn’t display the distributed work going on in the qmaster jobs? If this is not the case, then it probably is my render farm broke after the updates.
kk
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So Keith is another one who is not seeing batch jobs in the Batch window. I’ve had this issue since 2.0 and FCP 5.0 and it’s killing me…seems like it might still be a problem with the newer upgrades still.
Keith, how long has this batch problem been gong on?
And David, thanks for the tips this weekend…nice tip on the Hitachi drives. glad to hear Compressor might be living up to the compressor we all wish it would be…
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David,
That’s good to hear, but I’d bet the farm if you did it from 8bit you would not be able to see any difference. Lots of us out here say 10 bit is overkill, and 9 out of 10 time it is. Save your drive space!
Have a wonderful day.
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Well, I don’t know about being fixed… I think it got broke in the last update. Since I have fully updated my software, Compressor doesn’t seem to work for me. Everytime I compress a program for DVD, it plays back realy jerky on most DVD players. But now, if I let DVDSP compress my video, its fine.
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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions
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The batch problem where the “sub-jobs” weren’t dropping down happened only after the update to 5.1.
I did a job on Monday with the H.264 Lan preset and the drop down arrow was working.
When I use the ipod preset, and try to open the compressed clip, Quicktime crashes hard! The computer screen turns nasty shades of green and red.
I have other apps in house that prevent me from going up to 7.1.2 at the moment so I’m stuck at 7.0.4.
Anyone else having success with the ipod preset?
kk
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