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Compressor won’t work – can I export ok through MPEG Streamclip?
Hi,
I have 55 short videos to get out in the next couple of days. They are in Apple ProRes 422. I need to produce Flash, PAL and NTSC (“broadcast quality”) for each of these. Flash is ok – PAL and NTSC I haven’t even started yet.
And here’s the bad news: my compressor is really, really, really busted. I did every fix in this forum and even reinstalled it, but I think I am one of those who might need to reinstall the OS. But I don’t want to do that in the middle of this project!
Here’s my question: I use MPEG Streamclip a lot for transcoding video that I’m bringing IN to Final Cut (I made the ProRes 422 that way), but will it be an OK vehicle for creating PAL and NTSC to export from the HD QT files that I am printing from Final Cut? I know that it’s possible, but it doesn’t seem to be recommended too much here – will I lose quality? Is it a dumb idea?
I know that everyone will say that I should export the PAL and NTSC directly from final cut, but I’m looking for something that can run in the “background” while I continue to churn out QT files from Final Cut in the “foreground.” Obviously, Compressor would be ideal. But oh well.
Thank you all in advance for your advice.
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2 Replies
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You can try adobe media encoder. It will do batch process also.
Sachin Desai
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To reply to my own message – yes MPEG streamclip will work. I successfully batch processed 100+ short videos from HD prores into both NTSC and PAL through Streamclip, and they looked pretty good. I would recommend this to anyone who has chronic Compressor problems like I do (did – now my compressor is fixed but my motion keeps crashing…). I would be interested in understanding why Streamclip is not mentioned much as a Compressor alternative. It seemed to work well.
Cinnamon Kennedy
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