Desparate – Two problems using FCP to Compressor to DVDSP

[Timothy Anderson]

Sounds good Kris – thank you – I hope to hear from you and will play with some things this afternoon as well. No, the text is not moving – just still title cards. Unfortunately, however, I am under the restriction of that red text as of right now…

Tim

[Kris Merkel]

Export your text sample as current settings. Open in Compresor and apply your mpg2 settings.

your encoder settings should look something like this

and your frame controls should look something like this

be advised, with similar settings you will be looking at extremely long compression times, but the quality will be much better than what you have been getting.

You will have to adjust your settings accordingly. I would sugest using a 10, 15, 20, or 30 sec clip so you can measure how long the actual encoding time will take.

good luck

[Timothy Anderson]

Hey Kris –

Thanks a bunch for the suggested settings. The only thing I can’t duplicate is the ‘Field Dominance: Top First’ setting because my project dictates a Progressive selection to Compressor.

I did a stand-alone though and noticed a small improvement with your settings though – mostly in the slight drop-shadow behind the red text was a bit cleaner s thank you very much.

Other than that, I think this is the best Compressor can reasonably do. I have a question for you – is this something ‘better’ high-end professional grade DVD replication/encoding can do a lot better from an HD master? I.E. distributed DVDs of a film, etc…?

Tim

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Timothy Anderson] “I have a question for you – is this something ‘better’ high-end professional grade DVD replication/encoding can do a lot better from an HD master? I.E. distributed DVDs of a film, etc…? “

Yes. Compressor is not the best MPEG2 compressor. Hardware is usually better than software. At the very least you should pruchase Bitvice.

There’s also this, but I don’t know anyone that’s tried it.

https://www.cinemacraftusa.com/cinemacraft_encodermp.php

Jeremy

[Timothy Anderson]

Thanks Jeremy –

That’s good to know – and thanks for the info on Cinema Craft – is there any way to demo it?

[Laura Weinstein]

Hey I found this thread because I typed into google a similar problem. I read the thread but I’m still confused….

What was the solution for titles looking low quality when compressed from HD to MPEG2? My titles are even more simple, it’s simply done in final cut and it’s just text. The footage looks okay but the text looks horrible in MPEG is there a way around this?

[Rafael Amador]

Did you set the “better downscaling” in MPGStreamclip?

What kind of stuff are you trying to compress?
rafael

http://www.nagavideo.com

[Laura Weinstein]

Hi, I didn’t use mpegstreamclip I used compressor. The footage was HD apple pro res, I down converted to MPEG2. But I’m not worried about the footage just the titles which look pixelated.