Final Cut / Compressor HD to SD for DVD

[Eric Pautsch]

Yeah…who has 50k laying around. There’s an open source encoder called x264 which Ive been testing against Cinevision and Cinemacraft. Beats or matches them both. In fact I believe Citerion is using it on some of their upcoming releases. Amazing the amount of work and time goes into open source tool from hobbyist.

[Fred Soffa]

Thanks for posting this. With the increasing complexity of all these programs and formats, for the part-time DIY’er these posts can save hours and, well, years added at the end of our lives!

[Andrius Simutis]

CCEMP is under a grand and uses the Compressor interface. That’s not cheap for the hobbyist, but a bargain for a pro.

[Roger Watling]

Hi I’ve been an editor for 35 years but had little to do with exporting file formats.

I’ve edited a 3 minute Promo using the DVCPRO 1080/50 codec, I need this as an SD MPeg2.

I have downscaled this by puttng it on a IMX50 (because that is what we use at work for SD) and have exported through Compressor using the MPeg 2 option. (I’m wroking in the UK on PAL)

This comes out at 445meg. As this is being sent across a domestic upload, any suggestions as to how to reduce the size would be wonderful.

I see that the DVD compressors seem to export as a M2V with separate audio comes out at 121meg

As I say, I’m not new to editing but am a bit ov a novice when it comes to files.

Thanks
Rog

Old editors never die, we simply fade to black

[Michael Sacci]

First never post a new question in a thread. Especially when the thread is close to 18 months old. Nobody but the leaders see it

Then what is the file going to be used for on the other end. Is it for web delivery, editing or a DVD?

If editing you need to keep the file size up, if DVD the audio and video are separate, if for web lower the bitrate.

[Roger Watling]

Sorry, I was in a bit of a panic and thought I was creating a new thread in the FCP section rather than the DVD section and I think I have solved the issue in that the 445 MB was actually OK for what I wanted. I found that previous uploads to transfer sites I’ve done from my PC were not as fast as from my Mac

Sorry

Rog

Old editors never die, we simply fade to black