Mpeg2 Program vs Elementary

[Craig Seeman]

There’s lots of good tutorials for Apple Compressor version 3. You could watch those at home. Granted that takes time and they may not pay you for that time.

[Jeff Greenberg]

[Vincent Strader] “I was just exporting a QT movie, but the file was too large.

So I exported the files into 2 parts using the QT Conversion. NTSC 48 KHZ Anamorphic. And the files (2 parts now) were still huge. So I took each one of those files into Compressor.

That’s where I saw all the presets. Some of the video presets have audio properties inside them like the above cited ones. If they have the audio properties inside them, do I still need to drag in an audio preset?
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Just trying to help here.
Program streams have the audio embedded. Elementary streams do not.

DVDs = M2V + separate audio (usually ac3) (elementary streams)

It sounds like you want to make both? Fine.

Don’t use the DV NTSC – you’ve just crushed the video (which will compromised color space and make it look very soft.)

Either use the send to compressor function in FCP or export QuickTime Movie (not conversion.) Yes, it will be a larger file. Keep it. put it on the shelf and label it a ‘digital master’

Use the Compressor DVD settings for your DVD.
Duplicate the MPEG2 entry and change it to a program stream and you’ll have your 2nd file that is identical to your other video, except it’ll have embedded audio.

Best,

Jeff G

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