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Please help, I’m covering a Conference – COMPRESSOR PROBLEM
Hello friends,
I’m scheduled to cover a 4 day conference of about 100 participants. For the first time I plan to document the key events of and make the DVDs of about 300 copies available to be bought by those that came to the conference during the conference period (preferable few hours after each topic or event is completed).
After recording the topics in my Sony DC-VX200 3CCD Camera, I can easily download the clip to my G4 editing suit with FCP-4. I can quickly put in few texts and have it ready for DVD SP4 in y system. But to do this I have been going to compressor first for encoding and using 2 pass High variable rate
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to get any speed out of dvdsp or compressor, you need a new computer-thats all that will fix that.
If I had your constarints, I might consider buying a stand alone dvd recorder, do your set up , and play out the timeline to it. The menu and settings aren’t as nice, but it will be radically quicker -
Go with the lower bit rate settings or get a DVD Recorder instead of creating the nice menus. A G4 running compressor is just going to be very slow.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.comDirector, “The Rough Cut”
https://www.theroughcutmovie.comNow Posting “Good Eats” in HD for the Food Network
“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters
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Thanks very much guys.
The project is coming up in July. I will try to see if I can save up some money and buy a G5. Also I will go with my stand alone DVD burner as a back up.
Thanks again.
Okeoma
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If this is going to be a regular deal for you, you may also want to look at hardware based realtime MPEG-2 encoders.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.comDirector, “The Rough Cut”
https://www.theroughcutmovie.comNow Posting “Good Eats” in HD for the Food Network
“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters
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If this is going to be a regular deal for you, you may also want to look at hardware based realtime MPEG-2 encoders.
Walter,
Yes this will be a regular deal for me. can you give a lead on the hardware based realtime MPEG-2 encoders?Thanks.
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Can’t you just export the project as a QT reference( not a self contained movie) and drop that into DVD SP and burn it? that would allow the text or anything else you need.
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I too have this problem from time to time, so here’s my work-round. Play out the video in FCP through firewire to my Pioneer HD recorder and record onto a RW DVD disc. After finalising in the Pioneer, put the disc in my 1.5Ghz PowerBook and use MPEG Streamclip to demux the VOBs into video and audio streams. Insert into DVD Studio Pro and create the final DVD. The initial compression on the Pioneer is in real time and the quality is very good for my needs.
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Ian,
Your suggesting is very interesting. How long does the whole process take you? The key thing here is TIME. I will also like to try Jbrad2’s suggestion and then compare. I still have a little time before the event date in July. This is why I do appreciate all the comments and help. I also know that others in this business may benefit from this discussion too.
Thanks.
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Compressing the output in the Pioneer DVR 530 is done in real time, so a 1hr video takes 1hr to compress. When you put the finalised DVD in your Mac and use MPEG Streamclip, it usually takes only a few minutes to demux the VOBs into separate streams. From there you can build your final DVD in DVD SP. In terms of timesaving, this method saves a huge amount of time, compared to using Compressor on the Mac, and the quality is very good.
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[Ian Wilson] “Compressing the output in the Pioneer DVR 530 is done in real time, so a 1hr video takes 1hr to compress. When you put the finalised DVD in your Mac and use MPEG Streamclip, it usually takes only a few minutes to demux the VOBs into separate streams. From there you can build your final DVD in DVD SP. In terms of timesaving, this method saves a huge amount of time, compared to using Compressor on the Mac, and the quality is very good.”
That’s a really clever idea and it sounds like it should work great. However, I will say that the quality of the DVD recorders really doesn’t come close to compression programs. I have had two Philips DVD Recorders now and while they’re great for window burns, client approval copies and even home movie transfers, the quality does not compare to just about any compression programe I’ve used. For what it does, they’re great and I’ll be be this is going to be a great solution for this type of work.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.comDirector, “The Rough Cut”
https://www.theroughcutmovie.comNow Posting “Good Eats” in HD for the Food Network
“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters
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