Trying to increase quality on MPEG-2 for DVD, iMac 5k, compressor 3.5.3, os x yosemite

[Craig Seeman]

[Arlin Golden] “There are unpixelated commercial DVDs all over the place!”

Likely not done in Compressor. I suspect Compressor 4.1 is improved. There was a high end plugin for MPEG2 encoder for Compressor that I thought was killed some time back.

CinemaCraft
https://cinemacraft.visiblelight.com/cinema-craft-encoder-MP

It does list Compressor 3, 3.5, 5 but seems to stop at OS 10.7. It’s listed as “out of stock”

$990
https://www.visiblelight.com/cinema-craft-encoder-mp-for-mac.html

[Arlin Golden]

Oh really? I mean the quality is pretty poor throughout, but the pixelation definitely gets worse in certain parts with a lot of motion. How do I add those compression markers you mentioned? Ill give CBR a go as well. Thanks for all your help!

[Craig Seeman]

First try CBR set to 6.5mbps and see how that works.

Placing Compression Markers is easy. It’s in the User Manual. I haven’t used 3.5.3 in some time though. There should be some sort of Add Marker command.

[Craig Seeman]

From the Compressor 3.5 manual.

The Preview window has additional features, including a marker management pop-up menu. The marker management pop-up menu allows you to import chapter lists or manually add chapter (and podcast) markers and compression markers (to improve the compression quality of your media file). You can also view Edit/Cut compression markers that were generated in other applications such as Final Cut Pro. If you are sending a Final Cut Pro project to Compressor, these settings or markers are transferred with your project. These markers are also exported to DVD Studio Pro. See Working with MPEG-2 I-Frames and More About GOPs and Markers for more information.
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• Compression markers: Compression markers are also known as manual compression markers. These are markers you can add to a Final Cut Pro sequence (or in the Compressor Preview window) to indicate when Compressor should generate an MPEG I-frame during compression. See Understanding GOPs and Frame Types for more information on I-frames.
These markers appear as blue in the Preview window timeline and are the type created when you manually add markers using Compressor. You can convert compression markers into chapter markers using the Edit item of the Markers pop-up menu.