Wow Something wrong in Compressor

[Walter Biscardi]

I never use Send to Compressor because it’s always slower than exporting a reference movie. Didn’t know about this issue though.

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[Mark Maness]

[Borjis] “anyone notice when you export from fcp to compressor now (final cut studio 2 with the apple updates and latest quicktime)
that your DVD’s look terrible? (huge macroblocking)

but when you export the timeline to its own file an encode its ok?
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Yes… I did notice this.

I will respond by saying that it is best to export and use compressor to compress your DVD for you. OR….. This is what I started doing… I only need to export a program (one program) and put it on DVD. So, to save time, I started using DVDSP to compress my Quicktimes Single Pass 7.0 mb/s. So far, the images are incredible and fast on my Mac Pro.

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[Mark Maness]

How are your export and compression times?

Mine were terrible. I have to export the entire program to a Quicktime, then I can make my DVD from that in a reasonable amount of time.

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[Sean Oneil]

I’m having problems as well. Compressor can’t figure out the right field dominace for 1080i source.

Seems to have started after the Quicktime 7.2 update.

[Chris Borjis]

[Sean ONeil] “I’m having problems as well. Compressor can’t figure out the right field dominace for 1080i source.”

I’ve noticed this as well but with SD material.
If I capture it then compress it, compressor gets the field order wrong. I had to make a preset and force upper field first to get this to work. Directly from final cut timeline it works fine. Problem only occurs when I drop captured media to a dvd preset.

I realize a lot of people prefer to export timelines first then run compressor because it is faster but my main business is :30 second TV spots and some long form.

TV spots take mere minutes to compress so why create more work for myself? Also a lot of times I have DVD’s due the next day and I would have to come back to work after exporting a long timeline then drop it in compressor. If I sent to compressor for final cut I can rest easy knowing when I come into work the next day its finished though it may have taken longer to do.

[Chris Poisson]

My take on this, sending to Compressor from FCP WAS the best way in terms of quality, as it skipped a step of recompression, which is why it takes longer. I say WAS because this was true in earlier versions, and covered in the 4th section of this excellent article.

https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/compressor_warmouth.html

I have always sent a movie to Compressor like many above, because of the time factor, and tweaking the setting is not that hard, and I get great results.

I will throw out though, As much as I like Compressor, EpisodePro has come a long way, and it’s 5Mb setting is just amazing for SD DVDs, quality is astounding.

Have a wonderful day.