[Andrei Popa]

Were you satisfied with the results?

And how did u find the results compare to a Premiere/AF/Compressor conversion?

[Andrei Popa]

The way I did it, is start a custom setting from scratch.

It should work that way too right? Shouldn’t have to duplicate it…

[Andrei Popa]

I’m using CBR and CS5 and Compressor 4

So CS5 is quite old, but Compressor current

[Andrei Popa]

Hi Shane,

Thanks for such a quick reply…

The purpose is converting a 720P independent film to 1080P.

Let’s say due to cost 720P is the preferred shooting method.

But if somebody like a festival will accept only 1080P, would these upscales be good enough.

Is stuff like Red Giant Instant HD worth looking into or would Premiere/AF/Compressor do a job good enough?

Regards

[Andrei Popa]

Hi Christopher,

Yes I do, but for some reason I noticed there is something very weird going on on my computer.

No matter if I use Adobe Media Encoder or Compressor, and I select these high bitrate settings, my computer ignores them and makes a file that is usually 3 to 5mbps…

[Andrei Popa]

Hi Ryan,

I did find that out.

For some reason though there is something very weird going on on my computer.

No matter if I use Adobe Media Encoder or Compressor, and I select these high bitrate settings, my computer ignores them and makes a file that is usually 3 to 5mbps…

[Andrei Popa]

It is indeed very bizzare…

I’ve lost at least 8 hours trying to figure this out…

The thing is, that sometimes it does encode at the proper bitrate, but sometimes it doesn’t…

Basically out of at least 2 dozen encodings 3 were correct and the rest not…

I don’t think it’s the video since, sometimes it encodes it correctly.

Anyway, here is a link to one of the videos, they’re all basically the same content wise, this being the shortest one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5CbYbLQyl4

[Andrei Popa]

Yep…

I’ve been losing hour on end trying any possible combination.

There’s definitely something wrong with my software.

What I don’t understand though is why both AMC and Compressor exhibit the same behavior, if it was only one of them ok, but both… that’s extra odd..

I actually tried it on 2 different OSX’s (Snow Leopard and Mountain Lion, have 2 drives with 2 systems) and still the same…

[Andrei Popa]

Ok,

Now I know why I did it and can’t duplicate it or presets I saved do not work.

I did what you said, it worked once.

When I tried to do it again it did not work….

Meaning it was a low bitrate (like 3k) although limit said 20k…

So for some reason neither AMC or Compressor seem to “load” the presets, or make the bitrate changes specified in a custom setting…

So the bitrate appears high in the setting, but it’s not having any effect with the actual encoding…

[Andrei Popa]

Hi Ivan,

I know what you are saying, I managed to do it, but I can’t duplicate it…

I did so many variations, and although I saved the good ones (or I thought so), it doesn’t seem to work…

I did it as a MOV file.

But now if I select the MOV file and the H264 container, I don’t get the level & bitrate options…

And I’m using custom presets, if I select MOV it just gives me PAL and NTSC presets…

Here is a screen shot of how I’m not getting the level and bitrate options…

https://postimg.org/image/819s1v52b/

When I did the proper file, if I remember correctly it was MOV H264 but I was getting the level/bitrate options