[Andrew Saliga]

Anne,

Did you happen to find a solution? From what you’re saying, I’m having the same issue.

I did notice that the issue occurs when using the “Edit to Tape” feature, but not when playing back from the timeline and recording directly to tape.

Here is the COW thread I started, which explains my problem in more detail.

https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/8/1018502

[Andrew Saliga]

Unfortunately we don’t have house sync.

Under my Kona control panel, my genlock is currently set to Freerun.

I just don’t know why I’m having this issue now. I run stuff to tape every week and never an issue before…

[Andrew Saliga]

Same problem here too.

More detailed post on this COW thread I started.

https://snipurl.com/a1chy

[Andrew Saliga]

“you are wasting bits as there is a limit to how much information each pixel needs”

Is that the peak bitrate? I thought I had read somewhere there is a peak bitrate one is able to reach on codecs.

I thought that was high. Aren’t DVDs generally 7-8Mbps?

The content isn’t too difficult. There are two shots with trees in the background. One is fairly wide and some leaves are moving. There is a transition that has sort of a motion tile effect with transparency to reveal the next shot. There is text of a website on the whole spot, and some animated text scattered throughout. There are also waving flags in the video, but other than that it’s people walking.

[Andrew Saliga]

In typical client style, they throw words around not knowing what they mean. By high res, I think they mean they want something that looks good. (file size is not an issue) I think they are releasing it to the press. Why they want WMVs I’m not exactly sure. We already delivered QTs to the broadcasters and the spots were aired weeks ago.

So here is my workflow. I handle just about all the compression jobs around here and run most of them through Compressor and some through Sorenson. We just purchased Flip4MAc to allow WMV export from Compressor.

The file I’m working with is was shot on a RED, then the 4K footage was brought into FCP at 2K. The final edit was exported from FCP at ProRes422 HQ (720×486). It’s a 30 second spot and is 286.9MB when exported as ProRes422HQ.

I brought that file into Compressor and tried several settings. My final settings were:

-Export Using: WMV 9 Advanced
-2 pass CBR
-Quality 100
-20,000kbps
-Size and Rate: Current (I kept it at 720×486 and 29.97)

The audio settings aren’t as important, but here is what I used.

-2 pass CBR
-192kbps
-44.1 Stereo
-24 bit

Just for kicks I exported the same video with these exact settings, only changing the bitrate to 99,999kbps. I figured that’d be ridiculous of a number to get me a noticeable file size difference, but nothing. Both came out at 48.7MB.

[Andrew Saliga]

I have a client asking for some high res WMVs. What settings would you suggest? I can’t get anything that looks close to what a QT codec can achieve. I’ve also noticed that there seems to be a peak bitrate, because after increasing it to a certain point I don’t get any change in file size or quality. Anyone know what the peak bitrate is for a WMV? And does anyone have any workflow tips for creating high quality WMVs for clients who ask for them?