Andy Beach
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not to schill my own book, but i did just have a book on compression published by Peachpit called Real World Video Compression. I think the cheapest price on its on Amazon right now:
Brian’s Ripple Training is great by the way – if you are specifically using Compressor, I suggest trying it out.
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Not on the Mac, but my company inlet technologies (inlethd.com) has a tool for analyzing video files named Semaphore. Its only $995 – cheap when you compare it to the $10k+ competitors. FWIW, it runs great in boot camp and several of us use it this way.
Semaphore – https://www.inlethd.com/encoding/19/17/Semaphore/
There is a fully functioning 15 day free trial available, so if you just need this as a one off test, you may not have to by it at all.
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Hi Alex –
To my knowledge (others feel free to correct) the high quality button is there to enable showing the full res version of a DV codec QT movie. by default, a lower resolution of DV is displayed for playback purposes, but the HQ button is there to allow you to over ride that. I typically use it if i need to do a screen grab of a DV clip for documentation of something else. This should no effect the quality at all when laying back to tape or encoding into another codec.