Ben Waggoner
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Agreed. The Telestream codec is a good implementation, but it doesn’t have alll the latest bells and whistles of our v11 implementations. And you can’t use WMV PowerToy to set all the magic registry keys:
https://citizeninsomniac.com/WMV/#WMV9PowerToy
Chroma Search + Adaptive Motion Search + In-Loop Filter can work wonders.
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What’s the frame rate of your source?
If it’s 30p, encode as interlaced.
If it’s 24p, encode using Compressor’s “24p” mode, which will make it have the proper 3:2 pulldown (top field first, I believe, but it doesn’t really matter).
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Yes, if your source is 4:3 (no matter the pixel count) you want to deliver as 4:3 square pixel for transcoding from 320×240.
The simplest thing to do is forget you know how many pixels are in the source – just make sure your source aspect ratio matches your output aspect ratio.
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Can you post a screen shot of a frame showing the problem?
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Also, why 360×240? If you have 720×480 source, it’s either 4:3 or 16:9, so you probably should be encoding at 320×240 or 432×240.
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Also, why 360×240? If you have 720×480 source, it’s either 4:3 or 16:9, so you probably should be encoding at 320×240 or 432×240.
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Good points, as an uncompressed AVI is RGB.
It gnaws at my soul to talk about uncompressed RGB on a compression board, but if it’s a short loop, it wouldn’t add THAT much to the file size.
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Does this need to be a cross-platform .ppt, or just for Windows playback?
If you just need Windows playback, I’d do a WMV.
What you describe should work in MPEG-1, but it’s a really weird size. 720 is normally the maximum width of MPEG-1.
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ProCoder 2.0.2 is pretty great, and works as a Premiere Pro plugin.
That said, if you’re still on 1.5, have you considered upgrading to PPro 2.0? Much improved version of AME in there.
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Oh, good real-time MPEG-2 encoding is definitely possible – ProCoder is faster than realtime for 1-pass VBR on my XP box (although 2-pass Mastering Mode is more like 1/3rd real-time).
There really aren’t any great MPEG-2 enoder on Mac. I like ProCoder for when I’m only doing 2-pass encoding, and CinemaCraft if I really need to tweak a file segment-by-segment.