Ben Waggoner
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Compressor supports some pretty advanced optical flow based resampling and scaling. It does a better job of upsampling to HD than most software. However, it takes some tweaking, and can be extremely slow – potentially multiple hours per minute of source on a dual G5.
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With MPEG StreamClip, you’ll need to have the file name before the “.m2v” and “.ac3” match precisely, and have them in the same folder. When you open the .m2v, it’ll load the .ac3 along with it.
FWIW, I think there’s a way to make a .ts with Layer II audio straight from Compressor.
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Which audio codec does the client want?
“normal” MPEG-2 embedded audio is MPEG-1 Layer II audio, which is what Compressor gives you. The .mts extension is for MPEG-2 transport stream. Most video/audio MPEG-2 uses the MPEG-2 program stream format, which might be what the client wanted.
However, many MPEG-2 uses, like digital broadcasting and DVD, actually uses the Dolby Digital (AC-3) codec. Those are actually a pain to make. You can make the video and audio in Compressor, and can then use a tool like MPEG StreamClip to mux them together.
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Well, it’s your test. Whip up something like what you want to do, and send me a download link and I’ll try it out. The only requiremnt I can think of is that it’ll need to be WMV9 – I don’t think the I-O Data supports VC-1 in the current implementation.
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If you installed the paid version of Flip4Mac, all QuickTime apps will be able to load WMV files. Except, alas for Compressor, which does very annoying filename filtering against formats QuickTime can read just fine, like WAV. However, you can load the WMV in QuickTime, do a Save As to a .mov (which doesn’t recompress), and then load it into Compressor just fine.
Goofy, but it works. Tools like Adobe Encore can load WMV straight onto the timeline, which is nice.
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I just remembered I have the I-O Data player sitting about 5 feet from me – anything you’d like me to test?
I’m quite sure it should work – have you heard of cases where it wasn’t?
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Yeah, you’ll just have to do the compression on PC.
Since Huffyuv is a 4:2:2 codec, I’d render out to the FCP 8-bit 4:2:2 codec on the Mac, and then use a YUV-native rendering app like ProCoder to convert from the .MOV to the .AVI.
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If you’re using QuickTime Player Pro, go into Display Properties, and check High Quality and Single Field. If that fixes your problem, it’s just that your source is interlaced. If it doesn’t, it’s something else.
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Nope. But the QT route you mention is pretty easy.
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It should work fine – have you heard of it not working in any cases.
Of course, you’ll need to stick with WMV9, as the I-O Data doesn’t support WMV9-Advanced Profile.