Ben Waggoner
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Dissolves are one of the hardest things to encode for MPEG-2, so that’s where you’d expect problems.
In Compressor, do you have motion estimation on “Best”? 2-pass VBR?
Beyond that, increasing your peak bitrate will help. Great if you’re getting stamped media, but much higher could cause problems on DVD-R media. If you’re targeting stamped, push up the peak to 9 Mbps.
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Sorry, I’m on paternity leave this month, so not checking the boards as much as usual.
Glad it worked for you. The optical image flow stuff is amazing, albeit amazingly slow…
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I don’t recommend using QMaster for VBR encoding, but it’s okay for CBR. The problem with VBR is that there isn’t any coordination between nodes, so that it won’t move bits between them. So your VBR allocation gets worse the more nodes you have.
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Compressor 2 has pretty good (albeit glacially slow) scaling if you tweak the advanced modes. You can probably get by with F4M and Compressor 2. Compression Master is much more flexible, so it might be worth getting if you anticipate doing more with WM in the future.
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The big problem with QMaster is that your VBR gets worse the more nodes you have, since it does each VBR on each node independently.
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Nope, no WMV support in Darwin. You’ll need to get Windows 2003 server for that.
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You can get QuickTime in ProCoder by picking the System group – it’s in there.
That said, Photo JPEG is HUGE for the quality you get. What tools are you targeting? Many NLE systems now support WMV files, which can look great at a much smaller size.
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It’s the only tool that does Intelligent Streaming on the Mac, so if that’s what you want, that’s what you need to be using :).
It’s a nice tool. I like it. Very deep preprocessing. Nice batch mode.
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Yeah, who was that bet with. It was rather out of the blue for me :).
As for WMV on Mac, Flip4Mac 2.0 free for playback in QuickTime a decent start for you?
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Best overall.
As Charles said, there are special cases where things could vary. For example, Main Concept is the only Mac encoder I’ve tested that correctly does motion search in chroma as well as luma, which can help in some edge cases, like test patterns.