[Ben Waggoner]

I’ve been quite impressed with Compressor 2’s MPEG-2 encoding so far. I’m working on a formal test, but won’t have results for a few days.

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[Ben Waggoner]

Yeah. Cleaner is explicitly NOT qualified to run under QuickTime 7, which means it is incompatible with 10.4.

Plus it’s a crufty, buggy mess these days, about two years out since that last meaningful patch. There hasn’t been any sign that Discreet has had a single engineer assigned to it since 2003.

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[Ben Waggoner]

Any codec that uses entropy (aka lossless) encoding can’t be compressed much with RAR or other entropy encoding solutions. However, true uncompressed doesn’t have entropy encoding, and so 2:1 or so compression is pretty typical.

For some probably profound reason, most “interesting” real-world media, audio or video, only compress up to about 2:1 in typical use.

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[Ben Waggoner]

There aren’t any encoders I know of for WMV8 on Mac. For WMV9, you have your choice of the Flip4Mac or Popwire solutions.

Well, maybe VLC.

Why do you need the old codec? WMV9 has been out for ages now, and is very well supported.

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[Ben Waggoner]

I’m looking at having Compression Master 3.1 be the next title in my Complete Compression series

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[Ben Waggoner]

I’m glad to hear you’ve found a combination of options that works, but lots of numbers you can type into the WMV7 UI can result in corrupt files. Also, even if you’re targeting WMV7, if you encode with a Windows tool like ProCoder, you can use the much better, backwards compatible WMA9. And of course, Intelligent Streaming for WMV7 is only available on Windows.

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[Ben Waggoner]

Premiere Pro does a fine job with this kind of transcoding, typically.

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[Ben Waggoner]

I wrote a book about it, linked from my .sig below.

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[Ben Waggoner]

ProCoder will actually do this fine.

Add the source clip twice.

On the first clip, set the out point for your edit

On the second clip, set the in point for your edit.

Turn on stitching.

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[Ben Waggoner]

The Quick file format hasn’t changed in years. You just need to make a file with codecs compatible with the Windows version of QuickTime. Use either Sorenson Video 3 or MPEG-4 Part 2 (not H.264) for video, and MPEG-4 AAC-LC for audio.

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