[Ben Waggoner]

Given you’re seeing the error outside of Flip4Mac, I’d guess it’s a QuickTime 7.2 bug or corruption in your source file.

My compression blog: https://on10.net/blogs/benwagg/

My compression class at Stanford: https://digitalmediaacademy.org/courses/video-compression-training.html

[Ben Waggoner]

There’s a middle ground – put in a link to a high quality web video. That way you don’t have to worry about email attachment size, nor the customer losing interest waiting for the DVD>

My compression blog: https://on10.net/blogs/benwagg/

My compression class at Stanford: https://digitalmediaacademy.org/courses/video-compression-training.html

[Ben Waggoner]

Does ProCoder Express support “Mastering Mode”? That’ll help further improve quality.

The full ProCoder 3.0 is only $500, and a quite capable tool.

My compression blog: https://on10.net/blogs/benwagg/

My compression class at Stanford: https://digitalmediaacademy.org/courses/video-compression-training.html

[Ben Waggoner]

If you can get a good AVISynth reading workflow going, WMCmd.vbs natively supports .avs inputs now. Then you can command-line script everything.

https://www.citizeninsomniac.com/WMV/#WMCmd

If your source discs are non CSS’ed, Rhozet Carbon is capable of excellent high volume encoding straight from .VOB on a disc to WMV.

My compression blog: https://on10.net/blogs/benwagg/

My compression class at Stanford: https://digitalmediaacademy.org/courses/video-compression-training.html

[Ben Waggoner]

I’ve done a ton of stuff with ProCoder in MP@HL, and it remains my favorite tool for it.

Can you share the settings you’re using with it? For HD, go for Mastering Mode. You should get pretty transparent with 25 Mbps CBR.

Also, for HDV source that’s 1440×1080, make sure to keep ProCoder in the same resolution (and in 16:9 aspect ratio).

My compression blog: https://on10.net/blogs/benwagg/

My compression class at Stanford: https://digitalmediaacademy.org/courses/video-compression-training.html

[Ben Waggoner]

The PNG sequence should be 24.000 fps.

Which version did I encode at 23.976? That was probably just sloppiness on my part.

My compression blog: https://on10.net/blogs/benwagg/

My compression class at Stanford: https://digitalmediaacademy.org/courses/video-compression-training.html

[Ben Waggoner]

You shouldn’t need to do anything at all. If you’r using a tool that lets you, just set the MPEG-2 field order to Bottom.

My compression blog: https://on10.net/blogs/benwagg/

My compression class at Stanford: https://digitalmediaacademy.org/courses/video-compression-training.html

[Ben Waggoner]

Ah, so you’re going interlaced to interlaced?

Make sure your output is:

16:9
interlaced Top Field First

You’ll want to make sure that you have Motion Estimation set to Best as well.

My compression blog: https://on10.net/blogs/benwagg/

My compression class at Stanford: https://digitalmediaacademy.org/courses/video-compression-training.html

[Ben Waggoner]

What format are you targeting?

My compression blog: https://on10.net/blogs/benwagg/

My compression class at Stanford: https://digitalmediaacademy.org/courses/video-compression-training.html

[Ben Waggoner]

Why don’t you want to back up in NTSC format? If you’re already using a compressed codec like DV, you can just Save As QuickTime with the same settings.

Unfortunately, QuickTime doesn’t include any efficient interlaced codecs. Unless your project is progressive, you’ll have to use something like Motion JPEG or DV for the backup.

My compression blog: https://on10.net/blogs/benwagg/

My compression class at Stanford: https://digitalmediaacademy.org/courses/video-compression-training.html