Charles Simonson
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First, make sure you have the 4.1.3 demo version of Episode. The main reason is that you will want to use some of the new templates included and it has a small fix for deinterlacing. Select the MPEG-2>Program Stream>NTSC_HD_Mux setting and edit from there. For the MPEG-2 settings, leave it alone or adjust the bit rate as needed and select 2 pass if needed. For Frame rate, leave that the same as your input. For Deinterlace, choose your field order of the source, then select Interpolation, and choose either a complete deinterlace or deinterlace moving parts (automatic). For Sizing, choose the size you want to encode to and depending on how you set the deinterlace option, try progressive output or scale fields independently.
Now, my question to you would be why you want to compress your source HDV in the first place? If the resolution is too high for the monitor, just leave it as it is and let it play back scaled down via the player. Unless you are encoding this for a specific type of device. But most decent PCs in the last few years can handle HDV play back. And if neither of these options works for you, then I would suggest checking out another encoder, MainConcept (MPEG) Encoder for Mac.
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Are you exporting to a .mp4 or .mov? .mp4 is better for true streaming, like when using a QT Streaming Server. But if you want to embed the video into a web page and use progressive downloading, I would suggest .mov. You can still use your current and any future encodes with the settings you have used thus far, just make sure you open the movie in QT first and then do a Save As. This will write the file as a QT movie and you should be set. Also, you need to make sure your client machine that is trying to play the movie has at least QT 7 installed.
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Try a search or read further down next time. This was answered just recently.
https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_read_post.cgi?forumid=20&postid=856500
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What type of .mp4 is it? If it is MPEG-4 Part 2, then that is compatible with QT 6 and OS 9. If it is H264 based, then you would need QT 7 for play back and need to convert. The codec I would recommend in that case is Sorenson Video 3. It is backwards compatible to QT 5.
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Check out this post from a few days ago: https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_read_post.cgi?forumid=20&postid=856564
No, F4M does not have a pass-through mode to combine and rewrite WMV files. But there is an app for the PC that can somewhat accomplish what you need to do. -
The core team behind ProCoder 2 left Canopus, so an update seems unlikely. However, a completely new version could be possible.
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I think what he means is that for the live signal, each pass is done in real-time. Of course, in order for this to be accurate, the encoder would need to be able to control a deck or its input source and be able to read some sort of accurate timecode to sync the two passes.
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Works well? Yes. Produces good quality? No, at least not at full SD resolutions. WME will either generate good quality and drop tons of frames or it will generate somewhat acceptable quality and drop fewer frames. The reason there isn’t an appliance yet is that in order to encode WM live at good quality and without dropping frames is to use a Quad Proc machine like a top of the line Opteron or Woodcrest. Dual Proc machines can do a decent job as well, but you won’t be able to turn on nearly as many of the tools for encoding without quickly dropping frames. There are hardware encoding chips for WMV but they run about $1K a piece. And to encode SD WMV at 480i takes about 3 chips.
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If they are non protected, then just copy the disc to your HDD (there are a number of apps for ripping and separating tracks from a DVD) and then use that as a source in ProCoder. You could use an app like MPEG StreamClip to convert from MPEG-2 to QT first, but there isn’t much need for that unless you have problems with the audio. Anyway, once you have your source, use it in ProCoder (make sure you don’t have QT 7 installed on the system; use QT 6.5) and you should have no problem encoding to WMV, Real, and QT.
Now, whatever you have heard about Squeeze being faster than ProCoder is absolutely false. Both apps use the same libraries for encoding to most of their formats (the big difference between the two being different encoders for MPEG-2). In fact, ProCoder should be a bit faster because it has better optimized filters and is better at multitasking and multithreading. This is however not to say that you may find some benefit to Squeeze. While ProCoder spanks Squeeze for MPEG-2, Squeeze is much better for Flash (by default at least) and QT Sorenson Video 3 (Squeeze includes the SV3 Pro encoder) encoding.
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Squeeze can take a DV stream and encode it to some formats in RT. For SDI streams, Ingest Engine from Telestream can encode to MPEG-4 and MPEG-2 Iframe only in RT. There are some MPEG-2 encoder cards for the mac that advertise here. But for the most part, you will likely need a PC for RT encoding. Mostly it is due to how capture cards use QT for capturing on a mac and DirectShow (which offers almost infinite more sw options)on the PC.