Charles Simonson
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QT can still just do a pasted add to an encoded movie and not have to re-encode the entire clip. If you need to do this for two video clips, then just paste the new segment where you want it to appear and do a Save As. This will give you a movie with two video tracks, but there really shouldn’t be any issues because of it.
As far as the Win Media tools, neither of those will work. File Editor is just for extracting segments from longer movies. Stream Editor will let you combine multiple tracks, but they are layered on top of each other but not sequentially. WMV Append (Command Line) will allow you to combine multiple movies sequentially, however it inserts about a half second of black in between each source. If you can live with that, then it will suffice. There is a GUI version available as well (check Softpedia for WMV Append GUIP).
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What audio format are the DVDs in? If they are AC3, then your best bet would be MPEG StreamClip (free). Since your DVDs aren’t encrypted, all you need to do is insert the DVD into the drive, run MPEG StreamClip, import the video from the DVD (no need to rip to HDD first, but that would speed things up in the long run likely) into MPEG StreamClip, and choose to export from here to your necessary formats. Exporting to MPEG-4 or QT shouldn’t take that long, but using F4M’s WMV encoder is a time consuming process. My only suggestion here would be to try using Episode (about 4 – 6x faster) or some PC based encoder.
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Adding a logo to a QT file is easy. Just save a tif or compatible image format with alpha channels and overlay it on the video in QT by using drag and drop. This keeps the encoded video track the same without the need for recompressing while it just adds a still image track (layer) to the QT file. You must use .mov for this to work though, as .mp4 does not support this.
As far as doing this with a .WMV, while it definitely isn’t possible to do this without re-encoding in QT on a mac or any other app that uses the F4M or Popwire decoders, it may be possible on a PC. Although I do not have a enough experience in this regard to tell you how it is done.
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Do you have QT 7 installed on that system? There are a lot of known bugs in using QT 7 and Cleaner 6.0 on the same system. Supposedly, Cleaner 6.5 fixed a lot of those issues, but I haven’t spent much time with Cleaner in the past year to really know if everything really is stable. Also, the iPod does not support the QDesign codec.
And if the direct iPod export option doesn’t suit your needs from QT Pro, then just choose the MPEG-4 export option and match those settings as described in what the iPod can support on Apple’s iPod Tech web pages. But again, I really do recommend other trialware options or Episode if you want to really want to control your video encoding for iPod.
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Just to clarify, even though I mentioned QT Pro, the point is that you still need the SV3 Pro encoder license for good quality SV3. I don’t think Premiere includes the Pro version. Alternatively, you can try a different format, like WMV9, which Premiere should do a good job of encoding at my previous settings as well. You will need to install the free Windows Media Encoder for this to work though.
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You should be able to do that with the Sorenson Video 3 Pro encoder using 2-pass VBR at 320×240 with no problems. The standard SV3 encoder included with QT Pro will not generate acceptable results however. FYI, just yesterday I generated a 15 minute encode at 320×240 @ 500kbps which netted a file slightly less than 50MB and I was quite happy with the end result.
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Since Cleaner 6.0 doesn’t support H.264, your only option is MPEG-4 Part 2, which isn’t necessarily that bad for iPod if you are using the proper encoder, but Cleaner’s MPEG-4 Part 2 encoder is not the one you would ideally use for this. Instead I’d recommend a number of the trialware apps under $50 out there for encoding video to iPod, Apple’s own QT Pro iPod export settings, or best yet, Telestream’s Episode software, which has the best MPEG-4 encoder bar none on all platforms.
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I see that you have two options: 1.) In DVDSP, you can shorten the length of a segment in a track. Do this to the audio segment so that it matches the video segment length. 2.) Instead of recompressing all of your assets as one file, just combine the audio source segments into one source file and then compress it. This way you don’t have to re-encode your video assets which takes exponetially longer than compressing audio.
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10bit RGB? Do you mean RGB32? or 10bit YUV?
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That color format for the AVI (CRAM) is odd. I haven’t seen that in a long time. What I would suggest is exporting your movie as either v210 or 10bit. This should give you a format that is easy for Squeeze to translate and work with. I have seen more problems with Squeeze and RGB to YUV color conversions than pretty much anything else.