Charles Simonson
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Sure, email it to the address in my profile.
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No, you need to do that through your website or such.
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I just tried this before posting and it worked fine for me. Is there any way you can post a small sample of your source? Just two or three frames would be sufficient.
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Well, there is Windows Media VC-1, DivX 6, Real 10, and Flash 8. The quality you get from all of these “next-gen” codecs is pretty comparable, with positives and negatives for each. I don’t really think there is any one or two codecs that truly dominate the others right now in all facets. Flash has a lot of support for free web-based videos, and VC-1 has good support for the paid, subscription, and physical media deliveries, while H.264 has gained good support in the STB and portable player arena.
It should be noted that speed is really a relative thing that can fluctuate greatly from one encoding app to the other. If you are on a mac, I have found the H.264 encoding capabilities of VisualHub to be very impressive. The latest version, 1.21, has some reworkings that make it slower (but with better quality) than the previous version, but the developer says that the next version of the app should be back on track in speed as it was with 1.20. v1.20 could encode max-res video for the iPod from 720p sources in about 4x/pass, and the quality at the 1Mbps bit rate is phenomenal.
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Yeah, that’s pretty simple. In the resize options, just crop some from the top and bottom and then choose the “Letterbox (Pad)” option for the “Maintain Aspect Ratio by” selection.
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Yes, upgrading to the HD version and selecting custom sizing output should work fine for this.
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As I mentioned before, Photo-JPEG is likely his best option. Quality shouldn’t be too negatively effected and he doesn’t need to convert to an uncompressed codec like Animation that is just going to use up a lot of extra disk space. Also, Compressor does not even compete with ProCoder in terms of encoding for MPEG-2. ProCoder 2 is the best MPEG-2 encoder in it its price category (sub $300).
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The Apple DVCPRO HD (installed with FCP) and Apple Intermediate (installed with iMovie) codecs are not available for Windows. Your best bet would be to export to a free cross-platform intermediary codec, like Photo-JPEG.
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Riiiiight…(extreme sarcasm here) This is why I said to try converting the VOB to a program stream first using MPEG StreamClip. Go back and read my post. Squeeze does not need to be involved for this first step. Just drop the VOB into StreamClip and select Convert to MPEG.
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Try first converting the VOB to a MPEG-2 Program Stream. MPEG StreamClip should be able to help with this. Also, make sure you are using the latest version of Squeeze for your license, which is 4.3.3.