Charles Simonson
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Also, as far as I know, this bug is specific to Cleaner. I have never seen this with output from CM, and haven’t heard reports of Squeeze users experiencing this.
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This is a long-standing bug in Cleaner. The simple fix is to just open the movie in QT Pro, and do a new Save As (not recompressing). Rewriting the file, which places the correct headers on the movie, should work for you.
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Destination change: Right-click and choose “modify output directory…”
Name change: Go to preferences, select output file tab, and under default output filename, choose “use prefix:”
These options are limited, but its all Squeeze gives us.
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Todd, welcome back! 😉 The F4M Player plugin will also allow you to do straight WMV imports into FCP. Of course, you will have to render it once you do to whatever timeline codec you’re working in, but it is a rather simple solution.
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No, that doesn’t sound right. When you create an MPEG, you are creating an MPEG, not a QuickTime or Windows Media or AVI. True MPEGs are a file format in their own right. The only reason you may see a QT style icon on your MPEG file is because QT is the associated player for the file. If you associate MPEGs with Windows Media Player as the default, then it will gain a WinMedia icon.
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You should tell your client that a standard MPEG-1 (.mpg) will embed fine into a Powerpoint presentation. There is absolutely no reason whatsoever to want to have a MPEG-1 movie in an .AVI wrapper. While I am sure there may be some possible way to do what you’re asking, I certainly can’t think of a way using a mac. Also, when you are ready to encode to MPEG-1, Cleaner may not be your best option. If it works for your source and is cross-platform, then good, but Cleaner 6 has many bugs with regards to its MPEG encoding. Some other encoders that tend to do a better job at producing MPEG-1s on the mac are MainConcept, Compression Master, and ffmpegX.
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Ben is correct about CM3.1 on a G5. It absolutely screams on a dual G5, giving mac users encoding times comparable to the best PC encoders.
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Daniel, drop me an email. I plan on running some tests with the various AVC encoders some time this week, and I’ll let you know what I come up with, and how much of a benefit there is. I’ll also keep everyone here posted.
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That’s true. Sorry I didn’t clarify about the 1 and 2 pass thing.
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Compressor 1’s only redeeming feature IMO is the live playback of previewed output. Maybe Compressor 2 will change that, hopefully so. I do know that the interface is MUCH improved, and the network rendering feature is very useful. I’m definitely willing to give Apple another chance, we’ll just have to wait and see.