Charles Simonson
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Also, there is really no reason you should be using 1.5.2. You should definitely update to 1.6 if you in fact own a real license for BitVice as it includes many fixes for reading QT movies.
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In MPEG StreamClip, export the clip to Quicktime and make sure to enable to audio. Really shouldn’t be any problem if you do that and can then play the file back in QT and hear audio.
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You could export out to QT from AE using the Pixlet codec. I have found this codec to be very good at retaining color and quality for intermediary sources.
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FYI, Compressor 2 has a fine MPEG-2 encoder. I wouldn’t say it is necessarily any better or worse than Episode’s MPEG-2 encoder. If you are having issues with Episode, make sure you are running the latest version of Episode, which is 4.2.1 and recently included some fixes for DVDSP compatibility; if that doesn’t solve it, then go back to Compressor or contact Episode support. Their email support team is usually very good.
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I am kind of confused as to what you are attempting here. So, are you trying to convert an anamorphic or square-pixel widescreen clip to 4:3 by cropping off the original letterboxing (ie the source displays widescreen 16:9 but has letterboxing because the original film aspect ratio was wider) and then stretching this to fill a 4:3 image, or are you trying to convert this to 4:3 by removing the letterboxing and also some of the side content, giving you a true 4:3 Pan-n-Scan look?
I have had lots of problems in the past with ProCoder and cropping/scaling. Its a great app for encoding and applying some filters to a source, but this is definitely one area where it comes up short on. If you have access to a mac, I would highly recommend trying Episode from Flip4Mac. If not, then I would suggest trying VirtualDub. This may be a two part process, where you will need to first crop the black bars from the 16:9 image and export, and then use this source to scale the video to your desired size.
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1.) You can’t change profiles without re-encoding.
2.) Don’t know.
3.) I wasn’t aware HP is a valid profile for HD-DVD. Wouldn’t surprise me if that has been added though. -
The x264 codec is still a good option on the PC. There are also plenty of other H.264 encoders on the PC as well. If you are looking for a professional H.264 encoder with tons of options, then I would suggest the encoder from MainConcept.
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If you just want to encode H.264 compatible video, there are a number of options. Assuming you are using a mac, Flip4Mac Episode, Sorenson Squeeze, and even shareware apps like VisualHub can encode H.264. There is also a QT exporter codec called x.264 that I believe works with QT6. As far as playing back H.264 with an app other than QT7, try the latest version of VLC.
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Essentially, use FLV for all video sequences, and SWF for all CG and animated sequences.
Now, as far as 1920×1080 FLV… hah! You are going to need a pretty beefy system to play that back, if it is even possible. I would strongly recommend encoding to some other format. Because as far as Flash is concerned, the larger the frame size gets, the more exponentially higher the requirements get in order to play back the video at full or even sufficient frame rates.
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The best options for MPEG-2 transport streams on the mac are MainConcept and Epsiode. You can also take a MPEG-2 program stream and convert it to a TS by using MPEG Streamclip, but I have had issues in the past with this for certain types of encodes.