Christoph Gelfand
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Thanks, Charles. Seems as if ffmpegx is a little quirky- I tried it out and got nothing but digital garble- maybe I did something wrong. Bitvice, Digigami and Compression Master are at the higher end in terms of price, but it seems like you would endorse MainConcept even more than those in some cases and it’s a little cheaper. One thing I noticed was that Squeeze actually did a better job than Compressor in terms of dissolves and overall quality. But my issue with the Squeeze output and the MainConcept output was that they were very dark. Is this a gamma issue or just something I have to live with? And why did you not recommend Squeeze and Cleaner?
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Do you find that compression master works better than compressor for MPEG-2 with DVD as your final format?
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I see. That makes sense. Thank you, Charles. Now would you factor BitVice into the picture here or you swear by MainConcept? I’ve also heard Digigami’s a contender.
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compressor seems to have too many flaws- i keep getting chunky dissolves, bad blacks, lots of noise…and i’ve tried 1 pass CBR, 2 pass VBR, GOP open and closed…etc…I am working in DV now and seem to always have a project that needs encoding and am finding the sources that are available to be subpar- do you find Procoder 2 to be superior to the Mac options? And when you say “single-format card” do you mean a card that only does DV as opposed to HD and other formats? Just seems like time-wise a hardware encoder is far better and then quality-wise, at least for DV it’s still better…but I’m just basing that on what I read…maybe you can elaborate more…thanks