[Conrad Melanson]

I think I may have recently discovered the problem. When converting HD content, such as 1080 or 720, we noticed that when the frames control was set to on, we get a green bar on the encoded output, regardless of the output codec. When we stated setting the frame controls to off we no longer got the green bar effect.

I suggest you try this and let me know if you get the same results.

Cheers

Conrad

[Conrad Melanson]

HI Mike,

I’m still having the problem and have escalated the issue with my local tech. Interestingly it’s only happening on my new Mac Pro 12 core. When I encode the same clip with my older core 2 duo imac I get no green bar issues. Yet on the 12 core the issue persists. I am wondering if it has to do with the settings in AppleQmaster and how many cores I have associated to processing for Compressor. will post my findings as soon as I have an answer.

Best Regards,

[Conrad Melanson]

Thanks Greg,

Did what you suggested but did not find the CalibratedXDCodec.component in the folder you indicated. There were other .component files but not the one you mentioned. Will keep trying different settings in Compressor.

Yesterday when this occurred we were compressing/down-converting a 1080i file, (DVC pro HD output from fcp) to 720 x 480 Qucktime H264. This also occurred when converting the same 1080 i source file to mpeg 2.

We even got the same results exporting the same file to other frame sizes in H264 outputs. Then we turned off frame controls in Compressor and the problem went away.

yet when we went back to compressing to mpeg 2 in compressor, form the same source file the problem persisted.

Finally tried Adobe encoder to compress the file to Mpeg 2 and that worked fine. But no luck with Compressor.

Thanks for your post