[Dakotacurt]

Joe and Craig,

I’ve uploaded a variety of Episode encoded spots to my drop box, only to have them rejected. When the DG Tech guys look at the spots they say the spots look fine and don’t understand why they’re getting rejected. Yesterday one of the Techs suggested I try the demo version of the Main Concepts encoder. I did and it worked. I’m mostly concerned about finding a method that works. I don’t know what this means for Episode, but I’m planning to talk with the rep who initially helped me buy Episode.

I’m using Episode 4.2.2 on uncompressed Final Cut generated QuickTimes. If you’re interested, here’s a link to Main Concepts: https://www.mainconcept.com/site/?id=761

Thanks for your ongoing help,

Curt Friesen
Dakota Video & Post

[Dakotacurt]

I’m using version 4.2.2 on MacBook Pro 2.16 GHz w/ 2 GB RAM on OS 10.4.8. DG emailed me a settings file from a client who has had success encoding, uploading and delivering files, but when I use these preferred settings to encode one of my files (uncompressed 8-bit from Final Cut w/Kona LHe), the result ends up with severe compression tiles/pixilation. The preferred file includes settings of: Bitrate-based, CBR, Average rate of 25,000 kbits/s, closed gop, gop format of IBBPBB, interlaced, 2-Pass, and I crop the bottom 6 lines. I’ve not uploaded one of these files because the quality is so poor. I have noticed if I change the gop format to I-frames only, the result looks very good, but the uploaded file prompts an email message from DG that the file, “contains a file format not supported by DG Systems or the file is corrupt”. Any ideas that might work?

Thanks,

Curt Friesen
Dakota Video & Post Productions, LLC
curtis@dakotavideo.com