[Daniel_l]

Not alot out there equals the quality of Procoder when in Mastering mode.

[Daniel_l]

PC = ProCoder/Carbon coder
Mac = Compression Master

A few years ago the answer would have been Cleaner from Discreet but you can give that a wide miss nowadays.

[Daniel_l]

New version of cleaner – don’t make me laugh!

Go with Compression Master and/or Squeeze

[Daniel_l]

Mmmm, I see little point in using an application for encoding when it can’t deal with audio.
Maybe your combination of QT6/7 has helped you get around some of the issues cleaner has?
I only use cleaner for certain pre-processing tasks these days. It’s either too slow or bombs out for anything else.

[Daniel_l]

My G4 Dual 867 with 768MB RAM and basic graphics card works fine with SD DV in FCP 5 and Tiger is no problems – you just don’t get all the widget eyecandy, no big deal.

[Daniel_l]

Yup – just use Quicktime pro to encode to a PAL DV file – it’s one of the standard export options.

[Daniel_l]

Cleaner 6 is not compatible with QuickTime 7 and is unlikely to ever be.
By all means use Cleaner for pre-processing (cropping colour correction etc) and then Quicktime 7 Pro or another application to create your MPEG4 or H.264 output.

DL

[Daniel_l]

AVI’s can use a whole bunch of different codecs from uncompressed to DivX and all its various cousins. If you get white it means that you don’t have the correct codec installed. AVI is just a (crude) container format like QuickTime.

https://people.csail.mit.edu/tbuehler/video/codecs/avi.html

Try installing DivX and XviD and if that fails try playing the clips in VLC (VideoLan Client). Google for them.

Bottom line – AVI is a crap format and is long overdue to be placed in the trash.

DL

[Daniel_l]

Have you re-installed the application, (or did you copy it over from your previous system? – if you copied it across then it’s very unlikely to work)
If you did a fresh install, and it still won’t open, then it points towards more serious, system-level problems and I would suggest backing up and doing a fresh, full system install (not an archive install).

[Daniel_l]

1st thing to try is to run a System update (under the Apple Menu – Obviously you’ll need an internet connection)
2nd is to ditch the .plist preferences file and re-launch DVDSP
3rd is to trash & re-install the Application.

If all that fails try posting your problem to the Apple DVD studio Pro forum:
https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_view_posts.cgi?forumid=155