[Daniel_l]

I don’t think you can beat the Panasonic PT-AE700 for the money (about

[Daniel_l]

Tiger and cleaner do not go together, cleaner generally crashes when dealing with Quicktime 7. (you can I believe ‘go back’ to QT 6 in a fashion but it’s a hack not a fix).

cleaner is also regarded as hopeless for Windows Media jobs as it’s completely out of date and will almost certainly not recieve and future upgrades. (Discreet, erm, or rather, Autodesk Media and Entertainment division, please, please prove me wrong!)

Bite the bullet and stump up the cash for Compression Master from Popwire https://www.popwire.com/ – which can eat cleaner for breakfast.
Or Flip4Mac – https://www.flip4mac.com/

Not sure what problems you are having downloading WM9 – I’ve just done it without a hitch.
https://www.microsoft.com/mac/otherproducts/otherproducts.aspx?pid=windowsmedia

[Daniel_l]

Hi

This page should have all you need – a POwerpoint pres half way down seems to answer most questions.

https://www.mpegla.com/m4v/m4v-faq.cfm

[Daniel_l]

Maybe this is what you are looking for?

https://www.mpegla.com/avc/AVC_TermsSummary.pdf

DL

[Daniel_l]

Thanks Charles,

To be honest I’m not at all bothered about the adoption rate of QT7 – this is for my personal use (along with some ‘bleeding-edge’ Mac based friends who have QT7).
I’m well aware of the processing requirements for encoding H.264, but are you sure there’s no real quality advantage over SV3Pro at data rates between 750-1000kb/s (surely there must be over MPEG 4 part 2!?)

I was really just looking for some hints and tips from those that have done some similar encoding.

Cheers

DL

[Daniel_l]

Tom,

Brightness -3
Contrast +12

The above is a ‘starting’ point for PAL. Luckily I’ve had very little to do with NTSC.

DL
p.s. I still dont know what your source format is and what you are delivering to….

[Daniel_l]

Dan

It accepts MPEG-2 (ATSC). I think Popwire Compression Master can handle the job, Apple Compressor can’t.

DL

[Daniel_l]

Nothing automatic – I use my eyes. If there was a magic formula, or a library of perfect presets, I’d be out of a job.

Bottom line is make sure black is black and white is white, but not too white!

You might find some more help here:

https://www.poynton.com/notes/brightness_and_contrast/index.html
https://www.poynton.com/notes/colour_and_gamma/GammaFAQ.html

DL

[Daniel_l]

Sadly Sony have decided to use a ‘proprietary’ version of H.264 (it’s not proprietary, but it might well as be). It would appear that the only way to get this onto the PSP is to use the ‘Connect’ software (Windows only!) https://psp.connect.com/. There are some Windows only software ‘hacks’ as well – probably best avoided.

So, use Compressor to do all the pre-processing – crop, scale, frame rate and colour correction and simply use Connect to compress and upload.

You’ll also find that you have to follow a rather silly naming convention – M4VXXXXX.MP4, and I’ve been told video has a data rate limit of 1.5mb/s.

Sony don’t really want you to put YOUR movies on the PSP, only Sony’s

DL

[Daniel_l]

Restoring can work well but generally you’ll find that the values set will not work across a whole clip.
Usually actual values are dependant on the footage (format, PAL or NTSC, lighting, camera model etc etc) but you’ll find that application like cleaner & procoder have a 601 correction preset. It really always is a question of trial and error.
Experienced colour correctors never use presets or set values, only doing it by eye.
As i said previously you are only expanding from 16-235 to 0-255 you should be able to figure out some % change from those values.