Daniel Low
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MPEG-2 is the standard format for use with DVD Video and will give you a high quality picture if encoded correctly.
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You need a Mac to work with them, there is no windows version of the codec
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Have you tried flip4mac??
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I’d need to see a grab of the source before being 100% sure but I believe you are seeing the effects of colour sub-sampling i.e. going from a 4:4:4 codec like Animation to one of the others which could be 4:2:0, 4:2:1 or 4:2:2.
Different applications will perform the colour-space conversion in different ways. I’ve not done any side-by-side test for a while but I’d hazzard a guess that After Effects, or Shake might do the best job.
H.264 can be 4:4:4, 4:2:2 or 4:2:0, it all depends on which H.264 codec, profile and level you’ll be using. Quicktime h.264 is 4:2:0 IIRC
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.264
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Could you post a screenshot of the problem, just so I’m sure what it is?
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If you already have compressor then it should do a better job than FCP, you don’t state what formats you are working with. If you want to spend some money on something, then there are a number of tools you can use that might do a better job, depends on your budget and the amount of time you are prepared to invest getting the best from them.
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Josh,
What other packages do you have extensive experience with? Enough in-depth experience that’s is to claim that the price and quality of Squeeze is “unparalleled in this industry”.
How closely did you compare it to Canopus Procoder, for example, which costs the same and is in my opinion a better product.
The purpose of my post was not to berate or belittle you, but I have come across people like yourself on these forums, who are run of a multitude of companies, ‘affiliate’ money -making schemes, who’ve never posted here before, yet in their first posts claim to be experts.
E.G.
https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/117/856632
https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/117/856768I just find something fishy about somebody who claims to “have created some of the internet’s most innovative audio and video publishing strategies, players, and services“, along with “The Greatest Web Video Effect Ever” and “How You Can Make A Pile Of Cash From The Total Web Video Affiliate Program”, uses Squeeze.
Bottom line is I believe you posted your reply here largely in order to generate search engine hits for your name and links, a little bit like your promotion on one of your sites here:
https://nanacast.com/index.php?&req=vp&id=64507
Sorry if I appear condescending, brash and belittling but you’ll notice that many of my posts are worded in such a way. I don’t like to beat around the bush.
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“Sorenson is one of the best encoding suites in the industry… “
What a strange, bold and rather contradictory statement considering you then go on to say:
“The main limitation is that Sorenson 5 for PC does not perform any faster on a multi core computer because they do not have the technology in it to use the multiple processors. “
And then in another post to this forum moan about the lack of support from the company.
“Sorenson support is no help ask they have no clue when it comes to encoding an avi with alpha channel to flv with alpha channel.”
Why would anybody want to buy a product from a company who “have no clue”?
“So if you are a “little guy” doing small volume of encoding then Sorenson is likely the best and most affordable solution available”
If you spent anytime looking through this forum, you find that there are plenty of “little guys” having terrible problems with Squeeze, not only technical issues but quality and support problems too.
Having used almost every encoding product out there, I can assure you that it is far from being one of the best.
That said, you are entitled to your opinion and I’d be very interested to hear what you compared it to in your own tests.
“Most “big boys” do not even understand their own demographic when encoding and just assume what they are using is the best because of speed and percieved image quality at high bit rates. “
The big boys require far more than ‘just’ speed and quality from an encoding solution.
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Encode with a constant rate control. There’s no point in wasting bits so it all depends on what the content is and what encoder/codec you’re using.
I’ve seen stunning MPEG-2 1920×1080 at 15Mb/s with tricky content but I’ve also seen crappy looking AVC at the same rate.
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Don’t exceed 45mb/s combined A/V. In your case you shouldn’t go over the bitrate of your source.
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