Daniel Low
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It would be surprising if MPEG-2 worked, no still camera I’ve ever come across can capture video to MPEG-2
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Having .mov on the end only indicates its a Quicktime movie, any codec or any combination of codecs could be used to create that mov file, including MPEG-4 codecs.
Having .mp4 on the end only indicates that it is an MPEG-4 encoded file – it does not indicate whether it’s an MPEG-4 pt2 or an MPEG-4 pt10 (H.264/AVC) file.
So your comparison is like saying “I have one plastic bag full of potatoes (MPEG-4 potatoes) and an identical plastic bag full of ‘other stuff'(.MOV potatoes carrots and wine) Why aren’t they the same?”
.MOV is a wrapper and a format, .MP4 is just a format, not a wrapper.
What codec did you use in the .MOV?
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When you come to do the export in future, uncheck the box that says ‘Make Movie Self-Contained’ this will simply created a reference movie, that’s much quicker to export and saves on disk space.
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Correct – not choosing ‘current settings’ and then even choosing the same setting as your project are set to will cause it to be totally and unnecessarily re-rendered.
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Export from FCP ‘using current settings’ – don’t re-render.
Open compressor and drag and drop the file into it.
Apply an SD DVD preset that matches the length of the video in total minutes, best quality.
Use the ac3 audio.
Author with the resulting m2v and ac3 files in DVD SP.
If you want more details there have been 100000s of posts here that’ll help you dig deeper.
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Glad you got the problem sorted, Ed is usually right, however 192Kb/s is really rather excessively high, I never get issues with stuff even as low as 64Kb/s so it could still be an issue with cleaner.
Episode it the one to upgrade to.
AE is a compositor and effects Application
Premiere & FCP are non-linear editors with lots of other stuff included.All the above can export to other video formats and include ‘some’ tools to improve the output (especially Premiere).
However Episode (and Cleaner) is a dedicated transcoding application and includes tools/filters and so on that non of the above have.
So although you can get a fairly decent looking output from the other applications, if want the best and want to perform stuff in batches etc, then you’d use a dedicated transcoder.
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Well there are a huge amount of CODECs that can be wrapped in a MOV – what did you try?
A quick look on the Kodak UK site says it’ll support MPEG-1 and MPEG-4 as well.
PhotoJPEG is nearly always used by digital cameras that use MOV
Ideally you need to inspect the properties of a movie taken with a Kodak camera
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I’d say your problem probably lies with cleaner. Although it remains one of my all time ‘classic applications’ it hasn’t been usefully updated in years. The last good version was released in 2000, discreet/autodesk slowly destroyed it after that.
Ed may have a point though, so it’s worth checking that before trashing cleaner totally!
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Another thought.
You could try a two stage process – first to 720p 30, then 480p 29.97, boring but it might get round the problem. My only other thought is to apply a very mild blur/noise reduction but that would be a last resort.
I’d really love to see this ‘jitter’ effect before I made a final judgement.
Most pro authoring houses can produce better/more efficient output than compressor is capable of (unless you are using the CinemaCraft plug-in) but then again most pro authoring houses would not consider DVCAM a good enough source format.
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This might be a shot in the dark an not make much sense but it’s worth a try; try using a lower quality resize method and a higher quality retiming method.
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