Daniel Low
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What is it with people who think they have the creative licence to change my name?
It’s Daniel, not Dan.
Thanks.
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So, do you want it to play back from the DVD or have the ‘other person’ copy it off the DVD and have it play back from their hard drive?
If you want it to play back from the DVD you need to be more specific about what fits in a class of a [Oscar Bucco] “variety of higher end computers.”
I could have a 32 core PC which only has a 2x DVD Drive. or I could have a 486x with an upgraded 64x DVD drive. Which one is high end in your particular scenario?
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[Tom Laughlin] “So, with regards to my original post, it’s just a matter of wanting to know who has used CRAM”
Like I said, I know respected people who have and rate them highly.
[Tom Laughlin] “and if there are “other” specific elements one needs to understand and master, before moving into advanced compression techniques with Compressor, using it to the max”
Nothing specific, just learn all you can about the parameters of not only the specific codec but also what else the application around it has to offer in terms of pre-processing.
[Tom Laughlin] “but it doesn’t hurt to share or inquire about what other people are doing and how. “
That’s exactly what we are doing; sharing, but we do expect you to also make some effort yourself.
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Really? I disagree. You needed the whole of my answer. You just don’t realise it, yet.
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I answer that with a question: Would you know the difference between a ‘bad’ preset and and ‘good’ preset?
A true compressionist, dedicated to his/her art, would create a setting for each different piece of source and target they work with. There is no such thing as one size fits all, you can get very close but that’s all.
Even then, very few can make shitty video look good (I’ve done my time restoring stuff frame by frame). No preset is going to polish a turd.
Your search for reviews on Cram obviously wasn’t done particularly well as when I search on Google the first hit is this:
https://odeo.com/episodes/23725956-FMC-Review-Cram-Makes-Compression-Easy-and-FastThat review aside, I been told by fellow experts that they highly rate these presets.
At the price they are, you’d have to be a fool not to try them, if you can’t be bothered to experiment or haven’t the time to learn about the parameters it’s a no brainer!
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Everything Craig has said is spot on but why on earth/where on earth did you get a frame size of 567×319 from?
Let me guess, was it the person who designed your webpages/player?
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Jerky frame rates are even worse now.
The links to Amazon media play fine.
Why are you resizing at the player end?
You should transcode to the size you will be playing back at, never let the player resize for you.
Also, pick a frame size that is equally divisible by 16, or 8. 800×450 doesn’t work.
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[Tom Laughlin] “800KPS/sec”
This should be written 800Kb/s or Kb/sec – it stands for Kilobits per second (Could also be Kilobytes per second but that is generally written KB/s (uppercase ‘B’)
Most people find the best way of moving from FCP to compressor is to export a Quicktime Movie ‘Using Sequence settings’ i.e. exactly the same settings as your source clips.
For quality presets (or for those too lazy to create your own) you can’t beat these:
https://compressorpack.com/[Tom Laughlin] “Has anyone compared Compressors output to an equal output using Sorenson Squeeze?”
https://www.streamingmedia.com/article.asp?id=11633
[Tom Laughlin] “Also, I had a client in the past say that the file that I emailed to the client, they said it was ‘buffering too much’ and I explained to her that an H.264 800KPS/Sec (QT file totaling 18MB) encoded file sometimes eats up CPU power to play, though it has a great look and extremely low file size capability, does anyone know if I’m correct? “
Files played from the local hard drive do not buffer and even an old PC will have no problem with 800Kb/s H.264.
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/library/application support/compressor/
Like most things like this.
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Most good transcoding applications will give you that information.
Also look at MediaInfo – if you are on a PC – or Quicktime with Perian if you are on a Mac
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