[Daniel Low]

[Brendan Pyatt] “How can it be something in my FCP / Matrox settings that is causing this?”

Simply because the clip looks fine when viewed in the Quicktime player.

Have a look at this thread:

And here

(Both links are to Matrox MXO user forum support)

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[Daniel Low]

[Nelson May] “I am thinking about a complete re-wipe and install, but I can’t have the G5 down for any amount of time for the next two weeks. “

A complete fresh reinstall shouldn’t take more than a couple of hours, in my mind that’s a very sound investment

[Nelson May] “I appreciate your help, but the app shouldn’t be this buggy, even after two years out. “

There are many thousands of people who don’t have any issues with compressor yet use it daily as a production tool. The number of people who are having problems is relatively small, those with as serious issues as yours find that a reinstall of the the OS, as suggested, fixes things for good.

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[Daniel Low]

This is covered on page 83 of the compressor 3 user manual and is achieved through the use of a .scc file. As pointed out by Matt, CCExtractor should work fine for you.

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[Daniel Low]

[Susan Weimer] “I went to compressor to change the frame size under geometry in change dimension (encoded pixels ) and its not highlighted”

From the pop up menu did you choose ‘Custom’

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[Daniel Low]

[Brendan Pyatt] “I have found that using DVCPRO50 codec produces results that look fine in QT but appear blurry / pixelated in FCP (checking them using a Matrox MXO hooked up to a 23′ ACD).”

Like I said before, there must be something about your settings in FCP or Matrox that is causing this.

If it looks good in Quicktime then it will look good when you play it out to where ever it is going, it’s likely that it’s just a ‘preview quality’ that you are seeing in FCP.

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[Daniel Low]

Couple of things:

Have you tried a complete fresh system re-install, not simply an archive and install?

Have you thought of updating to Leopard? If not why not?

How did you buy compressor/FCS? Was it on online or though a reseller?

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[Daniel Low]

Episode from Telestream or ProCoder from Grass Valley will do a very nice job for you.

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[Daniel Low]

What do you mean by best?

Best quality?

Easiest to use?

Fastest?

Cheapest?

Have you captured them as MPEG-1, 2 or 4?

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[Daniel Low]

This is probably best answered by one of the experts in the Final Cut forum

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[Daniel Low]

[Craig Seeman] “Once implemented, he believes H.264 Scalable Video Coding will dominate as a standard multi bit rate delivery method”

I’ll second that.

[Craig Seeman] “He said Dicas is about as good as Main Concept (MC had slight but insignificant edge), Apple’s is way behind. Generally this is most noticeable at lower bit rates). Squeeze has fixed issues with it’s implementation of Main Concept in recent updates.”

Watch out for updates from Apple and Mainconcept. Interesing he doesn’t mention Ateme

More from Jan:

https://www.streaminglearningcenter.com/articles/

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