[David Gordon]

I do know Sorenson a bit, but dont have time to experiment with settings.

Nobody here can give you any magic setting or settings. At least spend a little bit of time experimenting with some of the presets to get a better understanding of what’s going on, what output format is going to be the best for you etc.

A similar question to yours would be something along the lines of:

“I’ve got a car, how do drive it? I guess you need to know my engine size? I’m dealing with a garage but they don’t even know what petrol is. I know how to drive a bit but I don’t have time to learn all the controls”

[David Gordon]

It’s probably a good ideal to base your settings on something close to the trailers on Apple’s site in terms of datatrate and so on (although I’ve found you can usually get away with dropping the datatrates somewhat), however you’re very unlikely to get close to the quality they offer. Apple has access to the very highest quality source material available.

It would be impossible to give you optimal settings here as so much depends on what your source is (format, content and so on).

Good Luck.

[David Gordon]

No, of course you shouldn’t get flaky behaviour from compression apps or any apps for that matter, but, in my extensive experience, this behaviour is very much part of the ‘wonderful’ experience of running Windows.

Uninstalling an application in (either using the application uninstaller or Add/Remove programs) rarely uninstalls everything that was installed alongside it and it maybe this that starts to cause problems. I have numerous XP systems whos applications crash on exit or suffer from multiple general errors on shutting down, or I have to end various processes with the task manager. I’ve just got used to it.

Although no excuse, let’s not forget that Windows XP is getting on to be well over 7 years old.

The demo version of Procoder is very much out of date and I would base any purchase judgement as the lastest version is so much better.

[David Gordon]

Danny2007 is right – frame sizes should be divisible by 8 or 16.

Here’s a list of optimum sizes: https://blog.influxis.com/influxis/?p=14

[David Gordon]

Are you guys working on Macs or PCs?

What format are the MOVs in? (CODEC, frame size, frame rate etc)

[David Gordon]

My vote goes to Episode, I love cleaner but it’s so unloved by Autodesk and as such has been left behind in the performance stakes.

[David Gordon]

Not on this forum please. Try Google.