[Ed Dooley]

I think they stopped that in 5.0. If you had the Quicktime MPEG-2 plug-in you could use it, but now you have to go to Compressor. Don’t be afraid, read the manual.
Ed

[Ed Dooley]

Good advice from previuos posts. If you do take it apart to replace, here are a couple of resources:
https://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=111925
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-ERjITjOUo

As for the Momentus, Apple has shipped it with some MacBookPros (so I’d say it’s Apple endorsed!). Here are a some tests comparing the 200g and the 160gig to other notebook drives:
https://www.barefeats.com/hard96.html
https://www.barefeats.com/hard90.html
Ed

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[Ed Dooley]

You say AJA, but not what AJA, there are a bunch of them. Some of them like the Kona 3s and LHs, do hardware HD to SD conversion. Some, like the AJA LA and LD and Kona Ss, are SD-only.
I edited most of my Beta-SP in Uncompressed 8bit, although if you’re short of disk space or data-rate DV50 works (and looks pretty good).

[Ed Dooley]

I’m usually more like the monkey throwing darts at the dartboard, sometimes I score. 🙂
192Kb *is* high. I commonly use 48-64Kb to get pretty decent web audio. MP3 isn’t as good as AAC or even WMA9, but having to go that high for audio takes away some data rate that could be put to use for good looking video.
Ed

[Daniel Low] “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.
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[Ed Dooley]

Yeah, Compressor is painfully slow. What Mac are you using? Do you know about QMaster? It comes with Compressor and it allows you to assign all the cores (processors) to compressing in a more efficient way. Do a search here and in the FCP forum. There have been a lot of discussions about it.
Ed

[Ed Dooley]

I use the Best settings for all Frame Controls. But why are you going through the step of outputting to DVCam then to a replicator? Why aren’t you just outputting to MPEG-2 while you’re at it? If you have others authoring the DVD you can give them the MPEG-2 files. I think you’ll see a marked improvement in quality.
Ed

[Ed Dooley]

What’s the audio data-rate set at? Often, a low data-rate (meaning more compression) will have that effect on audio. Try a higher data-rate and see if it helps.
Ed

[Ed Dooley]

So David, what you’re really saying is that nobody should read your article. 🙂
Ed

[Ed Dooley]

Try this:
https://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/
Ed

[Ed Dooley]

Um, use an 8-core Mac, don’t compress to H.264, don’t use Compressor? 🙂
H.264 is very slow to compress, and Compressor is slower at it than some other products.
Ed