[Jack Updyke]

Jeff,
I had considered Episode Pro but the cost was about $900 and I only needed it this one time. Seemed a little excessive. I had checked out versions of Pro Coder and Cleaner but neither one did what I needed to do.

As it turned out, I compressed them in Compressor using VBR and then multiplexed them with a AC3 audio track into transport streams using Manzanita. While the video tracks were diffrent sizes, the AC3 audio track was the same for all five versions. Turned out the final muxed tracks were identical in size. Go figure. I guess the multiplexer took its cue from the audio and not the video.

The tracks worked perfectly once loaded on the servers and synced.

Subsequently, Adtec retracted there recommendation of needing CBR and stated that VBR would work..so problem solved.

How has your experience with Episode Pro been? I understand it works with Final Cut from the timeline and is supposed to be much faster than Compressor. What about the quality?

Thanks for the input.
Jack

[Jack Updyke]

Unfortunately, this only works for NTSC material. When trying to compress HD material, the CBR option is not available.

[Jack Updyke]

Adrianne,
I ran into a similar problem recently when trying to install an older version of compressor on my G5 Power Book. I found the solution on an Apple forum.

Here is the solution that worked for me:
In the applications folder right click (control click) on the Compressor application icon.
Select “Show Package Contents”.
Open the Contents folder and right click (control click) on Info.plist.
Open with TextEdit.
In the code you will see a line that says “AGP” change that to say PCI.
Close and save the file.
Compressor show now open without the error message.
It might be a good idea to create a duplicate of Info.plist to another location as a back up before making changes.

Hope this fixes it for you.
Jack