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Jeff Greenberg
March 18, 2011 at 2:35 am in reply to: To burn a blu-ray – best way?

Walter – do mpeg2’s work? Sure. They work great.

And I’m telling you nothing you don’t know when I say that h.264 is a more advanced codec than mpeg 2- and provides better looking files at the same exact bit rate.

So, at the same file size, you’re getting a less ‘damaged’ file. I haven’t bothered to go out and do extensive testing on a variety of blue ray players – it’s just the ones I’ve built work (or don’t work) regardless of MPEG 2 or h.264 encoding. I haven’t bothered to try in windows for VC-1.

Best,

Jeff G

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Jeff Greenberg
March 18, 2011 at 1:01 am in reply to: To burn a blu-ray – best way?

I had Toast Titanium Version 10 up till this week when Toast 11 was released.

in SD you’re only allowed MPEG2 streams.
in HD, you’re alloved MPEG2 and MPEG4 streams.

You may have built a Blu Ray with SD material on it.

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Jeff G

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Jeff Greenberg
March 18, 2011 at 12:15 am in reply to: To burn a blu-ray – best way?

[Andrew Harman] “Toast only give me mpeg 2 and mpeg4-avc.
So are you saying Toast will not do it?
“

mpeg4-avc IS h.264

Both of those are permitting streams for a blu-ray dvd; at the same data rates h.264 looks better.

Best,

Jeff G

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Jeff Greenberg
March 17, 2011 at 6:34 pm in reply to: Choppy playback on slower machine

Uncompressed is fine – 30 fps (vs. 29.97) is also fine….

My one question/concern is this: why are you doing all of this?

If their video is ‘damaged’ and causing playback problems, shouldn’t you be getting the original video so you can compress it correctly?

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Jeff G

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Jeff Greenberg
March 17, 2011 at 3:33 pm in reply to: GoPro to ProRes to FCP 6 = 10x storage space???

[Yohanan Braunschvig] “1. is there a setting that will enable me to view these files as-is, without transcoding?
“

Not at this time. FCP isn’t set up to deal with the distribution codec (extremely lossy) that is used in a GoPro. They actively suggest using ProRes.

[Yohanan Braunschvig] “2. I have tried a test on a few resolutions of GoPro files, using mpeg streamclip to transcode to prores 422. the quality seems unchanged, but the file sizes are prohibitive! it is roughly 10x the size of the original! with 40 GB in the original project, getting 400 GB of HDD space jammed with duplicate material is unacceptable. what else can i do?
“

That’s about right. You could go to ProResLT and save about 30% of that…

Look, I know what you want: You want to have tiny file sizes and editing that works well.
Tiny file sizes = super compressed codec (lots of decoding= bad performance; lots of caching since not every frame has all the information)
Works well = large files (uncompress SD eats 1 gig a minute, uncompressed HD eats 6 gigs per minute.)

The general consensus: If you can afford FCP @ $1k, then a $100 hard drive (which in itself is a serious compromise) isn’t a significant expense.

Best,

Jeff G

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Jeff Greenberg
March 17, 2011 at 3:32 pm in reply to: Compressor Problem

Nikki,

What if you only compressed one minute. Does that work?
What about a different codec (again, just for one minute)?

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Jeff G

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Jeff Greenberg
March 17, 2011 at 3:22 pm in reply to: No/sketchy playback

This worked for me (with a nearly identical issue)

kb2 note

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Jeff G

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Jeff Greenberg
March 17, 2011 at 2:26 pm in reply to: Compressing multiple movie files for one DVD

Making sure I understand this: You have five individual pieces on a single timeline that you want to be able to play individually in DVDSP?

Take your m2v into DVDSP

Drop it into a track. Add Markers at the beginning of the track …and then at the end of each movie.

Create a ‘story’. A story plays whatever markers you list from a track. If there were 10 markers, and you said play “1,2,7” then it would play only the sections that start at that marker until it hits the next marker.

Then hook your buttons up to those stories.

Best,

Jeff G

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Jeff Greenberg
March 17, 2011 at 2:24 pm in reply to: How can one get a g5 or g4 to run FCP 7?

Yes, but ‘overall’ not run it terribly well.

ProRes will be just ‘okay’; better have 4 gigs of ram if you want to work in HD.

Also, it’s a heavy rumor that FCS 4 (or whatever the hell they’re going to call it) is probably coming out in the next 30-90 days.

In this field, it’s generally a ‘safe bet’ to buy current hardware (or one generation back ) if it’s been recently updated.

Best,

Jeff G

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Jeff Greenberg
March 17, 2011 at 2:15 pm in reply to: Choppy playback on slower machine

Kelly,

Are you converting it through FCP to re-export it?

You should use compressor to make it a 29.97 uncompressed file for editing in FCP (or MPEG streamclip- a great free open source utility)

What’s a ‘slower’ machine? h.264 of that flavor should work fine on macs made for the last 4 years, easily.

This will sound like a strange question: where are you playing it back that shows choppiness? Safari? QuickTime 7? QuickTime X?

Best,

Jeff G

Apple Master Trainer | Avid Cert. Instructor DS/MC
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