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You can make an offline as long as you match the naming (and extension) around 5-6 mbs/ and it’ll be ‘okay’ (but his computer will have to work hard.)
It sounds like though the camera is producing mpeg-2 @ 25mbs – and you should test to make sure (in a short sequence) that Premiere will let you relink.
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Hi Bec,
There seems to be some confusion here. All SD DVDs are 720×480 (576 in PAL). All. All area also MPEG2.
BluRay (the only HD DVD format) permits h.264 or MPEG2. There are several ‘legal’ sizes in BluRay including 1440×1080 and 1920×1080.[Bec Mills] ” I have been told by various PP users that I should be able to exp[ort out with H2.64 and convert to DVD either in encore or with Toast or other software.”
For a DVD you must not export in h.264 – it has to be MPEG2 that is correctly set up for DVD (or you’ll end up re-encoding.) I’m going to assume because you have Toast, you’re on a mac.
To take a screen shot, Shift CMD 4 permits a selection.
Take a look at the settings here.
You might also try Send to Encore menu choice.
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Hagop,
Take a section that has a problem (about 30 seconds) and just play with that (Rather than the whole 165 minute piece.)
Boost the h.264 settings as high as they’ll go. If they have the problems there, they’re going to have the problems no matter what.GOP setting won’t be much of a factor.
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Shoot it in 16×9 DV. It’s as good (or as bad?) as the DV 4×3…both of which are pretty so-so at best.
If you want to skip the pillar boxing of 4×3 material, this is likely your best choice given your tools.
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Yeah, a high bitrate h.264 is probably the way to go..you seem aware of the quality loss…Where are you uploading it to? I just want to know if they’re going to recompress or not.
The same high bitrate that I might suggest for this, wouldn’t ever work for a website’s stream of the same video.
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ProRes is a fine codec (just the 422 for this) for your finished “master”
It’ll mean that if you want to create something in the future, you can use this as a mezzanine format, rather than the raw work. A slight, slight quality hit, but decent enough.
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It sounds like you’re making an MPEG2 transport stream (.ts) That or a muxed stream mpeg2 stream with audio (mpg)
The GOP cadence is set on the encoding part of the inspector in Compressor.
Sadly, the slider you saw? That’s for the video component, not the audio.
I really don’t think you can do this easily in Compressor.
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[Jonas Bergmann] ” 1. I’d like to ask if it would be possible for me to load DNXHD files directly into Avid without transcoding in Avid, by placing them in the folders in the Avid_Root. Like where the DNX-files usually are placed; in the folders called: 1, 2, 3, 4 and so on.”
If you drop DNxHD MXF media in that folder, your avid will re-index that folder automatically. The negative is that your system won’t know what project ‘owns’ the media. Media loaded this way must be consolidated (copied) to assign project ownership.
Where are you getting these files? I know coming off a BM camera or Ki Pro (and a couple of other solutions) can generate these MXF files.
[Jonas Bergmann] ” 2. If so, how many files or how much can I store in each folder?”
As I recall, the number is 10,000. You can create other numbers (the one inside of Mediafiles is the number 1 – so it’s Avid MediaFiles/1/ ). You can create a 2, 3, or whatever number you like. In some small way you could do this for raw media, making it easier to corral by project if you didn’t consolidate as above[Jonas Bergmann] ” 3. Will I be able to load these files from multiple external drives or will I have to load them directly from the AVID_root, as usually?”
For the Avid to index (and ‘see) the media, it must be in the root path.QuickTime and AMA is something else.
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Is there a reason you’re not using the Apple preset for Youtube in compressor (that shows up now in FCPX through share?
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[Remington Swales] “what codec or format output will give me the best results”
It really depends on your use! If you mean for it to be sourced over and over again (a digital master) uncompressed (unrealistic) is perfect. If you mean for how small you can get it and have it look good, it’s an h.264 file. But that’d be disasterous for DVD playback or a Playout server that expects MPEG2.[Remington Swales] “I am mainly wondering about how to determine the GOP sequence a codec”
Whichever software you use (by the way, which one?) may have a switch allowing you to adjust the GOP pattern.
[Remington Swales] “if it’s possible to have mpeg 1 layer 2 audio on a .mov file”
It depends on the compression tool. a QuickTime file (mov) can have non-standard ‘mixes’ of audio and video codecs; It seems like you might be building an MPEG2 or MPEG4 file.[Remington Swales] ” I’m also not understanding that audio bit rate spec.”
You have two items here – how many samples per second: 48000 – how many times the audio will be sampled.
The bit rate is how compressed the audio will be. It’s set to 384 kb/s (way easier to read than 384000b/s).I fear you’re using Apple’s Compressor, which is a great tool, but the wrong one here – as it won’t let you get to setting the audio bit rate (or a couple of other things you’re looking for.)
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