[Manu Cataldi]

Hi Dave, glad you mentioned it, I already have Adobe Media Encoder CS5.

Which settings do you recommend?

[Manu Cataldi]

I’m considering this project for screening at my university. They asked for a H264 file that will be played on a laptop.

I noticed a gamma shift in the first step, when converting source footage H264 to ProRes 442.

Let’s say I’m ok with that, but now, in the final step, I want the best results in getting a H264 master for the screening.

Most of tutorials only cover web compression in terms of small file size with average quality for upload.

So, which settigs do I have to use to a get the best H264 compression with my ProRes 442 master?

Thanks in advance.

[Manu Cataldi]

Well, I think I kinda solved the problem.

It looks that the MPEG Streamclip quality slider DOES affect when it comes to H264 codec. I’ve read that it doesn’t.

I was getting a 50% quality file, size 40mb and now I get a 870mb file with slider on 100%

Asuming that the quality slider was my first problem, I’m still having problems with gamma shift between the ProRes 442 master to H264.

Any ideas?

[Manu Cataldi]

[Michael Gissing] “What camera did you use? If it was shot interlaced then convert as interlaced. “

We used a Canon EOS 550D and footage is 1920×1080 H264 25 fps .mov file

[Manu Cataldi]

What about MPEG Streamclip? Give it a try