[Mark Wilkinson]

i am using DVD studio pro 4.2 on a mac 10.5.5

[Mark Wilkinson]

thanks again for your help with this daniel. i think it was something system level, i guess compressor can get tweaked at that level, it stopped submitting batches ( or hanging on them ) so i used this :

https://www.digitalrebellion.com/compressor_repair.htm

and that cleared up everything.

[Mark Wilkinson]

thanks for your help with this ( and the other compressor issue ). the 856 stuff does look better. strange that even the apple presets aren’t 856…

[Mark Wilkinson]

so i did a few more tests and it looks like when i take the preset for H264 and open up the frame controls, i get the blank results. i tried a bunch of variations with frame controls on ( better, best, etc ) but it seems like anytime they are switched on, i get the blank.

i tried exporting the movie with a few different codecs ( i had been exporting from After Effects with the animation codec ), uncompressed 8 bit will let me get a movie through compressor with the frame controls on, but it looks pretty weak. DV NTSC gets through as well but doesnt look as good as the animation codec. i guess now its a toss up between the Animation codec with no frame controls and the DV codec with them.

[Mark Wilkinson]

thats a number i havent seen. i have seen 853 and 854.

the flicker is in the source but i tried that number and it does look better overall. thanks for that…

[Mark Wilkinson]

hmm. strange though because the source looks good on its own and plays fine and it exports fine from the QT player, just not from compressor.

[Mark Wilkinson]

the other question is, do i have a shot at a better result coming out of compressor than i do out of the QT player ? the end product is a movie file to be played through VLC on an Intel Mac to a projector.

[Mark Wilkinson]

just little tweaks. here are the settings:

Audio Encoder
AAC, Stereo (L R), 44.100 kHz
Video Encoder
Format: QT
Width: 854
Height: 480
Pixel aspect ratio: Square
Crop: None
Padding: None
Frame rate: 30
Frame Controls On:
Retiming: (Better) Motion Compensated
Resize Filter: Statistical Prediction
Deinterlace Filter: Better (Motion Adaptive)
Adaptive Details: On
Antialias: 0
Detail Level: 0
Field Output: Progressive
Codec Type: H.264
Multi-pass: On, frame reorder: On
Pixel depth: 24
Spatial quality: 100
Min. Spatial quality: 25
Temporal quality: 50
Min. temporal quality: 25

[Mark Wilkinson]

yes, and i have tried both better and best. the deinterlacing got rid of a huge portion of the jaggies and as i say, a lot of it looks good, there are just these one or two areas where it sticks out.

[Mark Wilkinson]

i should mention that the final destination for this file is playback through VLC on a Mac laptop to a projector.