Matthew Keane
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> Best MPEG-2 for DVD on Mac today is Compressor 2.
Looks like today is ‘follow-up ben’s posts’ day for me… Last one, I promise!
MPEG2 encoding in compressor 1 was pretty disappointing, but seems much better in compressor 2. I’m just curious as to how you’d rate its output against a PC based solution like Procoder. I’m working in FCP, so a mac workflow is simpler, but if a PC encoder offered better quality I’d shift to that.
Matthew
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Hi,
If you’re using compressor 2, you can click on the
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> the only thing it doesn’t handle is transport streams with muxed ac-3.
Hi Ben,
You mean as an source file? It can compress to mpeg2 and mux in an ac3 file though, right? I suppose I should just head over to their site and read all the blurb, but it’s been a veeeery long day!
Thanks,
Matthew
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Hi Ben,
Yeah, I’ve been doing some tests and the MPEG2 seems to give better results – hardly surprising given the data rate is about 5 times higher. Having said that, I played around with the latest Divx beta on Mac and was pretty impressed with the image quality, although the playback stutters a bit on slower machines. The MPEG2 is almost perfect, apart from a couple of fast vertical movements – a rostrum-like move over an image in After Effects – which jumps a bit.
Matthew
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Hi Chris,
Yeah, I’ve been playing with that, but getting the hue shifts on the different colours in the logo to match the red is fiddly, and as the guy moves the light changes quite a bit as his body is angled towards a window. Ugh! I’ve precomped the recoloured logo bits and now trying to match the lighting changes on that. Getting there… slowly!
Matthew