Philip Johns
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To be honest I don’t really know – I’ve only noticed how much darker it is than the original edit to notice the quality. I have only just purchased it primarily for encoding FLV files which it doesn’t seem to be doing a very good job of as well. A bit disappointing considering that I paid over $1,000AUD for it 🙁
It seems strange that I should have to put a brightness filter before rendering. I can do this, but this is definitely less than ideal. It seems like a quicktime problem more than anything because I run an AVI through ProCoder and it works fine and yet with a quicktime I get the black blacks.
Phil
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I’m kinda swinging towards Sorenson Squeeze so far. I’ve used the compressor that comes with Final Cut Studio but, to be honest, I think it’s crap!! For some reason they’ve restricted the mpg dimensions to 352×288 and you can’t customize it. In ProCoder or Squeeze you can. Plus the quality is really quite rough and it takes forever to render.
Yes it does cost extra for Squeeze if you want to encode flash, but you have far more output options (wmv, mpg with no restrictions) than compressor. Haven’t tried Episode – may have a look at it, but reliability is also essential.
Anyone know whether Cleaner is better than Squeeze? Does it to FLV using the on2 codec?
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I tried using the studio suite but, as you say, it’s nowhere near as good as procoder. For instance if I encode to MPEG 1 I can’t seem to find a way of setting the dimensions of the output. This is a problem as it seems to be locked to an aspect that’s 4:3 where I’m working with 16:9. Uncompressed is also a problem as this churns out a whopping 11gb file for a 2 minute clip. A lot to get over a 100 base ethernet network! This is how I have worked around it, but it’s VERY time consuming. I haven’t tried exporting an uncompressed file straight out of FCP, I converted it first. I’ll try that too. I guess a workaround would be to swap an external firewire drive or something… now there’s a thought :)… still a bit of a bugger that I can’t work on the native HDV output file though.
Phil