[Remington Swales]

Jeff thanks for the input.

I am outputting this as an SD digital file for broadcast. And I don’t believe they like h.264 that much where we are sending it. So I need to just figure out how to configure a compressor preset that will conform to this spec sheet they gave me. I;d prefer to deliver a .mpg file but I work with .mov much more. Being an editor I’m not used to having to conform to GOP sequence specs.

I just want to deliver the right file, nothing worse than getting files in the wrong format.

I am outputting this from FCP through Compressor 3.5.3 (Still working in FCP Studio 2, probably going to adobe soon though)

Thanks for the help on the bit rate conversion for the audio, I set the sample rate but was thrown off because when I used the quicktime preset in Compressor it only allowed me to do audio bit rate up to 320 kbps. But upon looking at the MPEG-2 transport/program stream preset I saw the slide that lets you set your audio bit rate up to 40 Mbps.

As I’m probably gonna me migrating to Adobe this year is adobe media encoder works better than Compressor.

[Remington Swales]

I looked back in compressor per your suggestion of using the program or transport stream preset and as far as the GOP sequence issue goes it does have a tab that allows me to designate the sequence I want.

[Remington Swales]

I really appreciate the advice. I may be something I need to invest in if I start outputting more tv shows but at this juncture the majority of my deliveries go to the web. I’ll have to try manually changing the file extension and see if that makes everyone happy.

Thanks Again for the suggestions

[Remington Swales]

Craig thanks for the response.

I was going to use the program stream prest in compressor but that gives me a .mpeg file extension. But they requested a .mpg extension. The only preset I could get that result with was MPEG-1 but it locked the aspect at 320×240.

This is being output in SD for broadcast and I think the mpeg2 compression looks much cleaner than the mp4 .mov I exported.

[Remington Swales]

So sorry for the lack of info/specs

OS X Version 10.7.5
Compressor Version 3.5.3

Compressor was installed with Final Cut Studio 2 about 2 years ago. I used to have “This Computer” as a cluster option for a long time and noticed it had vanished in the last few weeks.

I tried creating a new admin account, rebooting, and checking to see if “this computer” showed up as a cluster in there. It did not.

[Remington Swales]

I am doing a live capture from a Panasonic HDX-900 via firewire into Final Cut Pro using Log & Capture. I have tried both just changing the active window pane between the L&C window and the browser window for playback and closing the log and capture window after each capture and then reopening. Yet I can only do this 2-3 times before Final Cut crashes while trying to open the Log & Capture window.

[Remington Swales]

We are exporting it to XDCAM HD 1080i60.