Rich Rubasch
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Also, iDVD has a default preference that you can set for Faster (not so good) or Slower (better). Check your preferences…your source file sounds like it is fine.
But iDVD won’t ever encode your video as well as a well setup compressor encode.
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Did you use cleaner 6.5? The new 6.5 has the new Flash Video codec and I got pretty good results on a recent project….it was way better than the free download version from macromedia.
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That is strange…you get the same error with the audio file? What is the audio’s sample rate and what are you encoding it to?
Rich
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These big reference files are convenient to a point…if it’s short and has few layers. Lots of things can clog the reading of a ref clip during compression. There is a ton of seeking around to put the pieces of the ref clip back together for the encoder. Usually, on a length more than 20 minutes or so you are better off ouptting the program to tape and redigitizing from the master to a single file. A reference clip from that new digitized clip will make it thgought the encoder much easier.
A real pain in the keester when your show is amost 2 hours…that’s 2 hours to tape and 2 hours back in, but you will not have those problems with the encoder.
Another option is to save out of AVID to a compressed codec of some sort to a self contained clip (still quite large) and run that clip through the encoder.
If you will be making these DVDs from long program material on a regular basis, the I recommend one of the PCI card realtime encoders from Wired or other…some of the cheaper PC video cards support realtime MPEG2 encoding from your master tape. I would find one of those…chances are you will make a tape master anyway, so after you make it just send it through the encoder realtime and 2 hours later you have your MPEG2.
But big ref clips from a long, multi-layered program are a bear.
One last thought…have you done a mixdown of the video tracks? In the AVID I used to do a mixdown to two new tracks and then delete all the other audio, this made for a neater ref clip.
Rich Rubasch
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Looks and plays like Flash Video 8 to me. Got the same start and stop problems I get with Flash video and although it looks good, the studdering playback makes it almost unwatchable.
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I agree…why does the very company who makes the OS not provide an unistaller for their own apps? Huge oversight IMO. Reinstalls in the case of problems are hit or miss because you can’t guarantee that a loose file is still floating around.
Also, a “decompose” feature like AVID is sorely missed, and one that works with Quicktime movies, PICTs etc.
Sorry, no link, but I had to rant.
Rich Rubasch
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If you have an old version of cleaner 6.0 or so, it uses the Windows Media 7 engine. Can’t believe they are requesting that because it makes awful encodes.
Don’t think you’ll have any proble m with the audio.
You could also bring AVI’s over to A PC and use the Windows encoder.
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If you have QT Pro open the HD clip…export to PhotoJPEG at 75%. Dont scale it. Did you try this and it too crashed? DO NOT use compressor to make the PhotoJPEG clip…use Quicktime…then use compressor to make the finalo encode from the PhotoJPEG clip.
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If that’s the case and since you are going to end up with an MPEG4 clip anyway, why not take the whopping huge full rez 1080 HD clip and convert it first to PhotoJPEG at 75% which would make it WAY smaller, and encode that to your final clip. You might even find you will be able to backup that PhotoJPEG clip for future use in encoding.
PhotoJPEG would certainly stand up to the downconvert and subsequent encode to MP4 and compresssor would have no problem using the clip.
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In these cases to troubleshoot the issue, I will sometimes try encoding a smaller portion of the clip, maybe 30 seconds or so and see if it still bails at the end…if so it’s not the size of the clip.
Rich Rubasch
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