[Vincent Lynch]

it’s a taichi video (vol.53 – https://www.onehand.com/pages/volumes_53-54.html) so the motion is not as fast as one of my martial titles. I used the 2pass VBR setting at 6.2 average and 7.7 max. I used a bit rate calculator and got the following values: average value was 6.5 and 7.8 max. I thought the setting was well within the limits, ergo OK.
I was also thinking along the same lines as you in regard to it running out of steam aat the end. Vol.54 is 75 min, however, and the DVD size is 3.7G. This looks great. The 90min Compressor DVD default setting for Vol.53 was 3.7G and another version I did at the 120 min setting that looked better and it was 3.5G. This totally popped my theory balloon.

I’ll try the CBR 1 pass to see if there’s a difference, and I’ll respond with results
Thanks,

[Vincent Lynch]

Rafael,
I used the ac3(dolby) setting in the “encode” window in the Compressor audio settings window on all the titles.
I’m going back to the original timelime to export and repeat the process to see if I get a different result. This is in spite of the fact that the 422ProRes self contained movie version looks like it doesn’t have any flaws.
Thanks for responding.
with fingers crossed,

[Vincent Lynch]

Yes the compressed Mpeg-2 files have the negative artifact. I shot in 1080i and exported it to ProRes422. It’s self-contained and an enormous file. Looks great.

It’s an 86 min program. I first tried the 90 min DVD setting in Compressor and also the 120 min setting. The 120 had less video noise and the titles didn’t degrade as much.

Since I also did 3 other programs with exactly the same settings and they are perfect, it’s really weird. Titles are razor sharp. The only difference in the other programs was RT ranged from 60 to 75 min. With the 90 min Compressor setting they look great.

At this point tomorrow I’m going back to the timeline. I going to re-export it and repeat the process even though in the current version of the 422ProRes format looks flawless.