Compressor help

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Maxpower76

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Hey guys,

Hope you all had a great holiday.

So here's the problem. I've shot on the HVX at 720 and outputted it from final cut as "Current Settings" quicktime and it looks great.

When I drag it into compressor and try to take it down to an Mpeg, it always looks grainy. I've tried Best encode 16:9 and fast 16:9 but both are pretty horrific. I used to use a PC and it never looked this bad on the output but a buudy of mine who uses the MAC said thats just the way downsampling works. Can't be true.

Is there a really good workflow anyone has that can go through the settings and show me just how to get the Best possible compression for a 45 minute video shot at 720pn 24fps on the HVX?

Thanks, this is killing me

Oh, anyone want to check out a commercial I did on the HVX it's here, lemme know what you think
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odyG0F8UM1A
 
Get this book, it's only about $23 and super good.

Apple Pro Training Series; Compressor Quick-Reference Guide

Most good news, there's a QuickTime Pro version of this book coming out sometime soon, also!
 
I guess I should have posted this on Output and Compression.

Ya the book sounds good, but anyone know anything I can use now? It's rendering as I write this...3 1/2 hours to go.
 
Why not just convert 2 or 3 minutes at a time? In Compressor you can set In and Out points and just encode between them? Then you could do a dozen different settings, encode them all at once, and it wouldn't take very long.

Downsampling is not great on any system. Also, consider your judging off different computer screens at vairous resolutions. Unless you are burnig a DVD and playing them all on the same TV set, you can't really judge any image quality.

So, for a 45 minute video, start with the Best 90 min 16:9 preset. Then you want to tweak it to your specific needs. The presets are just simple places to start. Never use them as is, unless you really do have a video that's exactly 90 minutes long.

So, in the Inspector window, under the Video Format tab, you want to set the "Video Format" drop down menu there to "Automatic SD", Rate at 23.98, and Aspect Ratio to 16:9.

In the Quality tab, you want your avg bit rate at 6, Max at 7, Two pass VBR Best, Motion Estimation Best. That's it.

Go back to the Setting drop down, go to Audio Formats, select Dolby 2.0, don't change anything in it, you're ready to encode.

You can also open the Preview window. Drag the In and Out pointers from the left and rigth edges to where you want them. Lower right corner shows the duration of what you've selected. Then you can encode only a couple of minutes. You can also get real time previews in the Preivew window. It's actually split so you see the original play back, with a pretty good estimation of your final product, side by side. You can slide where the split happens on the screen. Very cool.

I don't have the time to type up the whole set of instructions. But get the book, you'll be glad you did.
 
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