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Compressor Cluster gives error message when trying to attach Caption (.scc) files - 13 years ago
Hello, We have a 3 XServer Cluster controlled by a 4'th XServer (Our FCServer machine). My workflow is: Source Video: 1920X1080 ProRes Video (28:30min) Resized to 640X360 ProRes LT (also de interlaced and some black restore and sharpening applied here) Encoded 640X360 to H.264 at 750Kb.Sec - .scc files defines in "Additional Information" tab in Compressor at this point. Thisby nveer - Compressor - Media Compression and Conversion
How to Force Baseline in Compressor - 13 years ago
I am encoding videos for a podcast. Naturally I want to make sure it is playable on all the apple devices. I had been using a slightly modified version of the standard iPod setting that comes in Compressor. However, it seemed like overkill. I knew I could achieve the same or better quality at a lesser data rate if I went with y own H.264 settings from scratch. The problem I'm running intoby nveer - Compressor - Media Compression and Conversion
Re: Video Compression Recipes Free Webinar - Come Learn + Free Prizes! - 13 years ago
Did this webinar get recorded and placed online anywhere for on-demand viewing?by nveer - News and Announcements
Sound Track Pro Alternative - 13 years ago
Hi everyone, As much as I love SoundTrack Pro, especially it's ability to be automated, since moving to HD it crashes and fails to finish saving more than not. I'm looking for alternatives. Apps on my list are ProTools (don't like real time bounces though) Peak Logic Nuendo Cubase T-Racks My one big issue is that SoundTrack Pro seams to be the only app that lets me import a .mov fby nveer - Café LA
SoundTrack Pro Can't save error - 13 years ago
My Work flow: Source video = ProRes HQ QuickTime file stored on a Fiber attached XSAN I drop the Quicktime file (stereo audio) into Sound Track Pro. -Adjust audio levels and do some mild dynamic compression Choose "File/Save as" and ad an "a" at the end for the file to signify new audio levels Confirm that the file needs to be flattened. STP goes through the saviby nveer - Café LA
SoundTrack Pro "This Document could not be saved" error - 13 years ago
My Work flow: Source video = ProRes HQ QuickTime file stored on a Fiber attached XSAN I drop the Quicktime file (stereo audio) into Sound Track Pro. -Adjust audio levels and do some mild dynamic compression Choose "File/Save as" and ad an "a" at the end for the file to signify new audio levels Confirm that the file needs to be flattened. STP goes through the saviby nveer - Soundtrack Pro
Compressor's Noise Reduction: anybody actually use it? - 14 years ago
So I've been using Compressor for some time now and consider myself an advanced user. Most of the source footage I encode looks great and is fun to work with. Then there's those pieces that you get that require some work before you encode them. I've been using JES Video Cleaner and Neat Noise Reduction with a good bit of success for noise removal. But both are pretty slow. I've never hadby nveer - Café LA
Re: Matrox Compress HD either on Mac or PC Chapters Markers dont work .... - 14 years ago
Do we know if they included multipass encoding with these new drivers?by nveer - Compressor - Media Compression and Conversion
Re: 1080p30 vs 1080i60 - 14 years ago
While I appreciate the time you took Jeff to explain the details of Film vs digital Video, that was not the question I was asking. You also didn't explain why you feel you should never shoot at 1080p30. I ask this question in light of a daily TV show I work on. It is a talk show. We recently upgraded to HD cameras and the decisions was made to shoot in 1080i60. The reason for doing thisby nveer - Café LA
1080p30 vs 1080i60 - 14 years ago
I want to open this "hot can of worms" one more time as it seems there is a good bit of unnecessary confusion and I want to make sure I'm thinking right. I've been told that 1080i (at 60 fps) looks like video and 1080p (at 30 fps) looks like Film. My understanding is that regardless of resolution (1080, 720 or 480 for that matter) the film vs video look is achieved more by the frameby nveer - Café LA
Re: Matrox CompressHD for Mac - Now Shipping! - 14 years ago
So I finally got to the bottom of this. Matrox has not yet developed their software to include the ability to recognize scene changes on it's own. Compressor currently has the ability to analyze the source footage and recognize scene changes and insert a Keyframe there. Pretty major issue if you ask me. If all you're doing is testing a 2 min clip of the same basic footage then the car willby nveer - News and Announcements
Re: Product Review: Matrox CompressHD races to the H.264 finish line - 14 years ago
So I finally got to the bottom of this. Matrox has not yet developed their software to include the ability to recognize scene changes on it's own. Compressor currently has the ability to analyze the source footage and recognize scene changes and insert a Keyframe there. Pretty major issue if you ask me. If all you're doing is testing a 2 min clip of the same basic footage then the car willby nveer - News and Announcements
Re: Product Review: Matrox CompressHD races to the H.264 finish line - 14 years ago
Well I've been testing this card for some time now. I've been in touch with their engineers. In fact I had a conference call with their entire development staff including a gentleman names Jean Lapierre the head of development for Mac. They were very gracious and kind and even offered to take a look at my original settings and create a custom setting that would kick out the same specs as whatby nveer - News and Announcements
Re: Matrox CompressHD for Mac - Now Shipping! - 14 years ago
Well I've been testing this card for some time now. I've been in touch with their engineers. In fact I had a conference call with their entire development staff including a gentleman names Jean Lapierre the head of development for Mac. They were very gracious and kind and even offered to take a look at my original settings and create a custom setting that would kick out the same specs as whatby nveer - News and Announcements
Re: Matrox CompressHD for Mac - Now Shipping! - 14 years ago
I just got one of these and am putting it to the test on my daily encodes. I currently encode a daily Tv show that i receive at 720X486 ProRes(HQ) and encode to an H.264 Flash file at 432X324 at 550 K/Sec. Using COmpressor Only I'm getting very satisfying results. So far, the speed of the CompressHD has been awesome, but I am unable to achieve similar quality to what I'm getting with Compressoby nveer - News and Announcements
Re: Ken Block Gymkhana 2 - 15 years ago
Great job cutting this! I had to rewind a few times and pay attention to the cuts as I missed them the first time around. That is exactly what you want. You did a great job here!by nveer - Show and Tell
Audio Compressor Meters - 15 years ago
Hi everyone, I'm throwing this out there incase there's something I simply don't know about. I would love to have visible meters when I'm applying a compressor filter to the audio of my video. I can drop a compressor on it and mess with the settings, but I can't see how many db I'm actually compressing. Does anyone know of a 3'd part plug in or anything, really that would allow me to have vby nveer - Café LA
Re: Compressor-Resize and pre-encode results in weird Color switching during playback - 15 years ago
I'm going to try that for sure. I always thought that was only needed if you were changing the frame rate. Am I mistaken?by nveer - Café LA
Re: Compressor-Resize and pre-encode results in weird Color switching during playback - 15 years ago
Interesting. What I can't figure out is if I encode it in something other than Compressor, MpegStreamclip or even something like HandBrake it doesn't show up. It's only in Compressor.by nveer - Café LA
Re: Compressor-Resize and pre-encode results in weird Color switching during playback - 15 years ago
Ok so here's a link to the video showing the color switch. video: It happens right at: 00:00:25:18 Here's a snapshot of my frame controls settings I used on it Here's a screenshot of the Brightness/Contrast Settings I used. Does that help at all? I'm not sure I completely understood your question(s), so I tried to post my settings in hopes that it will help answer them. Thby nveer - Café LA
Re: Compressor-Resize and pre-encode results in weird Color switching during playback - 15 years ago
Thanks for your response! I haven't noticed a muddiness. It's more than a gamma switch too as the color tone or temperature of the picture flips from a warm color to a cold yellowy tone. Someone mentioned it could be that it is flip flopping in the deinterlace process from top to bottom etc.... That almost makes sense, except I'm not sure what I would do to combat that. Can you shed anby nveer - Café LA
Re: Compressor-Resize and pre-encode results in weird Color switching during playback - 15 years ago
Ok so I take it back. I thought it was the Noise Reduction Filter, but now it's still doing it. It seems to be the Color (mid tones) filter that is doing it. So no one else has run into this? I'm using the ProRes codec now for my pre-encoding work. Looks much better. Thanks.by nveer - Café LA
Re: Compressor-Resize and pre-encode results in weird Color switching during playback - 15 years ago
Thanks for the questions. I'll do my best to answer them. I receive an mpeg IMX tape that I capture in FCP at 8bit uncompressed via a Kona 3 card. The footage is from a DVD product which we produce and sell. So it's definitely legal. It is also been through post production and ready for distribution. I then export that video from FCP as a Quicktime (uncompressed 8 bit) file to then proby nveer - Café LA
Re: Compressor-Resize and pre-encode results in weird Color switching during playback - 15 years ago
Well, I guess that's one way to help. Don't want to make this a personal disagreement, but there's a huge community on this forum that take broadcast material and make it available via web. No offense to you but I think I'll hold out for someone else to respond to this post as I always get awesome help here and try to contribute as well. Hope I haven't offended you, but I think we're cominby nveer - Café LA
Re: Compressor-Resize and pre-encode results in weird Color switching during playback - 15 years ago
The video I get has already been edited, comped, overlayed with graphics, and color corrected. It's broadcast ready. I mentioned above that this is usually distributed on a DVD for Sale. I am working on a version that would allow the customer to download the file instead of wait for a DVD to be mailed to them. They key here is that what I'm doing is not video color correction. It's pre-proby nveer - Café LA
Re: Compressor-Resize and pre-encode results in weird Color switching during playback - 15 years ago
I'm not as much doing color correction as I am prep work for encoding. I'm also not working ot of FInalcut except to capture my video. I'm strictly talk about encoding material here. So to put it into "Color" would be way too much detail and control for what I'm doing. I'm basically wanting to get the video to the point that the encoder will do a better job of it. My current workflby nveer - Café LA
Re: Compressor-Resize and pre-encode results in weird Color switching during playback - 15 years ago
I may have overcomplicated my explaining. Basically the idea behind what I'm doing is to first do all of my resizing, cropping and "tweaking" to the video, then encode it to an H.264 encoded mp4 file. So it's a 2 step process. By doing my color adjustments as well as all the other filtering, first I'm hoping to feed the encoder a better video. One that is easier to encode. Do youby nveer - Café LA
Re: Compressor-Resize and pre-encode results in weird Color switching during playback - 15 years ago
Would the codec be at faulty? Should I be using a JPEG export on this original file?by nveer - Café LA
Compressor-Resize and pre-encode results in weird Color switching during playback - 15 years ago
Hi everyone, I've returned to the smartet forum I know of. Currently I am working on a project. The end goal is to have a video file Approx 1.2 gigs (give or take). The video will be made available for download as a purchase. The videos is currently available for purchase on a DVD which is mailed to the client. I am currently working on cropping the original footage (Captured 8 bit uncoby nveer - Café LA
Re: Resize in Compressor or FCP? - 15 years ago
Dude, what a gret article and a great example. I've been sizing and encoding all at once. I have been using frame controls which made a big difference, but seeing your example has re-inspired me to use a two step process again. I encode a daily tv show, so time is of the essence. I have a cluster with: 8Core Mac Pro 5 Dual Processor G5's and a Dual G4 tower Typically I capture my oby nveer - Café LA
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