Apple TV HD encode

I have a large amount of different format HD clips that have been shot on a variety of cameras from HV20 to HDCam. Most are 1080i29.97 but some are the HV20 1080 24p mode and some are 720p30.
I need to convert them all to be played without jerkyness on apple TV in 720p24 I've been told that 720p25 also works but not sure about that.
Any ideas are greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Hi Bonzo
In this instance don't worry about FCP and MPEG Streamclip, you should be able to do all you want in Compressor. Use the *Apple > Apple Devices > H.264 for Apple TV* preset and the result should be exactly what you are looking for.
You might also want to trawl the AppleTV forum for some more targeted and Apple TV savvy advice
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1185
Hope it helps
Andy

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Apple mail attachment encoding problem

I'm having the problem lately that either attachments aren't being decoded properly and the source is displayed in the email or that the entire email is being displayed like this:
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Content-Type: text/plain;
charset=ISO-8859-1;
delsp=yes;
format=flowed
FYI
--Apple-Mail-7--951337123
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x-mac-type=584C5338;
x-unix-mode=0744;
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Content-Disposition: attachment;
filename=report.xls
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We have the same problems with UTF-8 encoded mails. If I select the Inbox, then select Mailbox -> Rebuild it fixes it, but I need a better solution to fix this. Several others are having the same problem and it seems to be happenning intermittently.
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duren wrote:
Some of my clients cannot open these inline images.
This clients use presumably Outlook 2007. It's not your or Apple Mail's fault, it's a known bug in Outlook 2007 and there is also a Microsoft Help and Support Article from April 2007 about that issue.
Here -> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/917120
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Apple Mail cannot encoding issues (Chinese Asian Language)

I've abandon Mail for almost 2 years, 2 issues I had before is the 'disappearing mail' and the encoding problem.
Now with my new MBP 17" I decided to use Mail again. I am getting the encoding problem again.
Things I tried already:
1. set the default encoding using Terminal to "BIG5"
2. check under 'Composing' preference for 'Plain Text', uncheck 'use the same message format as the original message'
3. Tried manually setting the encoding before sending. But in few instance Apple Mail tells me that there is an Error and cannot change the encoding. Even I succeeded in changing the encoding, there is no guarantee that the other side can read it properly.
This usually happens when I 'reply' or 'forward' a Chinese email to someone. So far it happens to the HTML type email.
Still I am getting problem sending mail that Outlook can properly decode by itself. To fix this from the Oulook side, they need to open the message by double click, select encoding for the message, and pick either UTF-8 or BIG5 (if the message is BIG5, select UTF-8 and vise versa) then the message will display properly.
I know this could be an Outlook problem (probably is) but I cannot tell my customer to change encoding each time. I really need a way to do this from the Apple Mail side.
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In-Reply-To: <050201c7154d$3fa791c0$bcdd123d@SN012345678912>
References: <[email protected]> <050201c7154d$3fa791c0$bcdd123d@SN012345678912>
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X-Priority: 3
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
boundary=Apple-Mail-1--121729776
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=?BIG5?B?S0VOLkpJQbjrvuWoyA==?= <[email protected]>,
"Viv Lee" <[email protected]>,
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=?BIG5?B?RWR3aW5ZYW+rwKWuxe8=?= <[email protected]>,
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From: James Yao <[email protected]>
Subject: =?BIG5?B?UmU6IMRftdizbqT7pdarfr3osN3DRA==?=
Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2006 07:42:27 +0800
To: =?BIG5?B?vki0ZqzCIEpvYW4gVGFuZw==?= <[email protected]>
--Apple-Mail-1--121729776
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset=BIG5;
delsp=yes;
format=flowed
Hi xxxx...... (body of the message)
I need help here, I still like the operation in Apple Mail but this is killing me. Please help.

Thanks but I tried these already. Didn't seem to work.
I switched to Thunderbird. Took a while to convert my mailboxes (30+ of them) from emlx to mbox and loaded into Thunderbird.
Thunderbird is ok, address book really ***** since it doesn't work with the OSX Address book at all. I had to use vcf2ldif to convert address book but the Chinese character in the Address Book all became ??? in Thunderbird. And the time it takes to convert 400+ address is long (I already filtered the address book from my 1000+ contact)
Font setting in Thunderbird is not good as well. Emails in my folders are in different fonts all the time due to the difference in encoding. I just need to get used to it.
If Apple Mail can just handle encoding better, I will never switch. Both my customer and my family are having same problem, (because we all read/send Chinese Traditional email) Apple should do something. Already send email regarding this to Apple, and if there are other people with the same problem as me, pleas let Apple know about this.

Changing Apple Mail default encoding to unicode

Is it possible to change the mail default encoding to Unicode (UTF-8)?
thanks

BlueBird1958 wrote:
after sending my mails, they become unreadable symbols.
What does that mean? Are the recipients unable to read them? Or are you talking about how they look on your machine, for example in the Sent folder of Mail app?
Normally Hebrew would always be sent in Unicode.
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Encoding error on Apple Pro Res file

Hi All,
New to PP and Media Encoder
Trying to encode an HD file to H264 from an Pro Res source (inserted is mediacoder info) using H264. It is throwing an error at the same place (a couple of minutes into the sequence). I am using Adobe Media encoder. I've tried to export to mpeg and AVI and same error. No clues in the error log " Export Error Error compiling movie.    Unknown error."   Also no visible artifacts or issues when viewing the sequence in PP. It plays right through...
I've resaved the file in QT Pro and same problem. I am also using TMPGENC and it also errors in that software as well at the same place. The error log is a bit more robust in TMPGENC and says the "faulty module is the AppleProResDecoder.qtx" and includes faulting adresss...
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Any suggestions??
Thanks
General
Complete name                            : G:\aa\OLN_SPAN_1009.mov
Format                                   : MPEG-4
Format profile                           : QuickTime
Codec ID                                 : qt
File size                                : 71.1 GiB
Duration                                 : 1h 31mn
Overall bit rate mode                    : Variable
Overall bit rate                         : 112 Mbps
Encoded date                             : UTC 2007-10-09 18:40:59
Tagged date                              : UTC 2013-06-13 14:52:30
Writing library                          : Apple QuickTime
©TSC                                     : 24
©TSZ                                     : 1
Video
ID                                       : 20
Format                                   : ProRes
Format version                           : Version 0
Codec ID                                 : apcn
Duration                                 : 1h 31mn
Bit rate mode                            : Variable
Bit rate                                 : 106 Mbps
Width                                    : 1 920 pixels
Height                                   : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio                     : 16:9
Frame rate mode                          : Constant
Frame rate                               : 23.976 fps
Color space                              : YUV
Chroma subsampling                       : 4:2:2
Scan type                                : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)                       : 2.122
Stream size                              : 67.2 GiB (94%)
Writing library                          : Apple
Language                                 : English
Encoded date                             : UTC 2008-01-13 23:14:32
Tagged date                              : UTC 2008-01-13 23:14:32
Color primaries                          : BT.709
Transfer characteristics                 : BT.709
Matrix coefficients                      : BT.709
Audio #1
ID                                       : 2
Format                                   : PCM
Format settings, Endianness              : Big
Format settings, Sign                    : Signed
Codec ID                                 : twos
Duration                                 : 1h 31mn
Bit rate mode                            : Constant
Bit rate                                 : 768 Kbps
Channel(s)                               : 1 channel
Sampling rate                            : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth                                : 16 bits
Stream size                              : 501 MiB (1%)
Language                                 : English
Encoded date                             : UTC 2007-10-09 18:40:59
Tagged date                              : UTC 2007-10-10 01:22:03
Audio #2
ID                                       : 3
Format                                   : PCM
Format settings, Endianness              : Big
Format settings, Sign                    : Signed
Codec ID                                 : twos
Duration                                 : 1h 31mn
Bit rate mode                            : Constant
Bit rate                                 : 768 Kbps
Channel(s)                               : 1 channel
Sampling rate                            : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth                                : 16 bits
Stream size                              : 501 MiB (1%)
Language                                 : English
Encoded date                             : UTC 2007-10-09 18:40:59
Tagged date                              : UTC 2007-10-10 01:22:03
Audio #3
ID                                       : 4
Format                                   : PCM
Format settings, Endianness              : Big
Format settings, Sign                    : Signed
Codec ID                                 : twos
Duration                                 : 1h 31mn
Bit rate mode                            : Constant
Bit rate                                 : 768 Kbps
Channel(s)                               : 1 channel
Sampling rate                            : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth                                : 16 bits
Stream size                              : 501 MiB (1%)
Language                                 : English
Encoded date                             : UTC 2007-10-09 18:40:59
Tagged date                              : UTC 2007-10-10 01:22:03
Audio #4
ID                                       : 5
Format                                   : PCM
Format settings, Endianness              : Big
Format settings, Sign                    : Signed
Codec ID                                 : twos
Duration                                 : 1h 31mn
Bit rate mode                            : Constant
Bit rate                                 : 768 Kbps
Channel(s)                               : 1 channel
Sampling rate                            : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth                                : 16 bits
Stream size                              : 501 MiB (1%)
Language                                 : English
Encoded date                             : UTC 2007-10-09 18:40:59
Tagged date                              : UTC 2007-10-10 01:22:03
Audio #5
ID                                       : 6
Format                                   : PCM
Format settings, Endianness              : Big
Format settings, Sign                    : Signed
Codec ID                                 : twos
Duration                                 : 1h 31mn
Bit rate mode                            : Constant
Bit rate                                 : 768 Kbps
Channel(s)                               : 1 channel
Sampling rate                            : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth                                : 16 bits
Stream size                              : 501 MiB (1%)
Language                                 : English
Encoded date                             : UTC 2007-10-09 18:40:59
Tagged date                              : UTC 2007-10-10 01:22:03
Audio #6
ID                                       : 7
Format                                   : PCM
Format settings, Endianness              : Big
Format settings, Sign                    : Signed
Codec ID                                 : twos
Duration                                 : 1h 31mn
Bit rate mode                            : Constant
Bit rate                                 : 768 Kbps
Channel(s)                               : 1 channel
Sampling rate                            : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth                                : 16 bits
Stream size                              : 501 MiB (1%)
Language                                 : English
Encoded date                             : UTC 2007-10-09 18:40:59
Tagged date                              : UTC 2007-10-10 01:22:03
Audio #7
ID                                       : 8
Format                                   : PCM
Format settings, Endianness              : Big
Format settings, Sign                    : Signed
Codec ID                                 : twos
Duration                                 : 1h 31mn
Bit rate mode                            : Constant
Bit rate                                 : 768 Kbps
Channel(s)                               : 1 channel
Sampling rate                            : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth                                : 16 bits
Stream size                              : 501 MiB (1%)
Language                                 : English
Encoded date                             : UTC 2007-10-09 18:40:59
Tagged date                              : UTC 2007-10-10 01:22:03
Audio #8
ID                                       : 9
Format                                   : PCM
Format settings, Endianness              : Big
Format settings, Sign                    : Signed
Codec ID                                 : twos
Duration                                 : 1h 31mn
Bit rate mode                            : Constant
Bit rate                                 : 768 Kbps
Channel(s)                               : 1 channel
Sampling rate                            : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth                                : 16 bits
Stream size                              : 501 MiB (1%)
Language                                 : English
Encoded date                             : UTC 2007-10-09 18:40:59
Tagged date                              : UTC 2007-10-10 01:22:03
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ID                                       : 10
Type                                     : Time code
Format                                   : QuickTime TC
Duration                                 : 1h 31mn
Time code of first frame                 : 00:58:30:00
Time code settings                       : Striped
Language                                 : English
Encoded date                             : UTC 2007-10-10 01:22:03
Tagged date                              : UTC 2007-10-10 01:22:03

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Solution to Gamma/Color Shift Problems with Apple Codecs - Adobe BUG

Hi....
In AfterEffects when choosing an output module and that module be ProRes or 10 Bit Uncompressed,
when trying to color manage the file, there is a fine line called
'This Codec Does Not Support Output Profile'
You can find it int he Color Management Pane of the output module....
Funny thing is - That Profile Embedding IS support by:#
Apple's Compressor and THE CODEC 4444 AND UnCompressed
Episodes Encoder
See following Screen Shots:
First one from Apple's Compressor...
Look at that little beautiful Color Option... Adobe did you MISS that one, perhaps...
You must have - because your APPS are NOT including that when encoding or should I say
butchering movie files....
Here adobes famous but wrong dialog!!!!
And in this next screen shot you can easily see that adobe just strips the color profile out of the file...
AND THAT IS WHY THERE IS A COLOR SHIFT...........
left image = Apple's Compressor Encoding (Colors match of course) - Right Adobe's BRUTAL encoding (Colors WONT match...)
Now, in after effects you wont notice the shift. But ALL mac and PC users using quicktime to watch YOUR movies
are going to be looking at a movie with a different look than you thought it WOULD be... Courtesy of adobe ;-)
Jokes aside, Adobe.... It seems as if this one is on you to fix... Apple's Compressor has NO problems. And other encoders are also preserving those values.
Now... Let us assume that I encode in compressor... Looks are matching 100% that of the original source. All it takes to mess that up is ONE
roundtrip to after effects, premiere pro or Media Encoder. That is if I wanna maintain my initial choice of transcodec - in my case 4444 or 10bit Uncomp.
I could of course export to animation and then use compressor AGAIN to transcode to my format of choice... But in the long run I think that will become tedious.
Perhaps you could assign a few engineers on this one and in the future spend MORE time on living up to the name PRO(The most misused word in the software business) instead of wasting time generating new Application icons for your apps....
Thanks for reading and for a PROMPT and near-future BUG FIX

Mylenium wrote:
It's not really "embedding" anything, it merely sets the QT color space flags which have been there forever, but are mostly unused. Specific to ProRes it also toggles different internal optimizations in the encoding. That's also documented somewhere on the QT developer pages. I'm not sure I share your views otherwise. The point really is, that Apple developed ProRes just as much as a closed workflow within their products as Avid did with their CoDecs. Therefore the widespread use of the CoDecs is merely a byproduct of the use of the products, but not per se an intended workflow outside of those and, which is the more important part, also not explicable as a causal circumstance of the quality. If I may be so bold: What you are saying sounds like everyone would be using the Animation CoDec because it is so good, when the simple fact is that there are no decent free cross-platform alternatives and people are willing to accept limitations because of that. Don't get me wrong, ProRes is well designed and pretty robust, but the world doesn't come to an end without it and outside the Mac world it is difficult to deal with. Hell, it's even difficult to deal with between different versions of FCP occasionally...
Mylenium
I have been testing codecs for a long long looooooong time. My criterion(s) are:
1) Image Quality and that through multiple encoding generations and color grading
THEEEN
a looooong way down the road
2) Performance
BTW - I find that working with files less compressed and thus HUGE is much better. Hard drives are so cheap that one can build himself an 8 Disk RAID0 and that takes care of everything. In PPRO I can cut real time in FulRes with an uncompressed codec with the processors maxing at 3% while the H264 editing sequence will stutter like a drunken wasp and maxing the CPUs at 63%.... Go figure...
ProRes 4444's impeccable imageQuality:performance ratio, is unbeaten.
Especially on H264 material like that of the Canon5D. You might say if the source is 4:2:0 why bother upping it to 4444... Well in theory perhaps
it is overkill. But rather than reading in theoretical white papers I conduct my own tests. And the end results are (REALITY) and way different from what theory states. TO anyone reading this. DONT believe ANYTHING you read about codec nor what I am saying.... DO YOUR OWN TESTING and judge for yourself. Problem is that you have to do 100's and 100's of transcodings with ONE source to various destinations with lost of grading and transcoding generation. THEN you have to keep track of your tests and THEN compare them. It takes WEEKs. But it is well worth while it. In my case... I start with a Canon5DMKII H264 movies. Transcode it to PRORES4444 then I do LOTS of compositing and re-encoding then lots of color grading etc etc etc. Then I export back to H264 - and the end result is STUNNING has NO artifacts and is adorable to look at. Not so with at least 6 other codecs claiming to be top-notch....
Sure Mylenium, the world would NOT end with PR4444 not in it... BUT the WORLD has ALREADY decided that it WANTED ProRes4444 in it. It is growing and that every day..........
Had the codec not been so darn excellent - it would NOT have been used. Period.

Photos are split in 2 files when sent by Apple Mai, why?

Anybody encountered the same problem?
if sending a photo by mail, my web.de account would show the recieved email with 2 files instead of one!!
Also if I send photos to my msn.com account, there appears the same phenomenon.
I can't open these 2 files with my Windows Pc, but if loading them to my Powerbook, I can open one file (the photo) but the other file would appear as a thumbnail and can't be opened by any program.
What's odd:
if I send a photo with apple mail in connection with iphoto, there would appear the same problem if choosing the original size of the photo.
BUT if I choose another size (big, or small for example) the
email arrives without any phenomenon. The photo is usable also in my Windows Pc then.
Another strange thing:
I use Apple mail/ entourage (on my Apple) for recieving emails. So if I send a photo with original size to myself (as an experiment) the programs actually show only 1 file as it should be. (Remember: the web.de account and the msn.com account would show the same email with 2 files instead!)
If loading the photo (any photo) manually by my web.de account and sending it with the web.de account the email would appear in every case with the one file (photo) as it should arrive.
Does Apple Mail have encoding problems? And why does my entourage program have the exactly the same problem???
Why doees the problem disappear if I change the photo size with iphoto in connection with Apple mail / entourage?

I have to add something:
the two files the photo is split to are:
1) the bigger one is the jpeg file, the photo itself.
2) the smaller one is a TIFF file, which can be only displayed if loaded to my Powerbook. Its a miniature view / icon of the jpeg photo.
On the Windows Pc both files can't be displayed!
The pictures were taken with my Canon IXUS 800 IS and were imported through iphoto.
Another important thing I discovered:
Other photos, taken by other digicams make no trouble when sent by Apple mail or Entourage, ...
Anybody has an idea how to fix this?

My iDvd will not burn a disc...there is an encoding error that comes up after the title screen

Like it says in the title...My iDvd will not burn a disc...there is an encoding error that comes up after the title screen.
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1. put in a blank disk and with the project already being done, i hit burn (not too hard).
2. iDvd then starts to encode the title.
3. After the title has been encoded, the burning stops and a message comes up saying "there was an error during encoding" and when ever I try to burn the same message keeps on coming up.
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Try using this workflow:
Once you have the project as you want it save it as a disk image via the File ➙ Save as Disk Image menu option. This will separate the encoding process from the burn process.
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Read these posts by Bengt Wärleby. One of them may have helpful info:
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I am using idvd and i keep getting the...: Apple Support Communities
encoding video error: Apple Support Communities
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Change apple-id in App-store?

I had to change my apple-id, but the app-store continues to us my old apple-id. How can I change it? Updates and new apps I download with the appstore allways are registred with my old apple-id. Thats a big problem, because I have forgotten the safetycode.

If you sold your Mac to a stranger or friend, before doing so, your obligation, as per Apple and the Terms of Use for OS X and any apps that you bought (free & paid) from the Mac App Store, is to erase the Mac and install the latest version of the version of Mac OS X that originally shipped on the Mac. If it was OS X Snow Leopard 10.6 or earlier that shipped from the factory on the Mac, you should use the Install DVDs that came with the Mac and reinstall Snow Leopard and then install the latest update combo. If it was OS X Lion 10.7 or later that shipped from the factory on the Mac, you should use OS X Recovery which will install the most recent version of OS X that shipped on the Mac from the factory.
What to do before selling or giving away your Mac
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5189
If you recieve a used Mac and this has not been done, you are in receipt of pirated software that you will never be able to update without the Apple ID of the previous owner. The Apple ID is encoded in the licensed copies of the software installed on the Mac, it is in the software's DNA and cannot be legally changed.

Logic/iTunes MP3 Encoder & Soundcheck Phenomenon

I'm noticing something weird happening when listening to either the CDs I import or the tracks I bounce from Logic on my iPod when soundcheck is enabled.
When I directly choose a song to listen to, the volume is decreased a whole lot, but if I choose the immediately previous song and click "next" or "skip track" into the song, it'll be blasting very loud. If I click "previous track" from the next song into it, it'll still play very soft. Now, I'm wondering why this is happening only with my iTunes imports and my bounces from Logic and not other tracks. They play loud and fine everywhere else (CDs, web players, etc). Is it a setting in Apple's Mp3 encoder? Can anyone help me understand what's going on with what seems to be sorcery? Thanks.

the only thing I can think of is the clicking "next" or "skip track" skips the ID3 tag for some reason, perhaps clicking skip or next purposely does not read from the beginning of the file so as to avoid a click or pop.
The Sonar w/LAME encoder does not include ID3 info so there's no normalization.
Another example of possibly doing a bit too much for the user. You don't want to use Sound Check anyway, why would you want everything at or close to the same volume?
Sound Check - Sound Check is a feature of iTunes, that can be used on the iPod, that normalizes the volume of the songs in your iTunes library. Because songs are recorded at different volumes and with different technologies over time, the volume that they play back at can be different. Sound Check scans your iTunes library and attempts to bring the volume of all songs in it into rough equivalence. It does this by scanning the playback volume of songs in the library and adjusting the "normalization information" ID3 tag for the song.
Sound Check does not actually change the volume of the orignal song.
Sound Check can be used with iPod playback as well. As long as it is enabled in iTunes, the Sound Check-enhanced songs will transfer to the iPod and play at a roughly equal volume.
Sound Check can be applied to MP3, AAC, WAV, and AIFF files.

A PACK encoding - reduction of audio level

Hi all,
I always use the Apack Apple utility to encode all my audio mixes. I'm a professional sound designer and during the mix, i use a properly calibrated equipment.
All files are properly calibrated AND in phase.
Sometime i've find this following problem on my encoded stuff.
When i finish an audio encoding process i recheck the audiovideo playback through my dvdstudiopro 3.0 simulator and in some point in the video i can hear a strange "automatic" reduction of audio level, randomly, not in the part where the audio is hight. This happens also on the mastered file on dvd.
I would like to inform that my mix was controlled before goes to encoding session.
This is not a frequntly finded problem, just in rare case.
This is my setting for apack
Kbs 192 (stereo) 448 (DD)
compression none
Dialog norm -31 db
No low pass
No Rf over modulation
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Mark

All those settings look correct for A.Pack. One thing to check, however, is that your files are REALLY set to -31db for DNV. Open them back up in A.Pack and check (there's some option for File Info or somethingorother to display an AC3 file's settings). A.Pack has a very annoying bug where, if you type -31 in the field but you don't press Enter, the change does not happen and your files end up back at -27 (with the resulting "pumping" of audio).

SLLOWWWW encode for HDV to SD for DVD

I am now in the 2nd day of waiting compressor2.3 encode a 2 hour program I shot & edited in HDV.  I am outputting it for a SD DVD.  The longer I watch it encode the longer the time remaining grows and slower the encode process seems to be.
When I went to bed last night it was at 48% complete only to wake up this morning and it is now at 49%.
I set the encode tabs using the apple settings for encoding a 150 minute 16:9 video.  I believe it is a 2 pass setting. I am only processing the dolby 2.0 (which has completed) and the mpeg-2 vid.
I don't recall if I chose to de-interlace the video, but now on second thought if I did that may have been stupid because I'm not sure 1080i is interlaced...
My question or concern is, is this length on compression normal?  I haven't compressed a full HDV program before.  But even my longest SD compressions were under 24 hours.  I expected this to take a while but at this rate I am worried it won't be done until next Friday and then, who knows if it will have worked and I need to get it to a client by next week.
Thanks for your input.

FWIW, an improved FCS 2 (fcp - compressor) workflow with HDV content (I have a HVR-Z1P).
On advice from others and other forums, I do the following when working with FCP and HDV in FCS 2.
(option A) -
• import/ingest the footage as HDV.
• batch convert the HDV and RENAME the footage (from CAPTURE) in to APPLE PRORES 422 codec
• work the time line with output codec APPLE PRORES 422
• submit sequence (s) to COMPRESSOR (works fast)
• when finished, use MEDIA MANAGER to consolidate footage, and purge the HDV footage (if you have limited disk space)
(option b) -
• in FCP log the footage
• import the offline footage using APPLE PRORES 422
• work the project in APPLE PRORESS 422
• submit PRORES 422 sequqnces to COMPRESSOR
• watch cmopressor work this.
I dont have a tehnical explanation fort htis ony an optinion that for HDV to a MULTIPASS H.264 AVC transcode from FCP takes ages on this dual QUAD core (and worse on my old g5 QUAD).
Other methods you could try vary to taste.. THese are:
• from the HDV sequqnce - expoert a QUICKTIME REFERENCE MOVIE - sometimes is quick but most of the time takes ages... then
• set up a QMASTER VIRTUAL cluster with an instance for every two (2) cores you have on all machines in the cluster (plenty of info on this) in these forums. . On this octo, I have 4 x instances for example and one instance on each of the MBP's (unmanaged services).
• submit thereference movie to this compressor cluster.
Others have found better experience submittimg a SELF CONTAINED QUICKTIME movie as above.
post your results.

Apple trailer website

Hi guys,
When i view the movies trailers on the movies section of the apple main website, they look almost perfect quality. The compression used is excellent in getting very high quality and low file size. I have been informed they use the latest H264/avc apple codec to encode the movie files.
I have also been told that I can achieve the same quality as the apple trailers by using Quicktime Pro. So, I bought quicktim pro and have tried exporting media using the that same settings as the trailers online (I am getting the info on the data rate and file size from bringing up the info on the files from within quicktime)
Sadly the quality I get is good, but no where near as god as the ones apple put up online. I get slighty better results using Mac OSX than windows in saturation quality of output is more similar to the source file.
I wondered if anyone had any suggestions or suggested resourses or if anyone on these forums did this kind of media encoding professionally and had any suggestions.
Thanks
Duncthepunc

The control is the important piece. You could accomplish close to the same kind of thing with QuickTime Pro, maybe, if you spliced your video into sections and encoded each section with it's own parameters then brought all of that back into one movie.
The biggest problem your average home user is going to have is not having access to an uncompressed theatrical video to start with. Even the best looking DVD's are still compressed MPEG-2 and recompressing something that's already compressed always brings up issues that you wouldn't have if you were dealing with a series of high resolution .tiff files.
You're also right that the hardware solution doesn't do it better, just faster so that you don't have to wait a long time to see the results, tweak, then re-encode...especially for HD video (which it does real time).

Is their a "right way" to encode what I am importing?

g4 p-book 15 Mac OS X (10.4.5)

The right way will be whatever suits your needs. AAC format gives good quality small files if space on your hard drive is a priority and it is Apple's preferred encoder. MP3 is useful because it also provides small files but is more compatible than AAC if you have a) a portable player other than an iPod or b) an in-car player that will play CDs and MP3s. If you have lots of space you can import in the Aiff format your CDs are already in or for lossless encoded files that are around half the size of Aiff you can use Apple Lossless. In both cases these will give you better quality than AAC or MP3.
This two part article will give you some good comparison information:
AAC v MP3 Part One http://www.recordstorereview.com/misc/aacmp3part1.shtml
AAC v MP3 Part Two http://www.recordstorereview.com/misc/aacmp3part2.shtml
And this one on Choosing an audio format http://www.dbpoweramp.com/spoons-audio-guide-formats.htm

Why can only apple DVD player do so well?

This is a slow computer. Pismo laptop G3 500mhz. I don't understand why only Apples DVD player can play so well and at the same time use less than half the CPU. Trying to use any other player for DVD.s will result in skips and 100% CPU usage. Even when one plays any kind of movie file AVI , mov. etc with any compatible player, the computer at its best is at 100% usage and some performance issues. The difference between using apple's player for DVD ,s or video TS folders is so huge, that it can only be because of a well written code. Why did not others follow apple?

Region encoding is what the motion picture studios use to control the worldwide release of their movies. Apple limits the region change / settings to 5 times. The only way around this is to install a new motherboard....sorry.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=60183
Hope this info is Helpful.

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