Frame Controls Settings

Hi,
I've made a FCP document captured in Sony HD1080i60. It's 22 min. in color.
Next I try to export this document using compressor.
My setting is at DVD Best Quality 90 min NTSC 29.97.
My QUESTION: Frame Controls.
Apparently, if Frame Controls, Resizing Filter and the Deinterlace is all chosen at 'Best', it will take 504 hours (according to the compressor).
If my objective is to have this played on anyone's home DVD player, is there much of a difference in quality? If anyone has any recommendation for my setting, please.
Thank you all in advance.
M

Mugiho
You can find the answer by yourself and tell us later: select just a very short section/s of your movie (15/20 secs) and encode it using different settings. Select some "potentially problematic" parts, like with fast movements, etc.
No matter how low could be the encoding, it will take a short time and you can compare the final quality.
Hope that helps !
Alberto

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However in the interests of getting a better result, I have been experimenting using the more sophisticated deinterlacing which can be accessed through the Frame Controls tab.
My SD source material is derived from DV Pal. I have switched to 'custom' and yet no matter what I adjust on this panel, it makes no difference to either the preview window or the final compressed file. It seems that these settings do not interlace at all!
Can anybody point out what I may have overlooked?
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One issue is that Compressor's preview window will not show the effects of the Frame Control settings. Preview only works for the filters and geometry settings (movie dimension).
I've tried Apple's new Frame Control deinterlace methods and while the highest quality setting can produce some interesting results I think I still prefer the look of the blur deinterlace filter on some subjects. The Frame Controls will produce sharper results but they can also run very slowly and the lower quality settings can introduce their own forms of artifacts.
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Well, I recently tried a test video (interlaced 4:3 DV) that I've used extensively to check Compressor 2. I used Compressor 3 on it to see if the Frame Controls could actually encode within a decent amount of time. I used the medium deinterlacing setting. It went faster than Compressor 2...but the output was far worse! In Compressor 2, it took longer, but it was excellent quality deinterlacing. Compressor 3 was terrible. Some motion was blurry/doubled, and there were chunks where no deinterlacing had been performed at all, as in I could still see the combing! What's going on here, Apple? Using the best setting in frame controls is useless unless you have a friggin' cluster or you have time to wait to collect social security, but at least medium still looked good, even if it took a long time. Now best still takes forever, but medium looks awful. I'm tempted to downgrade back to Compressor 2 after this.

Running Compressor 3.0.3 - In the Inspector window, click the third tab to get to "frame controls." Click the gear and use the drop down menu to turn the frame controls "on." It sounds like you did this, but I'm just making sure we're on the same page.
There is no "custom," I promise. Just turning frame controls on allows you to customize the settings and set the options you mentioned. To be literal, the settings mentioned are
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Anyone else that has used frame controls on their presets notice that the new version is much different?
I am compressing HD source to MPEG2 for SD-DVD. I have always used FRAME CONTROLS in my presets because of the beautiful quality that I was able to get.
Now, all that quality is gone and I can seem to get the same look as before.
Anyone have any ideas?

Brian Gary wrote:
Were you encoding into DV NTSC and/or did you try ProRes and the output media. Just wondering if there's a difference in a less compressed codec.
In the screenshots above, yes, I was only encoding to/from DV NTSC.
But I did get a chance to experiment with some ProRes stuff just now.
Original file (640x360, 30 fps with Lower Field First; Field Rendering enabled) exported out of Motion 4 as ProRes4444.
The file was dropped into Compressor and flagged as Bottom-Field First.
Converted to ProRes 422 HQ (Interlaced) using the Compressor 3.5 preset (No Frame Controls engaged)
Converted to ProRes 422 HQ (Progressive) using the Compressor 3.5 preset (Frame Controls engaged - adjusted for Progressive output, Deinterlace to Better)
Converted to ProRes 422 HQ Interlaced using the Compressor 3.5 preset but resized to 480x270 without Frame Controls
Converted to ProRes 422 HQ Interlaced using the Compressor 3.5 preset but resized to 480x270 with Frame Controls (Only switched them On - adjusted no other settings)
Converted to ProRes 422 HQ Interlaced using the Compressor 3.5 preset but resized to 480x270 with Frame Controls (Set Deinterlace to Better instead of the default Fast)
Edited to add: I suspect the issue is tied to progressive material as anytime I go interlaced-to-interlaced (but resizing with Frame Controls) Compressor 3.5 doesn't do a bad job. But progressive-to-progressive (or interlaced-to-progressive) spells disaster with Frame Controls. <sigh>

***AUTOMATIC FRAME CONTROLS

If you use a preset in Compressor, the frame controls are automatic for the most part.
Quick Question:
Should you manually turn off frame controls when working with progressive footage?
The reason I ask is because I already noticed in the quality of the footage and by running various tests that when you use one of the DVD presets for progressive video, the field dominance doesn't correctly change to progressive when you have it set on automatic, and I just don't want the automatic frame controls to do any automatic deinterlacing if it doesn't recognize the progressive attributes.
Thoughts?
Thank you.

I would set it manually or turn it off. If you want a progressive output, remember that you might also need to set the field order to Progressive under the Encoder tab under *Video Format* on your MPEG-2 (m2v) setting.
If you do not deinterlace with Compressor, a DVD-player or LCD-TV will do it anyway in real-time, which most likely will look pretty bad. Also be aware that the Apple DVD Player application does automatic de-interlacing.
As Apple writes in the Compressor User Manual:
*Automatic button:* When this button is selected, Compressor analyzes the transcoding job (the source media file and the applied setting), and then automatically determines the appropriate Frame Controls attributes. For more information, see About the Automatic Settings.
In Automatic mode, Frame Controls technology is engaged in the following two types of transcodes only:
• Transcoding from high definition (HD) sources to standard definition (SD) MPEG-2 output files
• Transcoding from interlaced sources to H.264 for DVD Studio Pro and H.264 for Apple Devices (progressive) output files
Automatic mode when encoding to SD MPEG-2 does not necessarily de-interlace. You can open your .m2v-file in e.g. MPEG Streamclip and hit "cmd+i" to view info about the file. There you can double check if your finished file is interlaced or not and what field order it is set to.
You can learn more about *Frame Controls* by reading this excerpt from Apple Pro Training Series: Compressor 3.5 Quick Reference Guide, by Brian Gary.
A really helpful tip, is to set an in- and out-point in your Preview window in Compressor to see test results quicker. Testing different settings on long clips is both unnecessary and boring. Select about 10 to 30-seconds from an area in your clip that shows variety in your video (both fast moving and normal scenes).
Video compression, especially for web and DVD, is all about testing to find the optimal settings for best possible quality/filesize ratio. Almost every video source is unique, and should be looked at and tested with different settings depending on both source quality and content.
Hope this helps

Frame Controls-Best for All ?

Hi there,
Will you select "BEST" for all to get a better quality for your Final Master Clip?
BTW, it takes very long for the conversion...will you recommend it?
Thanks

Better is ok for all around uses...
BEST is if your deinterlacing, and you still get deinterlacing artifacts when using BETTER setting. It is best to take a small section (30 seconds) of the video were interlacing shows on the computer screen and do a test between the BETTER and BEST setting.
The BEST setting can add a considerable amount of processing time. A 20 minute video can take the weekend to process depending on the computer you use.
The FAST setting is (IMO) useless and MPEG-Streamclip is the better tool if you want fast processing.
http://www.squared5.com/
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From page 258 of the User Manual:
Fast (Line averaging): This option averages adjacent lines in a frame.
Better (Motion adaptive): This option offers good-quality deinterlacing for areas of
the image that are in motion.
Best (Motion compensated): This option offers higher-quality deinterlacing for areas
of the image that are in motion.
Warning: Using all Best settings may result in unexpectedly long processing times. If
you are reducing the frame size in addition to deinterlacing the frame, Fast or Better will
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Mixed frame rates: settings to convert 29.97 to 23.98?

I'm editing a family documentary and unfortunately have interviews filmed from two angles on XDCAM at 23.98P and on AVCHD at 29.97P. Other than the second angle, most of the footage is from the XDCAM, so I'd like to harmonize the footage at 23.98.
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Although converting 23.976 to 29.97 happens every day with excellent results, I can't imagine successfully converting 29.97 to 23.976. If as you say these are interviews with VERY little movement you may not notice the video jumping forward every time a frame is deleted.
I would add 3:2 pull-down to the 23.976 to make it 29.97 interlaced (very smooth) and edit those along with the 29.97p into a 29.97 interlaced sequence.

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In brief: QuickTime on Lion loads and appears to play videos for me, but I can't access any of its frame controls. I can't resize the window, I can't minimize or maximize it, I can't close it, and I can't drag it. Attempting to click any of the associated controls simply brings the Finder to the foreground. Quicktime will then not respond to any further mouse clicks untill I click its icon in the Dock and force it into the foregroud.
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