Usig compressor to convert 29.97 to 23.98 ??

HI, Is compressor the tool to use to convert 29.97 to 23.98. I have FCP studio and i feel like the posts about this are for people with older versions of FCP. I don't need a plug in, right? I should be able to do this in studio. Second question is How. When I select the particular clip in the brower it does let me send to compressor? thanks kellam

Not sure what you mean by problems at a later time. But I use a 3 button mouse and just right click on the sequence in the browser and select export to Compressor. Not the fastest, but causes the least problems for me.
You use Cinema Tools to remove pulldown from 24pn material (like telecined film originated material). If your material is native 29.97 I believe you'd need one of the Nattress filters available here:
http://www.nattress.com/

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Im having problem with the dvd quality, I'm using compressor to convert the video fils from apple prores to mpeg2 .It doesn't matter how long my video is even if its just 5 minutes I'm getting cut edges in the video , does anyone have any idea ?

Im having a problem with the dvd quality, I'm using compressor to convert the video fils from apple prores to mpeg2 .It doesn't matter how long my video is even if its just 5 minutes I'm getting cut edges/lines in the video specialy if i have titles it comes up really bad , I took the same video to a friend of mine who have PC and he uses Encore , did the encoding there and it was just fine no problems! BTW I tried using doferent setings in compressor from CBR and VBR I even pushed up the setings to 8 or 9 BR and still no luck !
does anyone have any idea ?
Thanks in advence ...

Let's focus attention on just the Sony. (What model and what resolution are you shooting?)
For now, I'll assume you're shooting 1080i.
Take a representaive clip into a new sequence. Add a title.
In your sequence, make sure field dominance is set to Upper.
Set render settings to Pro Res 422.
After rendering, export QT self contained.
Import into Compressor (I'm now referring to v3.5).
Select the 90 minute Best quality DVD preset.
Open frame controls and turn on (click the gear icon). Set Resize filter to Best.
Submit burn and check quality on TV.
Good luck.

No audio when using Compressor to convert DVD .VOB files to Quicktime...

Hello,
From a previous post that I found, my understanding is that you can use Compressor to convert DVD .VOB files to quicktime files. I've tried this several different ways but I only get video and no audio. Is it possible to also get audio?
Thanks!

Hi:
As far as I know, no way to make ANY conversion from a VOB file using Compressor.
You can download MPEG Streamclip for free and extract the elementary streams from the VOB files . . . of course, you can do it from your own DVDs, not from commercial ones.

Just how much better is nattres than compressor in converting pal - NTSC?

I am on the verge of buying the Nattres plugin but before i do i would like to know how much better it is than compressor. I did some test with compressor and the results are unacceptable. I have to send some stock footage to America from here in South Africa. The footage im trying to convert is half Betacam half DVCPROHD.
Thanks
Andre
I have posted this thread in the compressor forum but didnt quite get the answer i was looking for, although it was helpful

I don't think Natress is over $75.
Natress is the only plug-in or software that has given us consistent results.
It also does PAL to NTSC or NTSC to PAL.
Rendering can take a while depending on the length of your sequence.
Edit in PAL and when you are done duplicate your sequence and make an NTSC version. You can then avoid having to convert footage that doesn't end up in your final sequence.

Why is the image brighter after converting H264 to Apple Prores 422 in Compressor ?

Hello -
Very strange situation, keep reading please!
I am using Compressor to convert H264 1080p footage from a D600, to Apple Prores 422HQ for editing. Normal.
I am using the default Quicktime Settings named "Apple Prores 422 (HQ)".
The converted file is a bit brighter than the original... Why is this even possible! I find this a bit problematic because I'm loosing some details in the whites, at a way too early stage for signal alterationt!
So I tried different other stuff that you will find interesting:
• changing gamma correction in the codec settings had no effect
• I can see the change happening already in the Preview window
• and this is the best one : if I apply a resize, to anything, like 1919 X 1079, or 1280 X 720... then the color change does not occur, even when exported! If I apply a resize to the same size, then the output is brighter again.
I am proof checking in Quicktime 7 of course, with "FCP compatibility" enabled and disabled.
I know this is a hot topic and there are many unsolved aberrations like this around this topic, but maybe there is something I don't get ?
Thanks

Apple are so thoughful for making us loose the discussion we clicked on after we log in..
Alex CVideo > I am so happy that you wrote about this
Yes: this is the exact problem. Very nice screencap, this is exaclty it (even if I said it 2 times now).
I have a little secret for you:
I read in another discussion saying that he had this problem too.
The only time I ever did in the entire Internet.
here it is :
this guy re-installed her entire system
mac os + final cut systems
and this time it worked.
Right now I prefer to convert to 1079p than risk this entire operation even it it worked 100% lol
At least not right now
but maybe you will be boosted up enough to give it a try
Good luck to all of us and thanks again to Apple for these great moments we spend together talking about their wonderful mysteries

Compressor adding white frames at the head of the movie converted

i used compressor to convert footage from mp4 to Apple prores 1024x576 16x9 and also change different frame rates to 25 fps
I resized all the big videos to 1024x576 and maintained the smaller videos like 640x360 in its original size as i will composite them together to maintain quality.
everything went well as compressor makes a very good job in resizing and frame rate coversion.
i noticed that compressor added at the head of the movies a white frame on most of the converted movies
and after importing the movies to fcp 6 i found that every time i use a movie with a white frame in the head Fcp crashes.
is it because of the frame rate as i noticed that the white frames are in the movies with for example 23.98 that were conformed to 25.
i cannot edit because of fcp quits.

What do you have the most of? 1920, 1280, SD?
What is the final deliveable? web, broadcast, blu-ray, SD DVD?
Maintaining the aspect ratio can be done in your sequence settings whether your sequence is HD or SD.
640x360 will still only fill about 1/2 of the 1280x720 screen at 100%.
You can scale it to fill the screen but you will take a quality hit.
In most cases putting 1920 in a 1280 sequence isn't going to make the baby jesus of quality cry.
In my experience upscaling SD outside of FC in another program doesn't usually help with quality.
I do the scaling in FC and know that I will have to render. I would still use Compressor for the frame rate codec conversion but do not change the source size unless you are converting to a more friendly broadcast size.
You may want to consider that SD footage doesn't have to fill the entire screen.
You can do other treatments to the footage so that you still fill the entire screen but the actual footage isn't being scaled to fill the entire screen. Blurred footage, stills, etc for a background can help with this.

Convert DV/MPEG4 to WMV within Final Cut/Compressors/QTime??

Hi
I have a 45 second piece of corporate footage which originates on DV.
For internet streaming and for forwarding by email I 'reduced' this to MPEG4 and the quality looked great and it plays fine on most peoples systems.
However my problem is this: Some of the email recipients who are PC based are a bit old and unwieldy. They have only Windows Media Player on their system and are unwilling or unable to download Quicktime or Realplayer... Tsk, i know, don't ask!!. Anyhow how does one go about outputting the necessary file so that it becomes a WMV. Can I do this using the conversion tools on the Final Cut Bundle or should I be looking to other readily available tools to do this?
From the bit of searching I've done online one popular way of creating a true .wmv file is to use Quicktime Pro and software called wmv-9 available from Popwire. Does anyone have any experience of this before I shell out to buy it.
As a work-around for the time being I converted the MPEG4 file to an .mpg file using Toast's VCD creation facility. I found that the .mpg file generated will play in Windows Media Player and RealPlay but not in older versions of Quicktime.
So basically I have an MPEG4 file that plays in Quicktime and RealPlayer (..but not in any Windows MP) and a .mpg file that will play in Windows MP and RealPlayer but not all Quicktime Players.
Is there a file format I can convert it to (..or force it to) that is more universally accepted by all 3 main media players. I have used ffmpegX in the past for other conversions but this time around it does seem to be suitable.
If the bundled encoders can do the job what output settings, codecs etc should I use in Compressor, Quicktime Converter etc to achieve this?
Many thanks in advance for any help anyone is able to contribute.

An easy solution is be to use a Windows system with an analog video input card. Connect your Mac to your DV device, then connect the DV device's analog outputs to the Windows system. On the Windows system, download and install the free Windows Media Encoder from Microsoft. Use it to convert the feed from FCP's timeline to WMV format in real time.
-DH

How can I convert MPEGs without losing quality?

Hi Guys
Ok, to start, I have a MAC OS X 10.4.11/ Final Cut Pro 5/ new 1TB external hard-drive/ from UK
So, I am new to FCP and not very tech savvy. Please be gentle with me....
Basically, I have some video files I would like to edit on FCP. They are MPEG2 files on my computer (I don't have access to the camera anymore). I realise that you can't edit MPEGS on FCP so I need to convert them to an appropriate format.
I have tried to convert them to something usable by using 'Mpeg streamclip' but it says I have to install (and pay for) the 'MPEG-2 playback component' to convert MPEG2s. I have therefore used iSquint to convert the MPEG2s to MP4s, which I then convert to DVCPRO50 on 'Mpeg streamclip'!
This worked, BUT, the quality is really compromised. The DVPRO50 video is less sharp and the colours are drained in comparison to the original MPEG2 vids. Considering the camera I used was quite bad in the first place, I really can't afford to lose any picture quality. *SO, is there any way I can convert the MPEG2 video clips to a usable format that I can edit on FCP without compromising the quality?*
sorry it's long-winded but I wanted to include all the information!! CHEERS!
_NOBODY TRY AND SELL ME ANYTHING- I'M NOT BUYING IT._

If you have Final Cut Pro, you should have the mpeg2 component. I understand it is removed in some cases during upgrades. Do a search and you should find the instructions for reinstalling it. (edit: the nice poster just above this post provided the link to mpeg streamclip site where you can find directions for reinstalling the mpeg2 component.)
Once you have the QT mpeg2 component reinstalled, use either mpeg streamclip or compressor to convert the material to whatever codec makes sense - most likey DV/NTSC (or DV/PAL) Quicktime. DV50 won't help matters unless you are planning to composite text or do some color correcting. The additional chroma depth in its 4:2:2 format will assist there. If you are simply doing cuts, DV's 4:1:1 is fine.
SO, is there any way I can convert the MPEG2 video clips to a usable format that I can edit on FCP without compromising the quality?
No. All transcoding will affect the image some. Your material will take at minimum 3 hits. The lousy camera>mpeg2 encoding>transcoding to an editable format.
NOBODY TRY AND SELL ME ANYTHING- I'M NOT BUYING IT.
This is rather rude and doesn't make a compelling first impression.
x
fwiw - you have a Mac, not a MAC. A MAC is the Media Access Control address. You can read all about it HERE.

HELP: I have an impossibly long rendering time after converting .MP4 files from Go Pro Camera to .MOV on Final Cut Pro 7. PLEASE ADVISE.

I am working on a project and shot guerilla style footage with a Go Pro camera, which produced .MP4 files incompatible with FCP7. When I converted the files to .MOV, I realized the rendering time in the sequence editor is impossibly long. I am working with a deadline and the rendering time exceeds the deadline, let alone editing time. Suggestions???

Telling us you converted to .mov doesn't tell us much. MOV is a container that supports a very wide range of codecs. It is the specific CODEC that matters.
You most likely did not convert the material to a FCP7 native format. ProRes is recommended and, given the compression of the GoPro, ProRes LT would be the best choice.
Use Compressor to convert everything to ProResLT and life will be much simpler.
x

AVCHD Format Convert to DVD

Can Compressor 4 convert an AVCHD format to DVD format? Or is there another suggested program that will work?
I have video of my wedding that I need to get off my camcorder and am looking into options of how to accomplish this on my iMac.

Yes.
Russ

Compressor DPX output from Prores (4444) QT is washed out, can I fix this?

Hi all,
I've been trying to use compressor to convert quicktimes to DPX, but have noticed that the DPX files rendered out are all washed out.
I imagine this is because compressor is doing a video/lin to log conversion. Is there anyway to avoid this? I simply want compressor to do a file conversion so that the DPX look as closeas possible to the original prores source.
I've looked through the settings, but there isn't much to play with. Anyhelp would be very much appreciated.
JT

plus one. for now i use color, works well actually but being able to export "linear 0-1024" dpx from the fcp timeline would be nice, and of course saves a render step. gluetools seems to work but unless you use it a lot a bit too expensive.
/mattias

Compressor outputs pixelated H.264 video when using a virtual cluster

Hey all,
So for some reason, when I use compressor to convert my HDV .mov file to H.264, if I am using a virtual cluster (8 core Mac Pro5,1)the end product comes out pixelated. However, I just tried again without the virtual cluster, and it came out normal as usual. Anyone know what I am missing? Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Whoops, I'm clearly not paying attention. The images are a little small so it's hard to see, but the first image is without the quick cluster, and the second is with the quick cluster

Is it normal for Compressor and FCP to analyse an imported progressive H.264 movie as interlaced?file

I am worried my programs are corrupt, because FCP tells me my progressive H.264 file is interlaced (upper first) and Compressor analyses the same movie as bottom first. It should be progressive! Why are they not telling me it's progressive, and why both different to each other? Is it because theyn can't analyse a H.264 file correctly?! Please someone tell me what's going on!
Thanks, Syd

Hi Shane, thanks for replying.
The reason I imported the H.264 movie into FCP was to add a short logo clip to the end of it, which was requested after I had exported a self-contained movie from my timeline and already started converting in Compressor... it took 60 hours to deinterlace (set to Best) and convert to H.264 all in one Batch (using only a single target...I did everything in one target, rather than chaining). I know you can't edit in H.264, but I thought adding something to the end and then re-exporting to H.264 might work...
anyway, that's why I imported it, and then noticed that FCP analysed it as being still interlaced... So it occurred to me to check the movie Compressor had exported by importing it back into Compressor to look at what the A/V attributes tab of the inspector said... and it said there it was progressive. So now I was worried my programs were disagreeing, so I went back to square one, converted my original footage to Pro Res in Compressor, then ran that Pro Res footage through Compressor to de-interlace, then reconnected media in my FCP timeline, so that all the clips in the timeline were now progressive. Then I exported that as a self-contained movie and imported into Compressor to convert to H.264. Finally, knowing no other way to analyse the footage, and also wanting to see what FCP would make of it, I imported the movie into FCP, and found the result I put in the first post of this thread... so tried analysing in Compressor again, and found that Compressor thinks it is as I wrote in the first post above.
So now Compressor tells me the file it previously converted to progressive isn't progressive, and thinks it has a different dominant field to the one FCP thinks it has, even though the first time I ran this movie through Compressor it analysed its own result as progressive... so I feel these incompatible analyses are possibly a symptom of something wrong?
How can I analyse a H.264 file if neither FCP or Compressor can do it?

Compressor for JVC files, good work takes time?

Hi,
I am using Compressor to convert my JVC footage (*.TOD, 1080P output) into ProRes 422 (HQ) before importing into FCP 7 (being "native" to FCP). Trying to keep the quality maximal.
Up to now I found no other way than to first convert to h264 *.MOV (for which PavTube TOD Converter gave me much better results than MPEG Streamclip, but maybe I got lost between those millions of settings). Then I use Compressor 3.5 to further convert to ProRes. Files have been compressed first (about one third of original size), but during the Compressor process they get decompressed again (about ten times). Wonder if I loose a lot of quality in the process?
Besides, Compressor is taking forever to do the job. Once the batch is running, it is relatively fast (multithreading is still another age), compared to preparation of the batch, even on low priority. Dropping more than ten files onto the droplet makes it stop responding for 15 minutes, then submitting takes another five. Is there a better way to make the process smooth and quality preserving?
Has any of you experienced users a clue for me? I would be very grateful, meanwhile I keep crawling on with my superfast Mac.

Hi Zak,
Sorry for not coming back before, I was away for some time. Thanks for your answer. I tried very many settings in MPEG Streamclip, but most interesting will be to set up both MPEG Streamclip and PAVTube TOD Converter with the same settings. I took a clip of a Newspaper page plus fast movement of the camera, full daylight.
MPEG Streamclip:
1. Codec h.264, Qual 100%, B-frames, rate 25, Size 1920x1080 (16:9), Interlaced scaling, Reinterlace Chroma, Upper field first, then
2. Codec Apple PrpRes 422 (HQ) other settings same (except B-frames, greyed oput), then
3. Codec XDCAM EX 1080i50, B-frames, frame rate 50, others same
versus PAVTube TOD Converter
4. Codec h264 HD Video, 1920x1080, Rate 12000, frames 25, audio aac, 48 kHz, Bitrate 320000, Channels 2
Results:
1. Sharp, but interlace lines visible, motion blur
2. Sharp, but interlace lines visible, motion blur less
3. Less sharp, no interlace lines visible, motion blur
4. Sharp, no interlace lines visible, motion blur less.
It is clear to me, that 4. gives the better results. Be my guest to repeat the experiment, you can download a fully functional copy of PAVTube on http://www.pavtube.com/tod-converter-mac/ Only thing is a watermark in your output.
Please advise me if there are any flaws in my approach, I will be grateful for suggestions how to get (even) better results.
Re Compressor, it does its job well, but why the long waits, there must be smart programmers with Apple who can do better, or am I doing something wrong? I use a droplet which starts the program by itself. But twice submission plus waiting takes an hour for a complete folder of some 1,5GB of clips.

AC3 Encoding with Compressor 2

Hi all --
Anyone know why Compressor 2 won't convert my MPG audio streams to AC3?
I demuxed an MPG-2 program stream to .m2v and .mpa elementary streams.
The .m2v plays fine -- the .mpa must first be converted to 48kHz AIFF before Compressor will convert it to AC3.
Wish I could skip that intermediate step -- anyone know how?
Thanks -- Jerry
Dual 1.25GHz G4 Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Thanks everyone.
So here's a related question:
I've used MPEG Streamclip in the past --
When I do "Demux to M2V and AIFF" on a clip,
the AIFF comes out fine... but the M2V is a program stream, not elementary!
In other words, it's not a true demux, because the M2V still has an embedded audio stream!
Anyone know a fix for this, or can explain why this happens?
Thanks again for your support!
-- Jerry

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