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Old May 28th, 2005, 02:18 PM   #1
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Compressor 2.0 Break Ups

Using Tiger, FCP 5. The footage is downconverted HDV to DV wide via an FX1.
I am using the basic 60 minutes Best Quality Widescreen to convert to MPEG2. Parts of the image break up regularly as if I were receiving a very poorly transmitted signal.
I can export the project via Quicktime and it comes out fine.
Anyone experiencing this?
Any thoughts?

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Old May 31st, 2005, 07:57 AM   #2
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No Responses?

Is it that people are not experiencing this Macroblockiness or simply that no folks here have been using Compressor 2.0?
Curious to know.
I've trashed preferences.
Repaired Permissions and changed the field order...

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Old May 31st, 2005, 08:11 AM   #3
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Sorry, still using FCP 4.5/MacOS 10.3.8. I'm in the middle of a project and would rather read about all the issues you pioneers are having instead of experiencing them for myself! :-)
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Old May 31st, 2005, 09:25 AM   #4
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Compressor 2.0 Blocky

Sorry, still using FCP 4.5/MacOS 10.3.8. I'm in the middle of a project and would rather read about all the issues you pioneers are having instead of experiencing them for myself!


Fair Enough!

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Old May 31st, 2005, 05:08 PM   #5
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I've only tried a DVD once since upgrading and sure enough, I did get the blocky, artifacty looking junk on the screen. I went out to a QT file and then exported from QT and it was fine. Seems like we may have a bug...

By the way, H.264 rocks. This is the future. If you haven't downloaded QT7 and the HD trailers from Apple's site, do it now. QT 7 on 10.3.9 did not goof up anything on my computer including FCP and AVID Xpress DV. The trailers are amazing looking...~130 megs for a 1080i, 2 and 1/2 minute trailer. I just with we had a better name than H.264!

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Old May 31st, 2005, 06:37 PM   #6
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Two Workarounds

Found some perspective from other list serves and thought I would share:

1. 1-Pass CBR seems to work fine in Compressor 2 with downconverted footage. (This is second hand; I have not tested)

2. Making a self-contained FCP movie and then encoding and authoring in DVDSP with a 2-Pass VBR of your choosing also seems to avoid the macro blockiness. (This worked successfully for me: 25 second test clip)

Until Next Time,


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