Comments on: Squeeze It! http://www.dallasfcpug.org/2008/06/28/squeeze-it/ the official website of the dallas final cut pro user group Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:43:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Josh Mellicker http://www.dallasfcpug.org/2008/06/28/squeeze-it/comment-page-1/#comment-16 Josh Mellicker Sat, 15 Nov 2008 01:11:30 +0000 http://studio006.wordpress.com/?p=16#comment-16 I have been using DV Kitchen for all encoding and getting much better quality results (good thing, since I designed it :-) ). It is not faster, however, in my situation I prefer quality over speed, your situation may vary. There is a free 20-day trial so you can compare the encoding quality and speed as well as check out SampleLab, TimeFreezer and the other cool features. We just got killer reviews in MacUser UK and Ken Stone's site (republished on LAFCPUG also). more info: http://www.dvcreators.net/dv-kitchen/ I have been using DV Kitchen for all encoding and getting much better quality results (good thing, since I designed it :-) ). It is not faster, however, in my situation I prefer quality over speed, your situation may vary.

There is a free 20-day trial so you can compare the encoding quality and speed as well as check out SampleLab, TimeFreezer and the other cool features.

We just got killer reviews in MacUser UK and Ken Stone’s site (republished on LAFCPUG also).

more info: http://www.dvcreators.net/dv-kitchen/

]]> By: Kevin Mote http://www.dallasfcpug.org/2008/06/28/squeeze-it/comment-page-1/#comment-7 Kevin Mote Sun, 13 Jul 2008 14:59:44 +0000 http://studio006.wordpress.com/?p=16#comment-7 La vie!—ha! That's good info. Yes, I've had a love—hate relationship with Compressor myself. But since I had to re-install every shed of FCS about 3 months ago because of a boot drive failure, there's been a lot more love. That was one boot drive failure that had an upside. Would Squeeze allow my posts to Vimeo look better? I see people's posts to Vimeo that look magnificent, while mine look like I shot the footage with a VHS camera. La vie!—ha!

That’s good info. Yes, I’ve had a love—hate relationship with Compressor myself. But since I had to re-install every shed of FCS about 3 months ago because of a boot drive failure, there’s been a lot more love. That was one boot drive failure that had an upside.

Would Squeeze allow my posts to Vimeo look better? I see people’s posts to Vimeo that look magnificent, while mine look like I shot the footage with a VHS camera.

]]> By: Ryan http://www.dallasfcpug.org/2008/06/28/squeeze-it/comment-page-1/#comment-6 Ryan Sat, 12 Jul 2008 13:44:07 +0000 http://studio006.wordpress.com/?p=16#comment-6 Kevin, We wanted to stay with a .mp4 file using the h.264 codec to have the most amount of compatibility between Mac and PC devices/computers. The problem is Compressor does .mp4 files using a generic mp4 codec, not the h.264 codec. If you want the h.264 codec out of Compressor then you have to use a .mov or .m4v extension. Neither of which we wanted to go towards. An additional issue that we faced was overall data rates. When using Compressor's .m4v the lowest data rate it would allow was somewhere around 1100K (or about 1MB/s) which would make our files much larger and increase our overall download bandwidth which ups our overall costs. We wanted a data rate lower than half that (around 400K). We could have done it with a .mov file and then used some terminal programs to "re-wrap" the file without recompressing it (check out: http://www.3am.pair.com/QTCoffee.html ). But that was additional steps I didn't want my whole team to have to deal with. So the benefit of Squeeze was it could produce a .mp4 file using the h.264 codec and that it can utilize a multi-core machine. The benefit of Compressor using QMaster (if you can get it to work right) is that it can harness the power of multiple macs across your network to transcode files. But currently Compressor doesn't do the type of file we need. C'est la vie! Kevin,
We wanted to stay with a .mp4 file using the h.264 codec to have the most amount of compatibility between Mac and PC devices/computers. The problem is Compressor does .mp4 files using a generic mp4 codec, not the h.264 codec. If you want the h.264 codec out of Compressor then you have to use a .mov or .m4v extension. Neither of which we wanted to go towards.

An additional issue that we faced was overall data rates. When using Compressor’s .m4v the lowest data rate it would allow was somewhere around 1100K (or about 1MB/s) which would make our files much larger and increase our overall download bandwidth which ups our overall costs. We wanted a data rate lower than half that (around 400K). We could have done it with a .mov file and then used some terminal programs to “re-wrap” the file without recompressing it (check out: http://www.3am.pair.com/QTCoffee.html ). But that was additional steps I didn’t want my whole team to have to deal with.

So the benefit of Squeeze was it could produce a .mp4 file using the h.264 codec and that it can utilize a multi-core machine. The benefit of Compressor using QMaster (if you can get it to work right) is that it can harness the power of multiple macs across your network to transcode files. But currently Compressor doesn’t do the type of file we need. C’est la vie!

]]> By: Kevin Mote http://www.dallasfcpug.org/2008/06/28/squeeze-it/comment-page-1/#comment-5 Kevin Mote Sat, 12 Jul 2008 02:38:52 +0000 http://studio006.wordpress.com/?p=16#comment-5 Ryan, Just curious—why not let Compressor do this? Doesn't QMaster allow you to set up a cluster that lets you use all of your processors? It's been my understanding that if you export out of FCP as reference movie, QMaster's cluster settings can work even faster. Ryan,
Just curious—why not let Compressor do this? Doesn’t QMaster allow you to set up a cluster that lets you use all of your processors? It’s been my understanding that if you export out of FCP as reference movie, QMaster’s cluster settings can work even faster.

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