Question about Final Cut Pro and Compressor - GoFuckYourself.com

Shoehorn! · 11-19-2008, 03:31 AM

How are you exporting your .mpg movies in Compressor? Are you using the MPEG-1 setting or something else and converting them?

The MPEG-1 versions only allow one size of the video, and its pretty small. How do I get my .mpg movies as bigger sizes?

Brad Gosse · 11-19-2008, 06:27 AM

Oh the dreaded mpeg-1 bug.

here is one workaround that may work. go to your library/application support/compressor folder and look for the mpeg-1 setting you want to fix, then open it with bbedit or another editor and look for the 320 and 240 variables. Change them to whatever you want and save.

I have moved to another clustering app for my mpeg-1 but that "should" work.

timebomb011 · 11-19-2008, 08:32 AM

try using mpeg streamclip, it's pretty dope.

are you using compressor through FCP? you may have to do an intermediate export to bring it in to streamclip to convert to mpeg.

Shoehorn! · 11-19-2008, 01:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Brad Gosse

Oh the dreaded mpeg-1 bug.

here is one workaround that may work. go to your library/application support/compressor folder and look for the mpeg-1 setting you want to fix, then open it with bbedit or another editor and look for the 320 and 240 variables. Change them to whatever you want and save.

I have moved to another clustering app for my mpeg-1 but that "should" work.

Cool, I'll check that out, thanks.

Is there any quality loss or pixelation when doing that?

Shoehorn! · 11-19-2008, 01:56 PM

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Originally Posted by timebomb011

try using mpeg streamclip, it's pretty dope.

are you using compressor through FCP? you may have to do an intermediate export to bring it in to streamclip to convert to mpeg.

Yeah I am exporting it right from Final Cut to Compressor.

What is streamclip?

peedy · 11-19-2008, 03:12 PM

people still use MPEG1?

Shoehorn! · 11-19-2008, 03:29 PM

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Originally Posted by peedy

people still use MPEG1?

I am just trying to get the videos to have a .mpg extension and play as .mpg videos. I don't care what codec or conversion I have to use to get them that way, I just need them that way.

Am going to try Brads recommendation and see if that does the trick.

Shoehorn! · 11-19-2008, 03:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by timebomb011

try using mpeg streamclip, it's pretty dope.

are you using compressor through FCP? you may have to do an intermediate export to bring it in to streamclip to convert to mpeg.

Just downloaded it and it seems to be working great.

Thanks for the help guys.

11-19-2008, 03:31 AM	#1
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Brad Gosse Confirmed User Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Carpal Tunnel Posts: 2,616	Oh the dreaded mpeg-1 bug. here is one workaround that may work. go to your library/application support/compressor folder and look for the mpeg-1 setting you want to fix, then open it with bbedit or another editor and look for the 320 and 240 variables. Change them to whatever you want and save. I have moved to another clustering app for my mpeg-1 but that "should" work. __________________ Free Clipart Last edited by Brad Gosse; 11-19-2008 at 06:27 AM.. Reason: spell

11-19-2008, 08:32 AM	#3
timebomb011 Confirmed User Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: the hammer Posts: 179	try using mpeg streamclip, it's pretty dope. are you using compressor through FCP? you may have to do an intermediate export to bring it in to streamclip to convert to mpeg.

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peedy Confirmed User Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Indiana Posts: 866	people still use MPEG1?