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News on Compressor 2

RatVega
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May 25, 2006, 5:12 PM

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I was talking with Larry Jordan last night and he claims that the new UB version of Compressor 2 (as delivered in Final Cut Studio version 5.1) has been radically reworked internally and works very well. I haven't had a chance to verify this, but if you know who Larry Jordan is, you know why I felt it was worth mentioning. He's a highly respected trainer and FCP guru.

Gotta go - my system just broke and there are ones and zeros all over the floor! Tongue

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Bill Kinkle
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May 25, 2006, 7:17 PM

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Good to know. I have it sitting on my desk upopened since I got it with the 4.5 upgrade. I'll have to give it a whirl and see if it's better. Thanks.

mmlips
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May 25, 2006, 11:24 PM

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Are we talking compressor 1 or 2?

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RatVega
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May 26, 2006, 12:46 AM

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DOH! Compressor 2. My bad...

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Daniel
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May 26, 2006, 12:53 AM

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I can confirm this Rat..it just smoked through some hefty files in just over real time on my MBP

mmlips
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May 26, 2006, 1:20 AM

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Excellent! Just the reason I was looking for the do the UB 5.1 upgrade. Thanks for the info Rat!

Mark

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Scott S
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May 26, 2006, 3:31 AM

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No kidding? And the encodes looked good? No blocky problems on motion that everyone seemed to complain about?

Guess I better order the 5.1 update then.

Cheers,
Scott

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UberHomer
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May 26, 2006, 11:39 AM

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The transitions have been fixed but there are still slight encoding artifacts in Compressor, mainly misplaced macroblocks.

I haven't tested another bug, but hopefully Apple fixed the bug with the monitor not going to sleep while Batch monitor is in progress. This problems have not been fixed for over a year.

RatVega
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May 26, 2006, 2:36 PM

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The transitions have been fixed but there are still slight encoding artifacts in Compressor, mainly misplaced macroblocks.

Check to see if decreasing the bitrates slightly fixes this. I've always felt that the presets were a bit high.

I haven't tested another bug, but hopefully Apple fixed the bug with the monitor not going to sleep while Batch monitor is in progress. This problems have not been fixed for over a year.

I disabled all the automatic "sleep functions" and screensaver long ago... my system only takes a break when I tell it to!